AND THEN THEY WROTE…
A large number of former staff members have written about the Commonwealth after their departure from the organisation. Some, such as Arnold Smith, Gerald Hensley and Peter Snelson, have written about specific events or a series of events. Others have written articles about the Commonwealth which have clearly at least partly been derived from their experiences.
Some important articles were written by staff members during their time with the organisation and these are included where they seem particularly relevant or where they throw light on the organisation’s activities. A few articles by current staff members are also included where they are particularly informative.
This list includes books, articles and other materials and links to the full text are provided where an item is available free of charge on the internet.
The list is not comprehensive and will be continually updated. The compiler, David Blake, who was Librarian at the Secretariat from 1998 to 2008 and worked in the Library of the Institute of Commonwealth Studies for twenty years before that, would welcome details of any items which have been missed – or, indeed, any newly-published items. He can be contacted at history@comassoc.org
The list is arranged by author. Brief biographical details are given, with an emphasis on the author’s role with the Secretariat.
Yusuff Ali
Yusuff worked at the Secretariat from 1976-1996 as Head of theRadio and Television Service in the Information Division. He has recently written on Commonwealth topics for the Trinidad and Tobago newspaperNewsday, including:
The truth about climate change?
The truth about climate change
Elizabeth The Second: A tireless queen
http://www.newsday.co.tt/commentary/0,111331.html
Archbishop of Canterbury challenges Mugabe
http://www.newsday.co.tt/commentary/print,0,149402.html
Very little about the Commonwealth, but contains an interesting comment about an earlier encounter with President Mugabe.
Chief Emeka Anyaoku
Chief Anyaoku joined the Secretariat in 1966 as Assistant Director in the International Affairs Division. He was Director of the Division from 1971-1975, Assistant Secretary-General from 1975-1977, Deputy Secretary-General (Political) from 1977-1983 and again from 1984-1990. He was Secretary-General from 1990-2000.
In addition to his own memoirs, Phyllis Johnson has writtenEye of Fire: a biography of Chief Emeka Anyaoku: the man and his work,published by Africa World Press, Trenton, New Jersey in 2000. This was reviewed by Peter Lyon, ‘‘Ex Africa semper aliquid novi’: a first biography of Emeka Anyaoku’,The Round Table, vol. 89, issue 355, July 2000, pages 407-409; by Nina Mba, ‘Burnished through fire’, Glendora Books Supplement, issue 6, 2001, pages 26-28, (available at http://archive.lib.msu.edu/DMC/African%20Journals/pdfs/glendora%20supplement/issue6/grbs0062001010.pdf) and by A H M Kirk-Greene in African Affairs, vol. 99, issue 397, October 2000, pages 676-679.
The missing headlines: selected speeches. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 1997, 533p. ISBN 0-85323-812-X
A range of speeches on the changing Commonwealth, democracy, South Africa, sustainable development, development and democracy in Africa, Nigeria and peace and security.
Reviewed by: A H M Kirk-Greene, African Affairs, vol.97, no. 388, July 1998, pages 413-415 and by Richard Bourne in The Round Table, vol. 88, issue 349, January 1999, pages 136-137
A substantial part of the book is available online here http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qsc1W-AaSocC&lpg=PP1&ots=z6Fu_u6jto&dq=%22missing%20headlines%22%20anyaoku&pg=PP1#v=onepage&q&f=false
A number of Chief Anyaoku’s speeches – mostly later than those inThe Missing Headlines-are available on the Secretariat’s website here http://www.thecommonwealth.org/speeches/34293/152065/chief_emeka_anyaoku/page1/
‘The Durban summit and beyond: whither the Commonwealth’,The Round Table, vol. 353, no. 1, January 2000, pages 19-25.
‘Managing diversity – challenges to global governance, lessons from the Commonwealth’. This Global Dimensions seminar was held at the London School of Economics on 24th January 2002. A transcript is available at:
‘The end of multilateralism: whither global governance?’,The Round Table, vol. 93, issue 374, April 2004, pages 193-197.
The inside story of the modern Commonwealth. London: Evans, 2004. 352p.ISBN: 0237527359
Chief Anyaoku’s autobiography.
Derek Ingram reviewed this at some length in‘The struggle for a Commonwealth of democracy’,The Round Table, vol. 93, issue 375, July 2004, pages 483-488. Also reviewed by Akinjide Osuntokun,Lagos Historical Review,Vol. 3, 2003, pages 151-161 and inThis Day, 3 February 2004, available online
here www.thisdayonline.com/archive/2004/02/03/20040203art01.htm
‘The Commonwealth: in the service of a noble cause’,The Commonwealth at 60: past present and future. London: Publications UK Ltd for the Royal Commonwealth Society, 2009, pages 52-53.
Extract from Chief Anyaoku’s speech to the Royal Commonwealth Society nine days before the end of his term of office in 2000. The entire speech is available here
http://www.thecommonwealth.org/speech/181889/34293/35178/152062/35183/valedictory_speech_by_commonwealth_secretary_gener.htm
‘Personal perspectives of the Commonwealth 3’,The Commonwealth Yearbook 2009. Cambridge: Nexus Strategic Partnerships for the Commonwealth Secretariat, 2009, pages 85-86.
‘To progress with CMAG, you need agreement on a set of criteria’,Global: the international briefing, issue 2, 2009, pages 78-79. Available online here http://viewer.zmags.com/publication/d118c039
The Modern Commonwealth.Detail Only AvailableBy: Anyaoku, Emeka.RoundTable, Oct2011, Vol. 100 Issue 416, p499-508, 10p; DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2011.609690
This article is based on a speech delivered by Chief Anyaoku on 5 July 2010 in London, as part of the joint centenary celebrations of this journal and the Royal Over-Seas League. The article offe…
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Colin Ball
Colin Ball was Director of the Commonwealth Foundation from 2000 to 2004. He now lives in Brisbane, Australia. His latest novelDupuytren’s Contracturewas published by Book Guild in October 2010.
