What was your last assignment with UNICEF?
Special Advisor to the Regional Director for West and Central Africa. 2003-2004, Abidjan, relocated Dakar.
How old do you feel?
Closer to 100 than to 25, but inordinately fit to write and to listen to grandchildren.
Where do you live?
Between Abidjan and Louvain-la-Neuve.
What book do you currently read?
For whom the bell tolls, by Hemingway.
If you could travel without restrictions, where would you go?
Back to Minnesota - where I was a foreign student in High School - and then by foot ‘n car, from Nepal to Vietnam.
Your best experience with UNICEF?
Rep in Burkina Faso.
Your biggest challenge when working for UNICEF?
Changing assignments 8 times.
What is your biggest fear, in relation to the future of children? What is your greatest hope, in relation to children?
No fear, but unsure hope; still capable to resist, and to fall in love with beauty and the idea of Peace.
What is your one piece of advice you wish to give to the UNICEF Executive Director?
To stop substituting ourselves for others’s priorities.
Do you have any suggestions to improve XUNICEF?
Ludo Welffens can be contacted at: ludo.welffens@gmail.com
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