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13 unusual facts about United Nations University


Bamidele Ojo

His book, Human Rights and the New World Order, is used by the United Nations University International Human Rights Course.

Dines Bjørner

Inter alia, he was responsible for establishing the United Nations University International Institute for Software Technology (UNU-IIST), Macau, in 1992 and was its first director.

J. Michael Adams

He was a member of the Governing Council of the United Nations University, Steering Committee of the World Bank's Researchers Alliance for Development and the Editorial Advisory Board for International Educator, the flagship bimonthly magazine of NAFSA: Association of International Educators.

Joseph Maina Mungai

Mungai was one of 24 selectees for appointment as council-members on the University Council of the United Nations University (UNU) in 1974,.

Joseph Melrose

Melrose currently serves Special Advisor to United Nations University Rector Prof. Dr. Konrad Osterwalder and as president of the National Model United Nations Board of Directors and is a professor of International Relations and serves as the current ambassador-in-residence at Ursinus College in Collegeville, PA.

Jyoti Kirit Parikh

She was a visiting professor at the Institute of Advanced Studies (IAS) of UNU, Tokyo (1995–96).

Louise Fresco

She was named a non-executive director at Unilever in 2009, is a Crown-appointed member of the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER), and a member of the Trilateral Commission and of the Governing Council of the United Nations University.

Monica McWilliams

She had also been associated with INCORE, a joint University of Ulster and United Nations University research centre for the study of conflict.

Remi Chandran

Remi Chandran is an environmental policy researcher who developed the Wildlife Enforcement Monitoring System (WEMS) initiative while working with the United Nations University (UNU), Tokyo in 2005.

Rowland Percy Moss

Rural energy systems in the humid tropics: proceedings of the First Workshop of the United Nations University Rural Energy Systems Project, Ife, Nigeria, 10–12 August 1978. Workshop of the United Nations University Rural Energy Systems Project (Ife, Nigeria, 1978.) Tokyo, Japan: United Nations University, c1980.

Rowland Percy Moss is an Economist and researcher of the United Nations University interested in the relationship between geography and wealth.

Scott McQuade

He is the former Chief of Communications at United Nations Volunteers, the focal point for volunteerism within the United Nations and was previously the head of United Nations University Press, a specialist publisher of peer-reviewed materials about issues of importance to the United Nations, its member countries, and their peoples.

Yozo Yokota

He became a Professor of Law in the Faculty of Law at Chuo University, Tokyo, and Special Adviser to the Rector of United Nations University.


Akino Memorial Research

The UNU Akino Memorial Research Fellowship is awarded for studies in the fields of human security and sustainable development in Central Asia and neighboring regions.

Gary P. Sampson

He also currently holds the Chair in International Economic Governance at the Institute of Advanced Studies at the United Nations University in Tokyo.

United Nations Decade of Education for Sustainable Development

In response to the DESD, the United Nations University (UNU) called for the development of Education for Sustainable Development (ESD) networks for the promotion of ESD, as well as being expertise centres for the research development of ESD.

Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives

Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives (ZERI) was established by Gunter Pauli in 1994 at the United Nations University (UNU) with the support of the Japanese Government.