The Commonwealth and Civil Society – Unfinished Business.Valedictory Remarks at the Royal Commonwealth Society, Colin Ball, Outgoing Director, The Commonwealth Foundation, 22 November 2004
Available here http://commonwealth.solutionsfocussed.com.au/OntheRecord/ball.htm
‘Championing the cause of civil society, Colin Ball retires as Director of the Commonwealth Foundation’, Commonwealth People, January 2005, pages 4-5.
Richard Bourne
Richard Bourne was a consultant advisor in the Secretariat’s Economic Affairs Division in 1991. A journalist on The Guardian from 1968 to 1972 and later Deputy Editor of the Evening Standard, he was Deputy Director of the Commonwealth Institute from 1983 to 1989, Director of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative from 1990 to 1992, Co-Director of the Commonwealth Values in Education Project from 1995 to 1998 and Director of the Commonwealth Non-Governmental Office for South Africa and Mozambique. He was Head of the Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies from 1999 to 2005 and is now an Associate Fellow of the Institute. He is current Chairman of theRound Table’sMoot and was awarded the OBE in 2002.
‘The Commonwealth and human rights’,The Round Table, vol. 80, issue 320, October 1991, pages 411-416.
‘Ivory towers or driving forces for change’,The Round Table, vol. 89, issue 356, October 2000, pages 451-458.
Focuses on higher education in the Commonwealth.
Where next for the group of 54? Five essays on the future of the Commonwealth of Nations at the start of the 21stcentury. London: Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 2001. 47p. 9781855071100
Edited by Richard Bourne.
A strengthened human rights mechanism for the Commonwealth. London: Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, 2003. 54p.
‘The Commonwealth and civil society: deepening foundations, or appreciating limits?’, The Round Table, vol. 93, issue 376, September 2004, pages 547-560.
‘A Commonwealth of ideas: a valedictory on leaving the headship of the CPSU’,The Round Table, vol. 95, issue 383, January 2006, pages 39-46
Also available at: http://www.commonwealthadvisorybureau.org/fileadmin/CPSU/documents/Resources/CW_Ideas_Report_2005.pdf
The Inaugural Cambridge Commonwealth Lecture arranged by Cambridge University Commonwealth Society, 9 November 2006. Available online on the Society’s website here http://www.srcf.ucam.org/~ccg/past/2006/annual_lecture.
An edited version appeared in the Royal Commonwealth Society’s Annual Review which is also available online here http://www.thercs.org/society/Filestore/PDFDownloads/AnnualReview2006-07.pdf
‘The Commonwealth: problem solving in our globalized era’, The Round Table,vol. 96, issue 388, February 2007, pages 29-36.
‘Electing the fifth Secretary-General’. Available here www.cpsu.org.uk/…/Electing_the_fifth_Secretary_for_CHOGM_2007.doc
Influencing Commonwealth policy on human rights: the case of the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative. London: Non-Governmental Public Action Programme, London School of Economics, 2008. 37p. Available online
here http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/NGPA/publications/WP18_Human_Rights_Initiative_Bourne_Web.pdf
Shridath Ramphal: the Commonwealth and the world. London: Hansib Publications, 2008. 206p.
A collection of essays edited by Richard Bourne to celebrate Sonny Ramphal’s 80thbirthday. Individual chapters. Richard contributes an introduction and a chapter on civil society. Chapters by other former members of staff have their own entries in this guide.
Reviewed by Ian Wishart, The Scribbler, December 2008, pages 6-7. Review available online
here http://www.qcalumnitoronto.com/archives/Scribbler200812.pdf, by David Granger in Stabroek News, 31 August 2008 available here http://www.stabroeknews.com/2008/features/08/31/bookshelf-7/and by Krishnan Srinivasan in the Indian Foreign Affairs Record, vol. 4, no. 1, 2009.
‘A true legacy’, Overseas: the journal of the Royal Over-Seas League, issue 4, December 2008-February 2009.
A short piece on the legacy of Sonny Ramphal.
“The Round Table at 100 in a changing Commonwealth context’, The Round Table, vol. 99, issue 406, February 2010, pages 1-5.
Vince Cable
Vince worked as Special Adviser on Economic Affairs for Sonny Ramphal between 1983 and 1990. He is now Liberal Democrat MP for Twickenham and Business Secretary in the UK’s coalition government.
Commonwealth still valuable in an interdependent world. Interview with the Commonwealth Conversation. Available online herehttp://www.thecommonwealthconversation.org/2009/11/commonwealth-still-valuable-in-an-interdependent-world-says-vince-cable/andhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v3W-YB0D20U
‘Ramphal’s work in bridging environment and development’,Shridath Ramphal: the Commonwealth and the world: essays in honour of his 80thbirthdayedited by Richard Bourne. London: Hansib, 2008, pages 184-191
Free radical: a memoir. London: Atlantic Books, 2009. 358p. Vince Cable’s memoirs. His work with the Secretariat is described fairly briefly in pages 172-177. The picture he presents is not altogether flattering.
John Chadwick
John Chadwick was the first Director of the Commonwealth Foundation.
The Unofficial Commonwealth: the story of the Commonwealth Foundation 1965-1980. London: Allen & Unwin, 1982. 266p.
Stephen Chan
Stephen Chan worked for the International Affairs Division of the Secretariat between 1977 and 1983. He is now Professor of International Relations at the School of Oriental & African Studies, London. He appeared in a BBC debate on the Commonwealth at 60, which can be viewed here http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/8479157.stm. His personal website is available here http://www.stephen-chan.com/index2.html
‘Commonwealth African ministries of youth: problems in planning’,The Round Table, vol. 73, issue 291, 1984, pages 278-285
‘Commonwealth African ministries of youth and non-formal education’The Round Table, vol. 73, issue 291, 1984, pages 286-290
‘Three birds of different feathers: the Commonwealth, the Secretary-General and the Secretariat’,The Round Table, issue 291, 1984, pages 299-310
The Commonwealth Observer Group in Zimbabwe: a personal memoir. Gweru: Mambo Press, 1985.
‘The Commonwealth world view’,Third World Quarterly, vol. 8, no. 1, January 1986, pages 355-363.
