Name
Simai, Mihály, 1935- (Interviewee)
Weiss, Thomas G. (Thomas George), 1946- (Interviewer)
Title
Oral history interview with Mihály Simai, 2000
Abstract
Early years: 1952 graduate of Budapest University of Economics with international studies degree; member of populist student group, People's College; Career: Department of International Politics and Economics assistant professor; 1959-1960 employee of ECE; 1964-1968 Centre for Development Planning, Projection, and Policies; 1993-1995 Director of the UNU's World Institute for Development Economics R esearch; member of UN Committee on Public Administration, UNICEF Executive Board, Committee on Development Planning, and member of Advisory Board of the UN Staff College; professor at the Institute for World Economics of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and the Budapest University of Economics; president of the Hungarian UN Association and the Hungarian National Committee of UNICEF; honorary president of the World Federation of UN Associations; author of and The Future of Global Governance and View from the 38th Floor, a sociography of UN; Themes: UN documents contraband reading in university; relationship with Prime Minister Imre Nagy; Yugoslavia report in 1956; Keynesian economics and western economic science; decolonization and economic independence; involvement in development economics and foreign trade; industrialization; UNITAR project on brain-drain; New International Economic Order (NIEO) and development decades; Soviet sphere of influence on the UN; innovation of NGO's; Soviet human rights performance; UN global conferences; relationship between academia and the UN; North-South divide in population, finance, technology, and environment; comparative analysis of Secretaries-Generals; Brentton Woods institutions and the UN system; involvement and leadership in UN University and UNU-WIDER (World-Institute for Development Economics Research); research fellow at U.S. Institute of Peace (USIP); Japan and UNU; collapse of Soviet economy; UN in transition and its post-Cold war vision and purpose
Collection Name
United Nations intellectual history project (UNIHP)
Subjects
Brain drain--Developing countries; Keynesian economics; Development economics; Non-governmental organizations; International finance; Human rights--Soviet Union; Hungary History Revolution, 1956; Soviet Union History 1985-1991; Simai, Mihály, 1935-; Nagy, Imre, 1896-1958; United Nations Officials and employees; United Nations History; World Institute for Development Economics Research; United Nations. Secretary-General; United Nations University; United States Institute of Peace
Format
oral histories; sound recordings
Genre
Interviews
Date
2000
Note (Biographical)
Director of the UNU's World Institute for Development Economics Research
Note
Interviewed by Thomas G. Weiss on July 9, July 10, and July 11, 2000
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
13685244
Persistent URL
https://dx.doi.org/10.7916/d8-y25t-fj44
Related URLs
Available digital content for this interview.