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"Prior to joining Unicef in 1985, Boudewijn Mohr was a senior international corporate banker in New York, first with Chase Manhattan Bank in Wall Street, and later at Société Générale's branch in midtown Manhattan. During that time he served on the Board of the First All Children's Theatre (First ACT) in Manhattan, was an active member of the US INSEAD Alumni Association, as well as the Dutch Financial Club. Joining Unicef in Geneva, his brief was to support its National Committees to diversify their sources of income, more specifically through designing strategies for building partnerships and raising funds with corporations in Europe. It was not until he reached Africa that Boudewijn Mohr began to feel professional satisfaction and fulfilment of a life's objective: public service in an international organisation ""in the field"". In the process he acquired more than 25 years of working experience in Africa. His role of a Unicef country programme and operational management specialist took him to some 36 countries on the African continent. Moreover he wrote extensively for Unicef, including Situation Analysis on children and women, mid-term reviews and official documents for Unicef's Executive Board. He wrote a series of feature articles in the Dutch daily NRC-Handelsblad on the sovereign debt crisis as it unfolded in the developing world in the 1980s. He is the author of ""The Language of International Trade"", published by Regents Publishing Co of New York (Hachette) in 1978. A national of the Netherlands, Boudewijn Mohr holds a Master degree in Law from Leiden University in the Netherlands and an MBA from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France."
Excerpt from a book review Tobias Denskus Senior Lecturer, Malm University https: //www.mah.se/english 8 June 2018 Writing about careers inside the UN system is a particularly fruitful sub-genre. Mohr's unique contribution to the genre lies in the fact that he was neither a senior executive of the organization nor did he work in particularly dangerous environments-being the country representative for Sao Tome & Principe has never been exactly a hardship post. But Mohr's reflections, as mundane as they sometimes must seem to an 'in-group' of international aid workers or -researchers, shed an interesting light on working in a bureaucratic framework under the leadership of the iconic Jim Grant. His memoir opens an interesting door to a time when UNICEF and a system of global governance expanded into a global enterprise to improve the lives of children from the perspective of someone who was close to the strategic center of the organization yet spent most of his fulfilling career a bit on the margins of global diplomacy. Mohr works at UNICEF at a time when today's notion of global governance comes into reality: There is the Bob Geldof-inspired Sport Aid event which leads to the Race against Time in 1986, 'the largest sporting event in history at that time' (p.99), global summits and a growth in national committees that contribute significant funds to the organization, in short, UNICEF as a 'brand' emerges and has done well ever since. It is his honesty and his unpretentious storytelling that turn the book into a real gem of the genre. What others have said A groundbreaking, inspirational book that will hook anyone working or thinking of working in the humanitarian sector, as well as those who love Africa. Using a personal, poetic and readable style that pays extraordinary attention to detail, Mohr candidly gives us an informative insight into the challenges and dilemmas faced in humanitarian work and the way top UN management decisions are taken within the context of momentous world events of that time. We meet people from all walks of life, from presidents to those working in remote communities, such as the sappers clearing landmines in Mozambique. We come to intimately know his adventurous family, colleagues and friends. I loved the book and was sorry when I finished reading it! Ruth Ayisi, Former UNICEF staff member and journalist/consultant From Wall Street to remote villages in Africa is a human adventure and true UNICEF story. A must-read for business people interested in a humanitarian challenge, newcomers to the United Nations and all others who care about Africa. J. Denis B lisle, Former Executive Director, International Trade Center (UNCTAD-WTO) and UN Assistant Secretary General