Review article of the following Commonwealth Secretariat publications: Towards a New International Economic Order, The Common Fund, The World Economic Crisis: A Commonwealth Perspective, Protectionism: Threat to International Order, The North-South Dialogue: Making It Work, Towards a New Bretton WoodsandThe Debt Crisis and the World Economy.
The Commonwealth in world politics: a study in international action. London: Lester Crook, 1988.ISBN: 187091502X
‘The Commonwealth as an international organisation: constitutionalism, Britain and South Africa’, The Round Table, vol. 78, issue 312, October 1989, pages 393-412.
Twelve years of Commonwealth diplomatic history : Commonwealth summit meetings, 1979-1991. Edited by Jonathan Alner. Lewiston: Edward Mellen Press, 1992. 146p.ISBN: 0773494987
Reviewed by Molly Mortimer inContemporary Review; Apr93, Vol. 262 Issue 1527, p216-216, 2/3p
‘Commonwealth residualism and the machinations of power in a turbulent Zimbabwe’,Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, vol. 39, issue 3, November 2001, pages 51-74. Written with Okoth F. Mudhai.
Robert Mugabe: a life of power and violence. London: Tauris, 2002. 256p.ISBN: 1860648738
Includes a large number of references to the Commonwealth. A substantial proportion of the book can be viewed here
Reviewed by Claudia Rosett in ‘A tyrant’s tale’, Commentary, vol. 116, issue 3, pages 85-87. Anthony Thomas ‘Zimbabwe’s big man’ in Contemporary Review, vol. 282, issue 1646, March 2003, page 177, Norma J. Kriger ‘Robert Mugabe, another too-long-serving African ruler: a review essay’, Political Science Quarterly, vol. 118, issue 2, pages 307-313, Derek Ingram, The Round Table, vol. 92, issue 370, pages 429-430, in African Business, issue 283, January 2003, page 64.
‘Abuja and after: the case for change in the Commonwealth Secretariat’,The Round Table, vol. 93, issue 374, April 2004, pages 239-245.
Professor Chan’s text as the after-dinner guest at the symposium convened byThe Round Tableto discuss the Commonwealth after Abuja, Cumberland Lodge, 12 January 2004. It also includes some of the points he made at the Round Table symposium convened on the eve of Abuja, at the Royal Commonwealth Society, 24 November 2003.
‘An Ornithology of Secretaries-General: the Commonwealth and its leadership’,The Round Table, vol. 94, issue 380, July 2005, pages 325-337.
‘In the shadow of Commonwealth excess: A Commonwealth summit in Trinidad and Tobago was careful to shield delegates from the plight of nearby slum residents’. Available on the Guardian website
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/03/commonwealth-trinidad-tobago
Negotiating With Apartheid: The Mission – Negotiating With Apartheid
Speakers: Patsy Robertson (The Commonwealth Association), Stephen Chan (SOAS), Shridath Ramphal (Former Commonwealth Secretary-General), John Battersby (South African journalist)
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
13 June 2011
http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/videos-and-podcasts/negotiating-with-apartheid.html
‘Calling the Commonwealth’. Interview with Chris Laidlaw on his Radio New Zealand National programme ‘Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw’, 13 November 2011. Available for download at: http://www.podcastdirectory.com/podshows/10777223
Daisy Cooper
Daisy Cooper is the Director of the Commonwealth Advisory Bureau (CA/B). Before joining the CA/B, Ms Cooper was the Senior Strategic Planning Officer at the Commonwealth Secretariat for four years. Daisy has also been the strategic and technical advisor to two Commonwealth high-level groups: the Commonwealth Commission on Respect and Understanding, chaired by Nobel-laureate Professor Amartya Sen, and the Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group, chaired by former Prime Minister of Malaysia, Tun Abdullah Ahmad Badawi.
‘A ‘make or break’ CHOGM? Hardly!’. Article written for the Round Table website. Available at:
http://www.moot.org.uk/resources/report-chogm-2011.asp
Selecting the Commonwealth Secretary-General. Written with Stuart Mole. In: Policy briefing: issues before Commonwealth leaders at Perth, Australia in October 2011, pages 29-34. London: Commonwealth Advisory Bureau, 2011.
http://www.commonwealthadvisorybureau.org/fileadmin/CPSU/documents/Publications/PB-CHOGM-2011.pdf
Review of the Ministerial Action Group: on the side of the people?
http://www.commonwealthadvisorybureau.org/fileadmin/CPSU/documents/Publications/CMAG_PB01_WEB.pdf
Written with David Seddon and Tim Sheehy.
The Commonwealth in denial. London: Commonwealth Advisory Bureau, 2011. 5p.
Hugh Craft
Dr Craft was Director of the Political Affairs Division between 1979 and 1988. Since returning to Australia he has maintained links with the Commonwealth Secretariat and is currently President of the Royal Commonwealth Society of the Australian Capital Territory.
Gave evidence to the Australian Joint Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs, Defence and Trade Seminar on the Commonwealth of Nations in the 21st Century, Canberra, 20 August 1997. Full text available online here http://www.aph.gov.au/hansard/joint/commttee/j7026764.pdf- pages 28-32.
Interview with Hugh Craft on whether it matters that Zimbabwe left the Commonwealth.The World Today, ABC, 8 December 2003. Transcript available here http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2003/s1005703.htm
Between the idea and the reality: Commonwealth diplomacy in a changing global order. PhD thesis, Australian National University, 2008. 357 leaves.
‘Another chance for Rudd to lead the world in foreign affairs”Sydney Morning Herald, 26 November 2009. Available at:
Rudd and Summitry and CHOGM –
http://commonwealth.solutionsfocussed.com.au/OntheRecord/Papers.htm
‘Assessing the Commonwealth’s success and values’. A contribution to the Royal Commonwealth Society’sCommonwealth Conversation. Available here:http://www.thecommonwealthconversation.org/2009/11/assessing-the-commonwealths-success-and-value/#more-1681
Dato’ Prof. Gajaraj Dhanarajan
Professor Gajaraj Dhanarajan joined the Commonwealth of Learning as its Second President and Chief Executive Officer in 1995. He retired in May 2004.
