Occidental College
Diplomacy & World Affairs
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Student interviews document the impact of the Oxy at the U. N. program under the guidance of director Douglas Gardner. See the featured story on Fall 2012 Oxy at the U. N. participants in the Occidental Weekly.
Faculty Director
Douglas Gardner is the on-site faculty director of Oxy at the U.N. He brings expertise garnered through 30 years of service around the globe in the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP). Most recently he served as the New York-based UNDP deputy assistant administrator, focusing on policy development and implementation within UNDP’s 136 offices worldwide. His career as a field-based development practitioner started as a Peace Corps volunteer in Burkina Faso and included UNDP posts in Cambodia, the Ukraine and Mongolia. Contact: dgardner@oxy.edu
Assistant Director
A native of France, Jacques Fomerand studied law and graduated in political science from the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Aix en Provence. He completed his graduate studies at the City University of New York where he earned a Ph.D degree in political science with a specialization in comparative government and international organization. Joining the United Nations in 1977, Professor Fomerand followed economic and social questions in the Office of the Under-Secretary General of the former Department for International Economic and Social Affairs (DIESA). He was Chief of the Inter-Organizational Co-operation Section of DIESA when he was reassigned to the United Nations University in 1992. Contact: jfomerand@oxy.edu
Resources at Occidental
The faculty of the Diplomacy and World Affairs department are an invaluable resource about the academic requirements and content of the Oxy at the United Nations Program. In partnership with the DWA department, Marisa Grover Mofford in the International Programs Office coordinates the administrative aspects of the program, includingthe application process, pre-departure information and on-site vendor communications. Contact: moffford@oxy.edu
Internship Examples
- United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees
- World Tourism Organization
- United Nations Development Programme
- Phone: 323.259.2769
- Fax: 323.341.4940