Kevin Clements is the Foundation Chair of Peace and Conflict Studies and Director of the New Zealand National Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies (NCPACS) at the University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. He was on the board of the European Centre for Conflict Prevention and was former President of the European Peace Building Liaison Office in Brussels.

He was the Vernon and Minnie Lynch Chair of Conflict Resolution at the Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution at George Mason University from 1994-2000 and was Director of the institute from 1994-1999. He is also the former Director of the Quaker United Nations Office in Geneva and Head of the Peace Research Centre at the Australian National University in Canberra.

Prior to this, he was Senior Lecturer in Sociology and was Coordinator of Peace Studies at Canterbury University, Christchurch, New Zealand. He has been an advisor to the New Zealand, Australian, British, Swedish and Dutch governments on conflict prevention, peace, defense and security issues and is currently advising the German Government and the OECD on states and violence.

Mr. Clements was also President of the International Peace Research Association (IPRA) from 1994-1998 and Secretary General of the Asia Pacific Peace Research Association.

He has written or edited 7 books and over 150 chapters/articles on conflict transformation, peace building, preventive diplomacy and development with a specific focus on the Asia Pacific region.