Margaret Joan Anstee

June 25, 1926 (age 58)

Writtle, Essex, United Kingdom

She worked on operational programmes of economic and social development in all regions of the world, mostly with the United Nations Development Programme. From 1987-1992 she served as Director General of the United Nations at Vienna, Head of the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs and Coordinator of all United Nations narcotic drug-control programs. From 1992-1993 she was the Secretary General"s Special Representative to Angola. Margaret Anstee served successively as Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (United Nations Development Programme) in eight countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa. From 1974 - 1987 she occupied senior positions at the United Nations"s New York Headquarters. She was also given major responsibilities in a number of disaster relief operations (Bangladesh 1973, Mexican earthquake 1985, Chernobyl nuclear disaster 1991-1992, Kuwait burning oil wells 1991-1992) as well as special assignments for the Secretary General to assist countries in dire economic distress (Bolivia 1982-1992, Peru 1990-1992). In addition, she was involved in the design and implementation of several major reforms of the United Nations system. Since leaving the United Nations in July 1993, she has been a Special Adviser to the government of Bolivia on matters relating to development and international finance. In 1994 she wrote a report for United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on the technical cooperation needs of developing countries in the wake of the completion of the Uruguay Round and led an Inter-American Development Bank mission to Bolivia on socio-economic reform. She writes and lectures widely on the United Nations, particularly on issues related to development, peacekeeping, and United Nations reform. Since 1996 she has advised the Secretary General of the United Nations" Department of Political Affairs, on a pro bono publico basis, on operational aspects of post-conflict peace-building. She also chairs the Advisory Board of the Lessons Learned Unit of the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and for some years has actively taken part in practical training in peacekeeping techniques for both military and civilian personnel, including simulation exercises, in the United Kingdom, Sweden, South America and the United States, South Africa and other African countries.

Margaret Joan Anstee

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United Nations official

Background

Anstee, Margaret Joan was born on June 25, 1926 in Writtle, Essex, England. Daughter of Edward Curtis Anstee and Anne (Adaliza) Mills.

Education

Dame Margaret was educated at Chelmsford County High School for Girls and Newnham College, Cambridge, of which she is an Honorary Fellow, and at the. In 1993 she was awarded the Reves Peace Prize by William and Mary College (United States) and has Honorary Doctorates in the United Kingdom from the Universities of Essex (1994), Westminster (1996) and London (1998).

Career

She worked on operational programmes of economic and social development in all regions of the world, mostly with the United Nations Development Programme. From 1987-1992 she served as Director General of the United Nations at Vienna, Head of the Centre for Social Development and Humanitarian Affairs and Coordinator of all United Nations narcotic drug-control programs. From 1992-1993 she was the Secretary General"s Special Representative to Angola.

Margaret Anstee served successively as Resident Representative of the United Nations Development Programme (United Nations Development Programme) in eight countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa.

From 1974 - 1987 she occupied senior positions at the United Nations"s New York Headquarters. She was also given major responsibilities in a number of disaster relief operations (Bangladesh 1973, Mexican earthquake 1985, Chernobyl nuclear disaster 1991-1992, Kuwait burning oil wells 1991-1992) as well as special assignments for the Secretary General to assist countries in dire economic distress (Bolivia 1982-1992, Peru 1990-1992). In addition, she was involved in the design and implementation of several major reforms of the United Nations system.

Since leaving the United Nations in July 1993, she has been a Special Adviser to the government of Bolivia on matters relating to development and international finance. In 1994 she wrote a report for United Nations Conference on Trade and Development on the technical cooperation needs of developing countries in the wake of the completion of the Uruguay Round and led an Inter-American Development Bank mission to Bolivia on socio-economic reform.

She writes and lectures widely on the United Nations, particularly on issues related to development, peacekeeping, and United Nations reform.

Since 1996 she has advised the Secretary General of the United Nations" Department of Political Affairs, on a pro bono publico basis, on operational aspects of post-conflict peace-building. She also chairs the Advisory Board of the Lessons Learned Unit of the United Nations Department of Peacekeeping Operations, and for some years has actively taken part in practical training in peacekeeping techniques for both military and civilian personnel, including simulation exercises, in the United Kingdom, Sweden, South America and the United States, South Africa and other African countries.

Achievements

Margaret Joan Anstee has been listed as a noteworthy United Nations official by Marquis Who's Who.

Works

book
- The administration of international development aid,

Membership

Member United Oxford and Cambridge University.

Interests

Economics & socl developement. Writing, swimming, walking.

Connections

Father:: Edward Curtis Anstee Mills
Mother:: Anne (Adaliza) Mills

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