UNDP - Obama Presidency Oral History

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Jerome Sauvage

...role as deputy country director for the UNDP in India, where he had served sinc...
...got a job as a program officer with the UNDP right out of school, and I was sent t...
...economic development. Within UNDP , is it common to develop a regiona...
...because, you know, I had to reopen the UNDP agency—that's one thing. So it was ...
...made me want to ask—you worked for the UNDP at the time, so you're thinking about ...

...at all about what the US role at the UNDP might be under an Obama administration...
...the particular case of North Korea, the UNDP had closed its agency in North Kore...
...aware that my job, in reopening the UNDP office, I have two hats: UNDP, an...
...the UNDP office, I have two hats: UNDP , and United Nations coordinator. An...
...Nations coordinator. And the hat of UNDP was under extreme—not surveillance, bu...
...on a UN agency so far, felt that the UNDP had—unfortunately, had insufficien...
...the North Korean authorities had used a UNDP account to ship 2.7 million dollars t...
...in contravention of sanctions. And UNDP was not able to show that it had enoug...
...inside to prevent that misuse of the UNDP account. So I was very aware that w...
...place that led to the closing of the UNDP office? Right, right. So, let me bac...
...the investigation into North Korea—into UNDP operation in North Korea happened, an...
...Korea happened, and the closing of UNDP office is 2007. Two thousand seven t...
...very involved; really going after us. UNDP was not very savvy in dealing with th...
...[laughter]. They just got mad at the UNDP , and they said, “Guys, you're no...
...doing a good job.” So eventually the UNDP felt, “Okay, we can't show that ou...
...about the Americans looking at what the UNDP was doing. Did you interact with tha...
...first of all, I want to say, when the UNDP had to close its one office due to tha...
...and the Red Cross. I had to reopen the UNDP office. So first question is—well...
...problem. North Koreans were expecting a UNDP that was going to do development work...
...Committee for North Korea and the UNDP office, liaison office, in DC. And ...
...in Washington, as deputy director of UNDP . I thought a way to ask about this is...
...You'd spent your career with UNDP , and I wondered if th...
...billion dollars, and my agency at UNDP was getting sixty million, on goo...
...your new hat on as deputy director for UNDP . What was the partisan environmen...
...period, if there were any particular UNDP programs that were important, as yo...
...any mistake. It was by far the largest UNDP program in the world. And it was ver...

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