Bruce Frederick Edward Jenks
OBE
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
served as director of the Bureau for Resources and Strategic Partnerships of the
United Nations Development Programme
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(UNDP) 1995 to 2009/2010.
Jenks holds a Ph.D. in International Relations from
Oxford University
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and Master of Arts degrees from
Cambridge University
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(United Kingdom) and
Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies
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, Washington, DC.
In 1981, Jenks joined UNDP and was assigned to a variety tasks. He was appointed director of budget in 1990 and as director of Office of the Administrator in 1993. He was appointed by the UN Secretary-General as the first director of the United Nations Office and UNDP Representative in Brussels in 1995.
Jenks was appointed
Officer of the Order of the British Empire
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and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...
(OBE) in the 2011 New Year Honours for services to the UNDP.
Jenks has been an adjunct professor at the Columbia University School of International and Public Affairs since 2010. He is also a visiting professor at the University of Geneva's International Organization MBA program. He is a fellow at the Center for International Cooperation (CIC) at NYU and has been a senior non-resident fellow at the Corporate Social Responsibility Initiative of the Harvard University Kennedy School of Government (2010–13).
In 2013 Jenks was appointed by the Secretary-General to be a member of the Council of the University for Peace. The Council elected him as Vice-President.
In 1985, he married Nancy Piper Jenks, a renowned specialist in international travel medicine and board member of the International Society of Travel Medicine. Speaking over five languages, she lecturers around the world on topics that include narrative medicine.
Jenks is the father of filmmaker
Andrew Jenks
Andrew Jenks (born March 5, 1986) is an American filmmaker.
Early life
When he was nine, his family moved to Belgium for two years.
Jenks attended Hendrick Hudson High School in Montrose, New York. When Jenks was 16 he founded the Hendrick Hu ...
.
Footnotes
British officials of the United Nations
Living people
Officers of the Order of the British Empire
Year of birth missing (living people)
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