...there is no tool for development more effective than the empowerment of women.

One has to have the strength of character to say the time has come to move on... unless you are a king.

I was an ordinary boy at school, a young man. In fact, what did the headmaster once say? "You're constantly challenging those in authority; questioning and challenging those in authority." Which was not really the way I saw it. I felt there were questions that had to be answered, and things that weren't quite right.

Young people - with their dynamism, their energy and their inherent understanding of our interconnected world - have much to teach us. Increased educational attainment, advances in technology and the spread of information have made this generation the best educated, most connected and most informed in history

UN is made even more complex by the constant interplay of politics and bureaucracy and can certainly be bewildering for a novice.

My intimate knowledge of the [UN] system allowed me to get things done despite the many obstacles.

I think the world has moved on.