Branislav GOSOVIC                                                

Born : Belgrade, Yugoslavia, 1940

Higher Education:
" Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, B.A., Political Science, 1962
" Belgrade University Law School, M.A., International Law, 1966
" University of California, Berkeley, Ph.D., Political Science, 1970

Teaching:
" Instructor, University of California, Berkeley, 1968-1969
" Visiting professor, International Economic Law Institute, Law School, Xiamen University, Fujian, P.R. China, autumn semester 2007

Career:
With the United Nations as staff member of:
" UN Nations Conference on Trade and Development UNCTAD, Geneva, Switzerland, 1971-1973
" UN Environment Programme UNEP, Nairobi, Kenya, 1973-1981
" UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean ECLAC, Santiago, Chile, 1981-1985
On secondment from the United Nations to:
" World Commission on Environment and Development WCED 1985-1986
" South Commission 1987-1990
" South Centre 1990-2006

Retired from the United Nations 2006, currently with:
" Development Alternatives Global DAG, Geneva, Switzerland, associated with Development Alternatives DA, New Delhi, India

Books and monographs published:

" "UNCTAD: North-South Encounter", International Conciliation, Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, No. 568, May 1968, 80 pp.
"  UNCTAD: Conflict and Compromise - The Third World''s Quest for an Equitable World Economic Order through the United Nations, Sijthoff, Leyden, 1971, 349 pp.
" The Quest for World Environmental Cooperation - The case of the UN Global Environment Monitoring System, Routledge, London and New York, 1992, 284 pp.
" "Six decades of North-South Development Cooperation/Conflict in the United Nations and beyond - An Introductory Policy Analysis and Overview of Developing Countries'' Collective Struggle for A New International Economic Order" Chinese translation, Journal of International Economic Law, Volume 15, Number 3, 2008, pp. 18-145, Peking University Press, Beijing.

Main articles:

" "On the creation of a new international economic order: issue linkage and the Seventh Special Session of the UN General Assembly" with John Gerard Ruggie, International Organization, Madison, Spring 1976, Vol. 30, Number 2, pp.309-346.
"  "Population-resources-environment-development interrelationships in the United Nations: in search of an approach", CEPAL Review, No. 23, August 1984, Santiago, Chile.
"  "Global Intellectual Hegemony and International Development Agenda", UNESCO International Social Science Journal, No. 166, December 2000, Paris.
"  "Yugo-nostalgie - for a Comprehensive Approach to the Problems of the West Balkans" in Inter-Ethnic Reconciliation, Religious Tolerance and Human Security in the Balkans, Proceedings of the Second ECPD International Conference, eds. T. Togo, J. Levett, N.P. Ostojic, pp. 111-139, European Centre for Peace and Development, Belgrade, 2007.
"  "Whither the United Nations at the Start of the 21st Century: An Institution for Changing or Extending the Old Global Order?", Nanqiang Lecture delivered at Xiamen University, Fujian Province, China, on 8 November 2007, Journal of International Economic Law, Volume 15, Number 2, 2008, Chinese translation pp. 1-14, English original pp. 15-32, Peking University Press, Beijing.

Areas of special policy and academic interest:

" Global development challenges; South-South cooperation and solidarity; North-South relations; Environment-development; United Nations, international organizations, global governance; Yugoslavia and post-Yugoslavia period.