Ahead of the Curve?: UN Ideas and Global Challenges

About the Authors

About the Authors Louis Emmerij is Senior Research Fellow at The CUNY Graduate Center, where he is co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project. Until  he was special adviser to the president of the Inter-American Development Bank. Before that he had a distinguished career as president of the OECD Development Center, rector of the Institute for Social Studies in the Hague, and director of the ILO’s World Employment Program. Among his recent books are Economic and Social Development into the Twenty-first Century (Johns Hopkins University Press, ), editor; Limits to Competition (MIT Press, ), coauthor; Nord-Sud: La Grenade Degoupilée (First, ); Financial Flows to Latin America (OECD, ), coeditor; Science, Technology, and Science Education in the Development of the South (Trieste, ); One World or Several? (Paris, ), editor; and Development Policies and the Crisis of the s (OECD, ). Richard Jolly is Senior Research Fellow at The CUNY Graduate Center, where he is co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project,and Honorary Professorial Fellow at the University of Sussex. Until mid- he was special adviser to the UNDP administrator and architect of the widely acclaimed Human Development Report. Before this, he served for fourteen years as UNICEF’s deputy executive director for programs, and prior to that a decade as the director of the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex. Publications to which he has contributed include Development with a Human Face (Clarendon, ); The UN and the Bretton Woods Institutions: New Challenges for the Twentyfirst Century (Macmillan,); Adjustment with a Human Face (Clarendon,); Disarmament and World Development (Pergamon, ); and Planning Education for African Development (East African Publishing House, ). Thomas G.Weiss is Presidential Professor at The CUNY Graduate Center, where he is director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, co-director of the United Nations Intellectual History Project, and editor of Global Governance . From  to , as a research professor at Brown University’s Watson 255 Emmer 11 (239-260) FINAL 3/5/01 2:45 PM Page 255 256 About the Authors Institute for International Studies, he held a number of administrative assignments (director of the Global Security Program, associate dean of the Faculty, associate director), served as executive director of the Academic Council on the UN System, and co-directed the Humanitarianism and War Project. He has also been executive director of the International Peace Academy, a member of the UN secretariat , and a consultant to several public and private agencies. His latest books are Military-Civilian Interactions: Intervening in Humanitarian Crises (Rowman and Littlefield,); Humanitarian Challenges and Intervention (Westview,), d edition with Cindy Collins; and The United Nations and Changing World Politics (Westview, ), d edition with Roger A. Coate and David P. Forsythe. Emmer 11 (239-260) FINAL 3/5/01 2:45 PM Page 256 ...