IISRT Director Frank Owarish
One of a Kind: Learning the Secrets of World Leaders - Google Books Result
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Walter H. Diamond, Dorothy B. Diamond - 2005 - Business & Economics - 316 pages
In the dramatic setting of the UN Assembly, this group listened carefully to two
UN officials, Frank Owarish,
training director of the UN Institute for ...
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IISRT is directed by Frank Owarish
who holds several academic qualifications including Ph.D. in Management (Walden University)
who served at the United Nations for over two decades in various middle and senior positions including that of Director of Training of UNITAR (United Nations Institute of Training and Research)
(receiving WAFUNIF Award for outstanding services to the United Nations, go to www.wafunif.org click on Honorees, scroll down The WAFUNIF Awards)
who has taught at the undergrad and grad including the doctoral levels at several universities, including the University of Connecticut, Walden University, City University of New York, City College (Master's in International Relations: International Law, International Organizations, International Diplomacy) and John Jay College where he taught a wide range of courses of the MPA and MPA-IG, pioneered and taught courses in computer applications in management and criminal justice at the grad and undergrad levels, pioneered elearning; developed and taught new courses in international public administration, international oversight and prepared handbooks and ebooks for several courses he taught and who assisted in conducting conferences on oversight matters (national and international) in cooperation with the US-AIG and UN-OIOS
who is currently a senior faculty at Keller Graduate School of Management, Devry College of New York (a component of Devry University - a nationwide university institution) where he has taught and/or teaches Managerial Mathematics; International Business; Global and Domestic Security Management; Advanced Managerial Finance; Securities Analysis; Marketing Management; Global IT Outsourcing; Systems Analysis and Control (systems development); Networking Concepts and Applications; Strategic Management of Technology
who completed undergrad (law, economics, public administration) and grad studies (economics, finance, management) including a doctorate (economics) at reputable French educational institutions (Institut d'Etudes Juridiques affiliated to the University of Aix-Marseille; the International Institute of Public Administration affiliated to the University of Paris; the Center for Financial, Economic and Banking Studies; the Ecole Pratiques des Hautes Etudes affiliated to the University of Paris-Sorbonne)
who was a fellow at the University of Manchester, the London School of Economics, the University of Sussex-IDS and the Oxford University-Nuffield College
who completed the post graduate diploma in international law and international relations at the Hague Academy of International Law
who completed a joint Columbia University-Harvard University Program in Negotiation Techniques, winning as a prize an invaluable book from Prof. Fisher who autographed it as such
who has hundreds of publications (mostly at the United Nations which include articles, reports, studies, manuals, handbooks, workbooks, books including one entitled Computer-Communications Systems for the 21st Century (UNITAR) and ebooks
who undertook research in computer networking, supercomputers, computer security and completed several computer courses including web design and earned a Ph.D. in Computer Science/Engineering
who is affiliated to and has been affiliated to several learned organizations including member of the Academy of Management, member of the Engineering Society of Detroit, member of IEEE, fellow of the Royal Economic Society (UK), member of the International Association of Financial Engineers (IAFE), member of the New York Academy of Science
who has lectured at several universities including Georgetown University, Tuft University/Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Marist College, Rochester Institute of Technology, the Cligendael (The Hague)
who collaborated with AIT to conduct training workshops for executives (middle and senior) from leading US companies on a variety of topical subjects and for international delegates interested in learning about hi-tech
who has participated in hundreds of consultancy assignments including with Global Consultants on a variety of subjects which include improving Japan-US trade relations; who served as a director of the Association of World Free Trade Zones (AWFTZ) and as such promoted free trade and free trade zones and pioneered, wrote about and applied business diplomacy
who participated in working groups with leading universities in the Atlanta region contributing to the economic transformation of Romania to a market economy, the political transformation of Mongolia to a parliamentary democracy
who was a member of a group that worked with the police authorities of South Korea to deal with security questions including terrorism issues prior to the Olympic Games in South Korea to prevent the occurrence of sad events at the previous Olympic Games and as such earned an award from the police authorities
who participated in several United Nations missions to help improve national and international conditions of several countries including Benin, Chad, Congo (Zaire), Burundi, Rwanda, Uganda, Nigeria, Kenya, Tanzania, Malawi, Swaziland, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Morocco, Sudan, Somalia, Madagascar, Guinea, Angola, Mauritania, Gabon, Ivory Coast, Sao Tome, Ethiopia
who served in the UN Office for Financial Services (OFS), including in the Office of the Controller as a senior finance officer where he undertook studies aimed at improving the financial management systems of the United Nations, in the Office of the Budget as Chief of the Data Analysis and Systems Control Unit where led the transformation of a partly manual and partly computerized budgeting system to a fully integrated, fully computerized budgeting system, participated in improving the interfaces of the budgeting system with the accounting system and the preparation of timely reports (including OLAS) and transferring budgeting and accounting records from traditional paper print-outs to micro-films for management and auditing purposes and participated in the transformation of the OFS to the Office of Programme Planning, Budget and Accounts and in the efforts to link program planning with budgeting and who served as senior finance officer/investment adviser to the UN Treasurer and participated in efforts to improve the cash flow and investment management systems
who participated in a work group pf the UN that prepared empirical country profiles on problems faced by all developing countries in the world
who earned an award of outstanding international civil servants, at the same time that Marti Ahtisari and Boutros Boutros Ghali earned the same
who conducted in-depth evaluation of major United Nations programs (including human rights, peace-keeping, crime prevention and criminal justice) which led to significant improvements of these programs: these are three cornerstones programs in international affairs: developing peace among and within nations, developing an international law and order system, promoting human rights in the world
who won several awards at the United Nations for contributions to the Staff Incentive Program aimed at fostering improvements at the United Nations through proposals from the staff which led to measurable improvements
who has been serving as a Member of the UN Panel of Counsel for over two decades and as Member (judge) of the UN-JAB contributing to justice at the United Nations, defending cases with the UN Joint Appeals Board, the UN Joint Disciplinary Committee, the UN Administrative Tribunal, the UN ICJ (is a member of the International Bar); defending hundred of cases and 'won' 99% of them; served as a member of the UN Grievance Committee and helped resolving over thirty cases; taught a course in criminal law at John Jay College
who served as co-director of the UNITAR-UN Program in International Law and conducted lectures on the program at the ICJ in The Hague
who co-directed the UN-IMF-World Bank training program on key international issues for UN Delegates from the Second Committee
who conducted briefings of UN Delegates on IT matters helping them maximizing the use of such technologies
who served as President of the UN Central Examination Board applying UN General Assembly policy and developing procedures for conducting examinations for recruitment of professionals from countries under-represented in staffing at the UN and promoting serving UN staff members to the professional category; served on several specialized boards of examiners including administration, political affairs, legal affairs, security management; participated in the conduct of recruitment interviews in several countries including South Korea, Germany, previously known as Czechoslovakia, previously known as USSR, Vietnam, China, Brazil, Mauritania, Ivory Coast
who, as head of the training of trainers program at CAFRAD (UNDP/UNESCO Project) and as a staff member of the United Nations promoted the advancement of training and human resource development in the developing countries, prepared technical papers on the subject, conducted advisory services to several government and national training institutions and coordinated an inter-regional workshop on the training of trainers aimed at helping the developing countries to apply the training of trainers concept to leverage their human resource development