Overview

This is the biography of the woman who rose from poverty to become the first and, to 2003, only woman to reach the rank of Under Secretary General at the United Nations. For four decades, Dame Margaret Anstee served the United Nations both at the New York Headquarters and in some of the poorest countries of the world attempting to help the victims of war, poverty, and natural disasters. Her autobiography is an account of a remarkable life and the times in which she lived.

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Author:   Margaret Joan Anstee
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 13.90cm , Height: 3.50cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.816kg
ISBN:  

9780470854242

ISBN 10:   0470854243
Pages:   560
Publication Date:   28 March 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Out of Print
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

Dedication. The United Nations System. Preface. Map 1. Map 2. PART ONE. THE EARLY YEARS. Prelude. A Rural Childhood. Wartime Schooldays. PART TWO. FRESH FIELDS AND PASTURES NEW. The Groves of Academe. The Foreign Office. Land of the Morning. English Interlude. PART THREE. FIELD MISSIONS IN THE NEW WORLD AND AFRICA. The Athens of the Americas. The Purple Land. On Top of the World. At the Court of the Lion of Judah. PART FOUR. INTERLUDE IN EUROPE. 10 Downing Street 1967--68. 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. In the Shadow of the Atlas. Chile: Democracy Subverted. PART SIX. NEW YORK. New York I: UNDP Headquarters 1974--78. New York II: The Department of Technical Cooperation for Development (DTCD), 1978--87. Special Missions and Thwarted Ambitions. PART SEVEN. VIENNA. In Vienna Woods 1987--92. Debt, Development, Democracy and Disasters. PART EIGHT. PEACE--KEEPING. The Lands at the End of the World 1992--93. PART NINE. POSTSCRIPT. Life After the United Nations. Epilogue. List of Acronyms. Index.

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&#8230;the thrilling and inspiring autobiography of one of the heroines of the international system&#8230;a rare memoir&#8230; (The Sunday Times, 4 May 2003) <p> &#8230;an insightful anti-history of the cold war years, as well as a valuable account of the origins of modern development thinking... (Times Higher Educational Supplement, 23 May 2003) <p> '... it is a reminder of the distance that able women have had to travel to be allowed to perform the world's top jobs...' (Times Literary Supplement, 31 May 2003) <p> &#8230;immensely powerful&#8230;a fascinating account&#8230; The Observer, 20 July 2003) <p> &#8230;this powerful book could not have been more timely... (Manchester Guardian Weekly, 8 October 2003) <p> &#8230;I took an instant liking to the book&#8230; (The Bafuncs Newsletter, September 2003) <p> &#8220;&#8230;Please get this book and read all about it and everything else in this amazing biography&#8230;&#8221; (New World, January to March 2004)

Author Information

Dame 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--Generala 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 Ministera 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 Cartera s International Council for Conflict Resolution.

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