Richard Jolly

Richard Jolly

Sir Richard Jolly is co-director of the UN Intellectual History Project and former Assistant Secretary-General of the UN, holding senior positions in UNICEF and the UNDP for over 20 years. He is author of a 16-volume history of the UN’s contributions to economic and social development since its beginning in 1945, of which the final volume has just been published as UN Ideas That Changed The World. Three of the earlier volumes were recognised as outstanding academic books of the year.

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