Reflections on ten years of the Commonwealth of Learning. Vancouver: Commonwealth of Learning, 2001. 80p. Available here http://www.col.org/SiteCollectionDocuments/Reflections_10yrs.pdf
Reviewed by Geoff Peters in Open Learning, vol. 17, no. 3, 2002, pages 274-276.
Terry Dormer
Terry worked at the Secretariat from 1971-2003.His posts included Project Officer, Chief Project Officer and NGO Desk Officer in Education Division, Education & Training, Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation (CFTC), Office of the CFTC Managing Director, Secretary-General’s Private Office, Political Affairs Division and Strategic Planning and Development Division.
‘Peace, democracy and good governance: the role of the modern Commonwealth’. Paper presented at the 1999 conference of the Commonwealth Association of Museums.
Available here http://www.maltwood.uvic.ca/cam/activities/past_conferences/1999conf/batch1/CAM’99-%20TerenceDormerFinal.pdf
Carl Dundas
Carl Dundas was the first Director of Elections in Jamaica before working for the Secretariat for many years. He now runs Dundas & Associates and has been involved in a number of major electoral exercises since leaving the `Secretariat.
Observing elections the Commonwealth’s way: the early years. Kingston, Jamaica: Ian Randle, 2007. 138p.
A limited part of the text is available at: http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qa1H8P7U1u4C&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22observing+elections%22+dundas&source=bl&ots=uXJz5ZCD9b&sig=MSZYBVRGtOL1rXBjeD0pfIV_Brg&hl=en&ei=80FJTOivK4f20gSZhumECw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
Cheryl Dorall
Cheryl Dorall was a newspaper and magazine editor in Malaysia and Hong Kong before joining the Secretariat as Deputy Director of the Information & Public Affairs Division. Since 2001 she has been a media and public affairs consultant and is involved in the voluntary sector in a number of charities and organisations. She maintains a strong Commonwealth interest, is a member of the Council of the Royal Commonwealth Society and is Secretary of the Commonwealth Association.
The Commonwealth: a family of nations(with Liz Paren and Caroline Coxon). London: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003.
Some of the book is available here http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=-fwWDaQ8-EQC&printsec=frontcover&dq=%22cheryl+dorall%22+commonwealth&source=bl&ots=i7sMm6NMaI&sig=-1zRDEKvpUO9Z7iFT4OA5hTdo98&hl=en&ei=PlJcTNj6H9G6jAeCmdDxAw&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1&ved=0CBUQ6AEwAA#v=onepage&q&f=false
Tony Eggleton
Tony Eggleton was the Secretariat’s first Director of Information, from 1971-1974. From 1976 -1983 he served as an Advisor to the Australian Government on matters relating to the Commonwealth of Nations. He was also Federal Director of the Liberal Party of Australia, and national campaign director, from 1975 – 1990.
‘The Commonwealth logo – an unorthodox evolution’. Article written in 2010 for the Commonwealth Association’sHistory Mattersproject. Available here.
‘Pierre Trudeau and the Ottawa Heads of Government Meeting’.Article written in 2010 for the Commonwealth Association’sHistory Mattersproject. Available here.
David French
David Frenchwas Director of the Commonwealth Institute from 1997 to 2002 and Chief Executive Officer of the Westminster Foundation for Democracy from 2003 to 2009.
‘Rethinking the Commonwealth Institute’, The Round Table, vol. 88, issue 352, October 1999, pages 659-662.
Ved Goel
Ved Goel was Chief Programme Officer and later Acting Head of th Education Section at the Secretariat.
‘The road from Oxford to Halifax: snapshots of science, technology and mathematics education’ Education in the Commonwealth: The First 40 Years: From Oxford to Halifax and Beyond,edited by Lalage Bown. London: Commonwealth Secretariat,
Gordon Goundrey
Gordon Goundrey played an important part in the development of the Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation. He passed away in 2006 and his obituary in the Vancouver Sun is available here. http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/CAN-BC-OBITS/2006-11/1163449361
‘The Commonwealth Fund for Technical Co-operation: a new concept in multilateral aid’
The Round Table: The Commonwealth Journal of International Affairs, Volume 62, Issue 245, 1972, Pages 93 – 99
Harry Hannam
Harry Hannam was a librarian at the Commonwealth Secretariat and later Principal Librarian at the Foreign & Commonwealth Office. Patricia Larby was Librarian at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies for about twenty years until 1993, when she became Secretary of the Commonwealth Nurses Federation.
Patricia M. Larby and Harry Hannam (compilers),The Commonwealth(International Organization Series, Vol 5). Oxford: ABC Clio, 1993, 254 p.
The standard bibliography on the Commonwealth by two experienced librarians with strong Commonwealth connections. Now in need of revision, but still of use.
Gerald Hensley
Gerald Hensley joined the Secretariat in XXXX He was New Zealand’sHigh Commissioner to Singaporeand Sri Lanka 1976-1980. He then became Head of the Prime Minister’s Department under bothRobert MuldoonandDavid Lange, and then Secretary of theDepartment of Defence. He later chaired a Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group on the Papua New Guinea Defence Forces. A brief interview with him on ABC Local Radio is available here http://www.abc.net.au/pm/stories/s264025.htmand here http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/stories/s256280.htm
Final approaches: a memoir. Auckland: Auckland University Press, 2006. Chapters 3 and 4 deal with his time with the Secretariat.
Reviewed by John Armstrong in theNew Zealand Herald, 20 October 2006, http://www.nzherald.co.nz/arts-literature/news/article.cfm?c_id=18&objectid=10406679-although he makes no mention of his time with the Secretariat – and by Margaret Clark inPolitical Science, issue 59, 2007, pages 81-82 and by John Henderson in Journal of Pacific History, vol. 42, issue 3, December 2007, pages 372-373 and in North and South, (Warwick ROGER). February 2007, issue 251, pages 114-115, , Waikato Times, 14 October 2006, page D5, New Zealand Books, Winter 2007, page 10, Chris Beer in Australian Journal of International Affairs, vol. 61, no. 3, September 2007, pages 430-432
Mohan Kaul
Mohan Kaul worked as a divisional Director for the Secretariat before becoming Director-General/Chief Executive of the Commonwealth Business Council. In 2008 he began writing a blog which is available here http://mohankaul.blogspot.com/
‘The Commonwealth and globalization’.The Round Table, vol. 91, issue 364, April 2002, pages 167-170.
