John Gordon

JOHN GORDON is a former diplomat; environmentalist, born in 1940 (near London). After Cambridge, Yale and LSE, he joined the UK foreign service and served in Budapest, Geneva, Yaounde, Brussels and Paris (UK Ambassador to UNESCO). Subsequently Deputy and Policy Director, Global Environmental Research Centre (London), Convenor of the UK civil society involvement in the 2002 Johannesburg Earth Summit, member of UK National Commission for UNESCO, President of the Council for Education in World Citizenship, adviser to and activist in various environmental groups. He is married to Jungian psychotherapist, photographer and sculptor Elizabeth and lives at Wallingford, Great Britain.

FORTY YEARS BACK – DIPLOMATIC MEMORIES OF BUDAPEST IN THE 1960S

We arrived in Budapest in a snowstorm in February 1968, dragging a four metre sailing dinghy behind us, to the bemused greetings of my future Embassy colleagues. There was almost no traffic. HOME LIFE We (Elizabeth, my wife, and I) lived in a one bedroom flat on the ground floor

2013.01.06.

A NOTE ON WESTERN INTELLECTUALS

As always I enjoy reading the Hungarian Review. The depth of its coverage puts many much wider circulation up-market intellectual magazines in West Europe to shame. Having visited, and admired, the House of Terror Museum in Budapest I was puzzled by the allegations of its Director, Mária Schmidt, in your

2012.07.01.

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