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Oral history interview with Mostafa Tolba, 2001.

Creator: Tolba, Mostafa Kamal
Project: United Nations intellectual history project (UNIHP).
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Phys. Desc. :Transcript 70 pages Sound recording 3 digital audio tapes
Location: Columbia Center for Oral History
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Biographical Note

Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme

Scope and Contents

Background and childhood: born 1922, Egypt, close family relation; education: Cairo University, Imperial College, London, Ph.D., 1949; career: United Nations Environment Programme [UNEP] deputy executive director, 1973, UNEP executive director, 1976-92, Cairo University professor emeritus of the Faculty of Science, Fellow of Imperial College, 1988, president of the International Center for Environment and Development, chairman of the Egyptian Consultants for Environment and Development, alternate member of Executive Board of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO]; themes: reminiscences of Great Depression, joining Muslim Brotherhood during adolescence, effect of Egypt-Iraq relations on professorship, decolonization of India, disparities between developed and underdeveloped nations in the UN, increasing importance of sustainable development in the UN, importance of global conferences, use of expert groups in the UN, reminiscences of being appointed deputy executive director of UNEP, placement of UNEP in Nairobi, current UN challenges, colleague reminiscences

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Copyright by the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, The City University of New York, 2002

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