‘The future of the Commonwealth: good governance, economic empowerment and respect for diversity’,The Round Table, vol. 96, issue 392, October 2007, pages 551-553.
‘Should history limit the Commonwealth?’ Brief article on Mohan Kaul’s blog available here http://mohankaul.blogspot.com/2009/09/should-history-limit-commonwealth.html
‘The Commonwealth at 60 and the Commonwealth factor’. Article on Mohan Kaul’s blog available here http://mohankaul.blogspot.com/2009/11/commonwealth-at-60-and-commonwealth.html
Chris Laidlaw
One of New Zealand’s most celebrated rugby halfbacks, Chris Laidlaw was Special Assistant to Ramphal from 1978 to 1984. He was a Commonwealth observer at the Zimbabwe elections in 2000 and 2002.
Chris presents a programme entitled Sunday Morning with Chris Laidlaw on Radio New Zealand International. He recently interviewed Lord Howell, the UK’s Minister for the Commonwealth. The programme can be downloaded from itunes or from RZNL’s website here http://www.radionz.co.nz/national/programmes/sunday/20100808
An interesting recent interview with Michele Hewitson of the New Zealand Herald is available here http://www.nzherald.co.nz/rugby/news/article.cfm?c_id=80&objectid=10645033&ref=rss.
Rights of passage. Auckland: Hodder Moa Beckett, 1999. 237p.
Chris Laidlaw’s autobiography.
Reviewed by Les Barber in Waikato Times, 15 May 1999, page 7, Dominion Post 11 May 1999, page 5, by Karl du Fresne ‘Laidlaw’s message is well worth listening to’, The Dominion Post, 21 May 1999, p. 7
‘Zimbabwe: forward or reverse?’, New Zealand International Review, vol.25, no. 5, 2000. Chris Laidlaw was a Commonwealth observer for the 2000 Zimbabwe elections.
‘Little Commonwealth can do about conflicts’, New Zealand Herald, 19 July 2000
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=144438
‘Charles never to reign over us’, New Zealand Herald, 8 March 2005. Available at:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10114009
Patricia M. Larby
Pat Larby was Secretary of the Commonwealth Nurses Federation after being Librarian at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies. She is currently working on Theses in progress in Commonwealth Studies at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies.
Patricia M. Larby and Harry Hannam (compilers),The Commonwealth(International Organization Series, Vol 5). Oxford: ABC Clio, 1993, 254 p.
Moni Malhoutra
Moni Malhoutra was Assistant Secretary-General, 1982-1993
‘Me and my boss: the Sonny experience’,Shridath Ramphal: the Commonwealth and the world: essays in honour of his 80thbirthdayedited by Richard Bourne. London: Hansib, 2008, pages 14-28
Sir Peter Marshall
Sir Peter Marshall had a distinguished career in the UK Diplomatic Service before beoming Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General in 1983, a post which he held until 1988. He was Chairman of the Commonwealth Trust and Royal Commonwealth Society from 1988 to 1992 and Chairman of the Joint Commonwealth Societies Council from 1993 to 2003. In addition to the Commonwealth-related articles below, he has publishedPositive diplomacywhich was published by Macmillan in 1997.
‘The United Kingdom, the Commonwealth and the European Union’,The Round Table, vol. 87, issue 347, July 1998, pages 357-365.
‘Shaping the ‘New Commonwealth’, 1949’,The Round Table, vol. 88, issue 350, April 1999, pages 185-187.
‘The Balfour formula and the evolution of the Commonwealth’,The Round Table, vol. 90, issue 361, September 2001, pages 541-553.
‘Annus mirabilus’,The Round Table, vol. 92, issue 369, April 2003, pages 221-233
‘21st century Britain and the Commonwealth’,The Round Table, vol. 93, issue 376, pages 571-581.
‘Sonny Ramphal: a personal tribute’,The Round Table, vol. 97, issue 398, October 2008, pages 775-779.
‘The Commonwealth at 60’, The Round Table, vol. 98, issue 404, October 2009, pages 535-546. Available here http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/779658__914741117.pdf
‘How goes it with Britannia?’, The Round Table, vol. 99, issue 406, February 2010, pages 35-51.
Negotiating With Apartheid: The Context – Change and Apartheid
Speakers: Philip Murphy (ICwS), Sue Onslow (LSE), Peter Marshall (Former Commonwealth Deputy Secretary-General – Economic), Derek Ingram (Commonwealth Affairs Journalist
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
13 June 2011
Sir Humphrey Maud
Sir Humphrey Maud held a large number of posts within the Foreign and Commonwealth Office before becoming Deputy Secretary-General (Economic and Social Affairs) between 1993 and 1999.
‘The Commonwealth and its Secretariat: recessional’,The Round Table, vol. 88, issue 350, April 1999, pages 199-206.
‘The Iwokrama story—a Commonwealth cliff-hanger’,The Round Table, vol. 92, issue 371, September 2003, pages 477-485.
Sir Don McKinnon
Don McKinnon was elected to the New Zealand Parliament in 1978 and held a number of senior posts including Deputy Prime Minister (1990 to 1996), Minister of Foreign Affairs and Trade (1990-1999) and Leader of the House of Representatives (1992-1996). He was Commonwealth Secretary-General from 2000 to 2008.
‘The Commonwealth Secretariat: looking forward to the next 40 years’,The Round Table, vol. 94, issue 380, July 2005, pages 293-300.
