Oral history interview with Mostafa Tolba, 2001
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- Name
- Tolba, Mostafa Kamal (Interviewee)
- Weiss, Thomas G. (Thomas George), 1946- (Interviewer)
- Title
- Oral history interview with Mostafa Tolba, 2001
- Abstract
- Background and childhood: born 1922, Egypt, close family relation; education: Cairo University, Imperial College, London, Ph.D., 1949; career: United Nations Environment Programme [UNEP] deputy executive director, 1973, UNEP executive director, 1976-92, Cairo University professor emeritus of the Faculty of Science, Fellow of Imperial College, 1988, president of the International Center for Environm ent and Development, chairman of the Egyptian Consultants for Environment and Development, alternate member of Executive Board of United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization [UNESCO]; themes: reminiscences of Great Depression, joining Muslim Brotherhood during adolescence, effect of Egypt-Iraq relations on professorship, decolonization of India, disparities between developed and underdeveloped nations in the UN, increasing importance of sustainable development in the UN, importance of global conferences, use of expert groups in the UN, reminiscences of being appointed deputy executive director of UNEP, placement of UNEP in Nairobi, current UN challenges, colleague reminiscences
- Collection Name
- United Nations intellectual history project (UNIHP)
- Subjects
- Depressions--1929--Egypt; Sustainable development; Decolonization--India; Developing countries Economic conditions; Tolba, Mostafa Kamal; United Nations Officials and employees; United Nations History; United Nations Environment Programme; Unesco. Executive Board; Jamʻīyat al-Ikhwān al-Muslimīn (Egypt)
- Format
- oral histories; sound recordings
- Genre
- Interviews
- Date
- 2001
- Note (Biographical)
- Executive Director, United Nations Environment Programme
- Note
- Interviewed by Thomas G. Weiss on May 18, 2001
- Note (Provenance)
- Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, Gift, 2009
- Language
- English
- Library Location
- Columbia Center for Oral History, Columbia University
- Catalog Record
- 13685480
- Persistent URL
- https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-an55-gx42
- Related URLs
- Available digital content for this interview.