UN Ideas That Changed the World

About the Authors

index 307 About the Authors Richard Jolly is co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project and Honorary Professor and Research Associate of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex, where he was director from 1972 to 1981. He worked for the UN as an Assistant Secretary-General for almost twenty years; from 1982 to 1995 he was Deputy Executive Director for Programmes for UNICEF and from 1996 to 2000 he was Senior Adviser to UNDP’s Administrator and principal coordinator of the widely acclaimed Human Development Report. Jolly has been a trustee of OXFAM, chairman of the United Nations Association-UK, and a council member of the Overseas Development Institute . In 2001 he was knighted by the queen of England for his contributions to international development. He has worked as an economist in some dozen countries and written or edited some twenty books and more than 100 articles with a special focus on adjustment with a human face, disarmament and development , human development, global and national inequality, and strategies of redistribution with growth. Louis Emmerij is Senior Research Fellow at The CUNY Graduate Center, where he is co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project. Until 1999 he was Special Adviser to the President of the Inter-American Development Bank. Before that he served as President of the OECD Development Centre , Rector of the Institute for Social Studies in The Hague, and Director of the ILO’s World Employment Programme. Among his recent books are Economic and Social Development into the 21st Century, editor; Limits to Competition, coauthor ; Nord-Sud: La Grenade Dégoupillée; Financial Flows to Latin America, co-editor; Science, Technology and Science Education in the Development of the South; One World or Several?, editor; and Development Policies and the Crisis of the 1980s. 308 index Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science at The CUNY Graduate Center and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, where he is co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project . He is President of the International Studies Association (2009–2010) and Chair of the Academic Council on the UN System (2006–2009). He has served as editor of Global Governance, Research Director of the International Commission on Intervention and State Sovereignty, Research Professor at Brown University’s Watson Institute for International Studies, Executive Director of the Academic Council on the UN System and of the International Peace Academy , a member of the UN secretariat, and a consultant to several public and private agencies. He has written or edited some thirty-five books and 150 articles and book chapters about multilateral approaches to international peace and security, humanitarian action, and sustainable development. His latest book is What’s Wrong with the United Nations and How to Fix It. Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss are co-authors of Ahead of the Curve? UN Ideas and Global Challenges (Indiana University Press, 2001) and, with Tatiana Carayannis, authors of UN Voices: The Struggle for Development and Social Justice (Indiana University Press, 2005). Both are volumes in the United Nations Intellectual History Project Series. 308 about the authors ...