‘The modern Commonwealth: challenges in the 21st century’. Lecture given at the London School of Economics, 12 November 2007. Available here www2.lse.ac.uk/PublicEvents/pdf/20071112_DonMcKinnon.pdf
‘The modern Commonwealth: a glass more than half full’. Speech given to the Royal Institute of International Affairs at Chatham House, 11 March 2008. Available here ttp://www.thecommonwealth.org/speech/181889/34293/35178/176417/sg_chatham_house.htm
‘From strength to strength: eight years with the Commonwealth’,Overseas: journal of the Royal Over-Seas League,issue 2, June-August 2008, page 5. Available online here http://www.rosl.org.uk/rosl/upload/overseas_june08.pdf
‘A Commonwealth of values: a Commonwealth of incomparable values: reflections of a Secretary-General’,The Round Table, vol.97, issue 394,
‘Personal perspectives of the Commonwealth 4’,The Commonwealth Yearbook 2009. Cambridge: Nexus Strategic Partnerships, 2009, pages 87-88. The fourth Secretary-General recounts his early days in the role and how this shaped his entire term of office.
Stuart Mole
Stuart Mole worked at the Secretariat for sixteen years from 1984 to 2000, first asSpecial Assistant to Sonny Ramphal and then as Head of Office/Director for Chief Anyaoku. He was Director-General of the Royal Commonwealth Society from 2000-2009 and is currently a member of the Editorial Board of ‘The Round Table,’ Vice-chair of the Commonwealth Association and an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Politics at the University of Exeter.
‘From Empire To equality?: migration and the Commonwealth’, The Round Table, vol. 90, issue 358, January 2001, pages 89-93
‘The 2003 Nigerian elections: a democratic settlement’, The Round Table, vol. 92, no. 1, vol. 92, 2003, pages 423-428.
‘Seminars for statesmen: the evolution of the Commonwealth summit’The Round Table, vol. 93, issue 376, September 2004, pages 533-546
Available here: http://pdfserve.informaworld.com/714082__713720123.pdf
The Commonwealth and its member governments: unlocking the potential. Speech given at the 2007 Spring Conference of the Council for Education in the Commonwealth. Notes for the speech are available here http://www.cecomm.org.uk/attachments/Stuart%20Mole%20contrib.pdf
‘A great global good?’ Reviewing the modern Commonwealth’,The Round Table, vol. 99, issue 408, June 2010, pages 321-324.
“From Smith to Sharma: the role of the Commonwealth Secretary-General’,The Contemporary Commonwealth: an assessment 1996-2009. London: Routledge, 2010, pages 43-64.
A great global good? Reviewing Commonwealth institutions and processes: the report of a Round Table Centenary conference. Exmouth: The Round Table, 2010. 32p.
Stuart organised this major conference at Cumberland Lodge. Former staff members who made major contributions, recorded in the report, include Baroness Kishwer Falkner, Sir Peter Marshall, Stuart Mole, Mark Robinson and Missouri Sherman-Peter.
The full report is available here
http://www.moot.org.uk/pdf/conference-GlobalGood-14012010.pdf
http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/videos-and-podcasts/negotiating-with-apartheid.html
Selecting the Commonwealth Secretary-General. Written with Stuart Mole. In: Policy briefing: issues before Commonwealth leaders at Perth, Australia in October 2011, pages 29-34. London: Commonwealth Advisory Bureau, 2011.
Editorial: Perth and the Commonwealth—Options for Reform.Detail Only AvailableBy: Mole, Stuart.RoundTable, Oct2011, Vol. 100 Issue 416, p475-479, 5p; DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2011.609664
The author reflects upon the challenges faced by the leaders of the Commonwealth countries as they prepare to gather for their biennial summit meeting in Perth, Western Australia. He notes that o…
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Matthew Neuhaus
MatthewNeuhaus commenced work with the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs in 1982 and worked in a number of posts before becoming Director of the Secretariat’s Political Affairs Division from 2002 to 2008. He is currently Director of the Pacific Region section of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade in Canberra.
The 21st century Commonwealth. Address to the Australian Institute of International Affairs and Commonwealth Round Table, Canberra, 3 August 2004. Available here
http://commonwealth.solutionsfocussed.com.au/OntheRecord/The%2021st%20Century%20Commonwealth.pdf
Conflict resolution in the Commonwealth.Speech at the Commonwealth Day Gathering, Northern Ireland Assembly, Stormont, 10 March 2008
Available here http://www.thecommonwealth.org/shared_asp_files/gfsr.asp?NodeID=176326&attributename=file
Steve Packer
Between 1977 and 1993 Steve Packer held the posts of education adviser, coordinator of the Human Resource Development Group and, briefly, Assistant Director in the Secretariat’s overall Planning Unit. He initiated a stream of work on education in small states and is still involved with this area of work.
‘Challenges to education: the Commonwealth in the next decade or two’. Paper presented to the Council for Education in the Commonwealth Spring Conference 2007.
Available here http://www.cecomm.org.uk/attachments/Steve%20Packer%20contrib.pdf
‘A memorable day in Madhia’. Article on the 1992 elections in Guyana, at which Steve was part of the Secretariat support team for the Commonwealth Observer Group. Available at:
Andrestinos N. Papadopoulos
Papadopoulos was a Cypriot diplomat who worked as an Assistant Director in the International Affairs Division. He presented a paper to a seminar at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies in April 1976 and was awarded an MPhil in 1977 at the Institute.
Multilateral diplomacy within the Commonwealth: a decade of expansion. The Hague: Nijhoff, 1982. 172p.
Reviewed by Thomas Peardon, Political Science Quarterly, vol. 99, issue 1, pages 153-154 and Tony Thorndike, International Affairs, vol. 60, no. 2, Spring 1984, pages 292-293.
Hilary Perraton
Perraton worked at the Secretariat during the 1980s. His work on open and distance learning led to the establishment of the Commonwealth of Learning. He was a member of the Commonwealth Scholarship Commission from 2002 to 2009.
Learning abroad: a history of the Commonwealth Scholarship and Fellowship Plan. Newcastle-upon-Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2009.
Reviewed by Richard Bourne in African research and documentation, issue 111, 2009, pages 78-80 and by Tim Shaw and David Jobbins in an extended review article, ‘Commonwealth scholarships: advancing cosmopolitanism for 50 years’, Round Table, vol. 98, issue 405, December 2009, pages 777-787.
