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Never Learn To Type: A Woman At The United NationsStock informationGeneral Fields
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DescriptionA fascinating account of a remarkable life that took the author, through hard work and determination, from rural England to the highest ranks of the United Nations Reviews"...continues to leave her audiences breathless with intrigue." (Mid Wales Journal, August 2006) Author descriptionDame Margaret Anstee served the United Nations (UN) for over four decades (1952-93), and, in 1987, was the first woman to achieve the rank of Under Secretary-General. She worked on operational programmes of economic and social development in all regions of the world, mostly with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). From 1987-92 she served as Director-General of the UN at Vienna, Head of the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs and Co-ordinator of all UN narcotic drug control programmes. From 1992-3 she was the Secretary-General's Special Representative to Angola, the first woman to head a UN peacekeeping mission including its military component. Dame Margaret served successively as Resident Representative of UNDP in eight countries, in Asia, Latin America and Africa. From 1974-87 she occupied senior positions at UN headquarters in New York and was also given special responsibility for a number of disaster relief programmes, including the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, the Mexican earthquake of 1985 and the Kuwait oil wells of 1991. From 1967-8 Dame Margaret served as Senior Economic Adviser to Harold Wilson in the Prime Minister's Office of the Government of the United Kingdom. Dame Margaret was educated at Newnham College, Cambridge, of which she is an Honorary Fellow. She continues to work ad honorem for the UN and for the President and Government of Bolivia. Amongst other activities she is a member of Jimmy Carter's International Council for Conflict Resolution. Table of contentsDedication.The United Nations System.Preface.Map 1.Map 2.PART ONE. THE EARLY YEARS.1. Prelude.2. A Rural Childhood.3. Wartime Schooldays.PART TWO: FRESH FIELDS AND PASTURES NEW.4. The Groves of Academe.5. The Foreign Office.6. Land of the Morning.7. English Interlude.PART THREE: FIELD MISSIONS IN THE NEW WORLD AND AFRICA.8. The Athens of the Americas.9. The Purple Land.10. On Top of the World.11. At the Court of the Lion of Judah.PART FOUR: INTERLUDE IN EUROPE.12.10 Downing Street 1967-68.13. UN Reform: The Study of the Capacity of the UN Development System, Geneva and New York 1968-70.PART FIVE: RETURN TO THE FIELD: MOROCCO AND CHILE.14. In the Shadow of the Atlas.15. Chile: Democracy Subverted.PART SIX: NEW YORK.16. New York I: UNDP Headquarters 1974-78.17. New York II: The Department of Technical Cooperation for Development (DTCD), 1978-87.18. Special Missions and Thwarted Ambitions.PART SEVEN: VIENNA.19. In Vienna Woods 1987-92.20. Debt, Development, Democracy and Disasters.PART EIGHT: PEACE-KEEPING.21. The Lands at the End of the World 1992-93.PART NINE: POSTSCRIPT.22. Life After the United Nations.Epilogue.List of Acronyms.Index. |