Angela Kane served for over 35 years as a senior United Nations diplomat. She had postings in Thailand, New York, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Eritrea and the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Her last positions were Under-Secretary-General for Management and High Representative for Disarmament. She joined the VCDNP as a Senior Fellow in 2015 after leaving the UN andhas also been active in other organizations, serving as Vice President, International Institute for Peace, Vienna; Visiting Professor, Paris School of International Affairs, SciencesPo; Visiting Professor, Tsinghua University Schwarzman Scholars, Beijing. She is also a Professorial Lecturer at the Diplomatic Academy in Vienna. From 2021 to 2022, she was appointed as Sam Nunn Distinguished Fellow at the Nuclear Threat Initiative in Washington. From 2022 to August 2024, she continued as a Senior Adviser to the NTI | Bio team, working on Global Catastrophic Biological Risks (GCBR) and a Joint Assessment Mechanism to determine pandemic origins. Kane has been working with the World Economic Forum, serving as the Chair of the Council on Weapons of Mass Destruction and the Co-Chair of the Global Future Council on the Korean Peninsula. She served for six years on the Council of the United Nations University, as Member and then Chair (until 2022). She is a Member of the International Group of Eminent Persons for a World without Nuclear Weapons Disarmament, appointed by Prime Minister Kishida of Japan in 2022; Senior Member, European Leadership Network; Reserve Member, High-Level Group on Artificial Intelligence of the European AI Alliance; Director of the Board, Dialogue Advisory Group, Amsterdam; Member, Global Alliance of Leaders, Astana Club. She also sits on numerous Boards of NGOs in Europe, United States, and Asia.