Professor Bishnodat Persaud
VishnuPersaud spent nineteen years at the Secretariat, the last eleven of which (1981-1992) he was Director and Head of the Economic Affairs Division. A profile of him byJohn Mair appeared in Stabroek News, 19 July 2003 and is available here http://www.landofsixpeoples.com/news303/ns307194.htm
‘The significance of establishing a commonwealth equity fund’, The Round Table, vol. 78, issue 312, October 1989, pages 363-370
‘The Commonwealth and international economic affairs’, The Round Table, vol. 79, issue 316, October 1990, pages 389-392
‘Developing countries can compete in international capital markets’, The Round Table, vol. 81, issue 323, 1992, pages 359-362
‘Trade negotiations’, The Round Table, vol. 89, issue 353, January 2000, pages 39-43
‘Practising development cooperation: Ramphal’s role and influence’,Shridath Ramphal: the Commonwealth and the world: essays in honour of his 80thbirthdayedited by Richard Bourne. London: Hansib, 2008, pages 164-183
James Porter
James Porter was Director General of the Commonwealth Institute from 1978 to 1991.
‘Empire to Commonwealth—a cultural dimension’, The Round Table, vol. 96, issue 391, August 2007, pages 435-446
Sir Shridath Ramphal
‘Sonny’ Ramphal was Secretary-General of the Commonwealth for three five-year terms, from 1975 to 1990.
The Secretariat is now opening his papers under a 30-year rule. Details of the collection are available here http://www.thecommonwealth.org/Internal/191529/157082/202172/guide_to_shridath_ramphal_papers/
On the occasion of his 80th birthday, Stabroek News carried a number of articles by people who have known and worked with Ramphal over the years. None of them were Secretariat staff, but they do throw light on aspects of his career.
R.M. Austin Former Guyana Ambassador to the People’s Republic of China
Denis Benn Michael Manley Professor of Public Affairs/ Public Policy, University of the West Indies, Mona Campus
Edwin W. Carrington Secretary-General Caribbean Community (Caricom)
Rudy Insanally Former Foreign Minister of Guyana
Rashleigh E. Jackson Former Foreign Minister of Guyana
Cedric Joseph Former Guyana High Commissioner to the United Kingdom
Vaughan A. Lewis, Former Prime Minister of St Lucia; Professor Emeritus, Institute of International Relations, University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and Tobago
Clive Lloyd Former Captain of the West Indies Cricket Team; ICC Match Referee
Ian McDonald Former CEO of the Sugar Association of the Caribbean; Caribbean novelist and poet
Sir James Mitchell Former Prime Minister of St Vincent & the Grenadines
P.J. Patterson Former Prime Minister of Jamaica
Bryn Pollard Former Chief Parliamentary Counsel, Guyana; Former Legal Consultant, Caricom
Dr Barton Scotland Former Senior Diplomat, Ministry of Foreign Affairs
One world to share: selected speeches of the Commonwealth Secretary-General, 1975-9. London: Hutchinson Benham, 1979. 444p.
Reviewed by Margaret Doxey, A.J.R. Groom and Ralph Uwechue in Third World Quarterly, vol. 2, no. 2, April 1980, pages 345-350.
‘The Commonwealth in the 1980s: an era of negotiations’, The Round Table, vol. 71, issue 282, April 1981 pages 170-178.
‘The Commonwealth since Saskatoon’, Round Table, vol. 76, issue 301, January 1987, pages 7-17.
‘Canada and the Commonwealth: empires of the mind’, Round Table, vol. 76, issue 304, October 1987, pages 426-433.
Inseparable humanity: an anthology of reflections of Shridath Ramphal, introduced and edited by Ron Sanders. London: Hansib, 1988. 423p.
Contains material from selected speeches, statements, and writings of ShridathRamphalfrom 1971 to 1987
Reviewed by Peter Lyon, ‘Ramphal’s neo-Kantianism. The Round Table, vol. 78, issue 310, pages 201-206.
An end to otherness. London: Commonwealth Secretariat, 1990. 299p. Eight lectures.
‘The Commonwealth in the global neighbourhood: a distinctive and enlarging role’, The Round Table, vol. 86, issue 342, April 1997, pages 175-185.
No island is an island: selected speeches of Sir Shridath Ramphal, edited by David Dabydeen and John Gilmore. London: Macmillan Education, 2000. 180p.
‘The Commonwealth’s need for renewal’, The Round Table, vol. 89, issue 357, October 2000, pages 633-637
Compulsions of oneness. The 3rd Asa Briggs Lecture, given at the Third Pan-Commonwealth Forum on Open Learning organised by the Commonwealth of Learning at Dunedin, New Zealand on 6 July 2004.
Available here http://www.col.org/speeches/PCF3_Ramphal.htm
Can multilateralism recover? The 3rd Foreign Policy Lecture given at the Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand in July 2004.
http://www.victoria.ac.nz/nziia/events/seminars/prev_seminars/3rd-foreign-policy-lecture.html
‘The second Commonwealth of Nations’, The Round Table, vol. 98, issue 401, April 2009, pages 213-222
Originally published inKing’s Counsel, the student magazine of King’s College London, where Ramphal was a student. He also presented a seminar paper entitled ‘Secession from the Commonwealth’ at the Institute of Commonwealth Studies on 4 December 1951. A copy is available in the Institute’s library.
‘Glimpses of the Commonwealth—at 80!’,The Round Table, Vol.98, issue,February 2009,
pages 67-77
This article is based on a speech delivered by Sir Shridath at the dinner organized by the Royal Commonwealth Society on 6 October 2008 in London to celebrate his 80th birthday.
‘Glimpses of the Commonwealth’, The Commonwealth at 60: past present and future. London: Publications UK Ltd for the Royal Commonwealth Society, 2009, pages 54-56. Different version )?_ available at:
‘Education: jewel in the Commonwealth’s crown’, The Round Table, vol. 98, issue 405, pages 663-678.
‘Personal perspectives of the Commonwealth 2’,The Commonwealth Yearbook 2009. Cambridge: Nexus Strategic Partnerships, 2009, pages 82-84. An edited version of Sonny Ramphal’s presentation to the Royal Commonwealth Society in 2008 on the occasion of his 80th birthday.
