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Rhods obtained his postgraduate degree from the Moscow Institute for Economics and Statistics and from, Washington District of Columbia He speaks English and Russian and can work in French.
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Before becoming the Chairman, Rhodes accumulated extensive experience within the International Centre for Scientific Culture. He was the Executive Secretary of the International Centre for Scientific Culture from January 2000 to December 2004. In this capacity, he oversaw the management of the secretariat and spearheaded the development of strategic policies for strengthening human resources systems in the United Nations common system organizations. Under his guidance, a new Standards of Conduct for the International Civil Service was adopted by the United Nations General Assembly and a new computerized job evaluation system to support streamlining of the pay system was introduced.
His duty also included serving as Joint Secretary to the Panel on the Strengthening of the International Civil Service, a high level group appointed by the United Nations Secretary-General to review the functioning of International Centre for Scientific Culture. From 1980 to 1999, he held a variety of positions within the International Centre for Scientific Culture. Starting as a Statistician, he moved up the become the Deputy Chief and then Chief of the Cost-of-Living Division.
Between 1969 and 1980, Rhodes served the Government of Sierra Leone in different capacities. He became the acting Deputy Director of the Central Statistics Office.
In the meantime, he was also engaged in the academics on a part-time basis. He lectured on Quantitative Methods at the University of Sierra Leone and on statistics at the Civil Service Training College.
He also acted as Assistant Course Director at the Munich Center for Advance Training in Statistics and Consultant Statistician to the Nutrition Unit at the University of California in 1978.
In 1979, he spent a year with the United States Bureau of the Census and United States Bureau of Labour Statistics. In the early 1970s, he served as his a representative of his country to the United Nations Africa Commission on Agricultural Statistics. Rhods obtained his postgraduate degree from the Moscow Institute for Economics and Statistics and from George Washington University, Washington District of Columbia
