Growing up -- Formal education -- Serendipity and international careers -- From 1945 through the 1950s : hope held high -- The 1960s : widening development avenues -- The 1970s : creativity confronts geopolitics -- The 1980s : development frustrated -- The 1990s and the dawn of the twenty-first century : renaissance and reform? -- A revolutionary idea : the international civil service -- The power of ideas and people inside the UN -- Blending outside intellectual energies -- The legacy and future intellectual challenges.
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