‘Ireland: Time to Come Home’, The Round Table, vol. 99, issue 408, June 2010, pages 317-320. Also available here http://reformblog.blogspot.com/2010/01/ireland-time-to-come-home-speech-by-sir.html
‘A Commonwealth of laws: at 60 and beyond’, Commonwealth Law Bulletin, vol. 36, issue 2, June 2010, pages 359-366.
The Commonwealth Legal Forum organised a very successful law lecture to commemorate the 60th anniversary of the Commonwealth at Marlborough House on 7 December 2009. The lecture isavailable in the Commonwealth Law Bulletin, in the newsletter of the Commonwealth Legal Education Association http://www.clea-web.com/Documents/CLEA-Vol-107-Feb-2010.pdfand on the website of the Commonwealth Lawyers Association.
Interview with Sir Sonny Ramphal. Sonny Ramphal reflects on his time in office for the Commonwealth Conversation.
http://www.thecommonwealthconversation.org/2009/12/interview-with-sir-sonny-ramphal/
“Negotiating with apartheid: the mission of the 1986 Commonwealth Eminent Persons Group”: transcript of interview with Sir Shridath Ramphal by Stuart Mole, 12 June 2011. Available at: http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/online-resources/commonwealth-oral-history-project.html. Audio available on the same website.
Negotiating With Apartheid: The Mission – Negotiating With Apartheid
Speakers: Patsy Robertson (The Commonwealth Association), Stephen Chan (SOAS), Shridath Ramphal (Former Commonwealth Secretary-General), John Battersby (South African journalist)
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
13 June 2011
http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/videos-and-podcasts/negotiating-with-apartheid.html
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‘The Wider World is Short of Ideas’: Sonny Ramphal.Detail Only AvailableBy: Mole, Stuart.RoundTable, Oct2011, Vol. 100 Issue 416, p547-554, 8p; DOI: 10.1080/00358533.2011.609695
An interview with Chairman of the British political organizationRoundTableand former secretary-general (SG) of the international organization Commonwealth, Stuart Mole, is presented. He discus…
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South Africa fell under the weight mobilized by the EPG, Global international briefing, iassue 7, thiord quarter 2011, pp. 88-89.
S.K. Rao
S.K. Rao worked at the Commonwealth Secretariat from 1978-2001, latterly as Director of Strategic Planning and Evaluation.
‘Shridath Ramphal and his struggle for peaceful change in South Africa’,Shridath Ramphal: the Commonwealth and the world: essays in honour of his 80thbirthdayedited by Richard Bourne. London: Hansib, 2008, pages 61- 70
Barry Rider
Barry Rider was Head of the Secretariat’s Commercial Crime Unit from 1981-1989 and later Director of the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies in the University of London.
‘The price of probity’, Journal of Financial Crime, Vol. 7, issue 2, November 1999, pages 105 – 119.
At the Commonwealth Law Ministers’ Meeting in Barbados in 1980, the ministers accepted the recommendations of a report, commissioned a year earlier by the then Director of the Commonwealth Secretariat’s Legal Division, Mr Kutlu Fuad, and written Barry Rider, which led to the instigation of a Commonwealth programme against serious economic crime. This article gives the background to this event.
Patsy Robertson
A Jamaican journalist, Patsy Robertson joined the Secretariat shortly after it was established and between 1965 and 1994 held the posts of Press Officer, Assistant Director and Director of the Information Division. She is Chair of the Commonwealth Association.
A common purpose: the Commonwealth’s support for the AAM
Paper presented at a conference entitled “The Anti-Apartheid Movement: a 40 year perspective held at the South African High Commission in 1999.
Available here at: http://www.anc.org.za/ancdocs/history/aam/symposium.html#Robertson
‘Ramphal and the independence of Zimbabwe’, inShridath Ramphal: the Commonwealth and the world: essays in honour of his 80thbirthdayedited by Richard Bourne. London: Hansib, 2008, pages 42-60
‘Arnold Smith: the man who made the Commonwealth: a look at the early days of the new Commonwealth adventure’, The Commonwealth at 60: past present and future. London: Publications UK Ltd for the Royal Commonwealth Society, 2009, pages 63-69.
Negotiating With Apartheid: The Mission – Negotiating With Apartheid
Speakers: Patsy Robertson (The Commonwealth Association), Stephen Chan (SOAS), Shridath Ramphal (Former Commonwealth Secretary-General), John Battersby (South African journalist)
Institute of Commonwealth Studies
13 June 2011
http://commonwealth.sas.ac.uk/events/videos-and-podcasts/negotiating-with-apartheid.html
Mark Robinson
Mark Robinson was an Assistant Director at the Secretariat from 1977-1983, when he became a Conservative MP for nine of the next thirteen years. He was a member of the Commonwealth Development Corporation from 1988-1992, Chairman of the Council for Education in the Commonwealth from 1999-2005 and Executive Director of the Commonwealth Press Union from 1997-2002.
‘Fighting for press freedom: a battle never done’, The Round Table, vol. 91, issue 366, September 2002, pages 493-502.
Clyde Sanger
Clyde Sanger had a long career as a journalist, including periods with the Guardian and the Globe and Mail before becoming Director of Information at the Secretariat in 1977. – 79. He has maintained links with the Commonwealth and wrote the biography of Malcolm MacDonald.
Stitches in time: the Commonwealth in world politics. London: Andre Deutsch, 1981. 322p. See entry under Smith for details of reviews.
‘A diplomat for crises’. Obituary of Arnold Smith. The Guardian, 26 February 1994
The Comsec in its thirties. Paper prepared for a symposium organised by the Royal Commonwealth Society of Canada. No longer on the RCS website, but available here http://www.docstoc.com/docs/19607047/Sanger
‘Trudeau and the Commonwealth’, The Round Table, vol. 90, issue 358, January 2001, pages 95-102.
‘A moment for resilience: fresh leadership and renewed Canadian vigour could help smooth the organization’s recent bumpy ride’, Globe and Mail, 22 November 2007.
Available here: http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20071122.COCOMMON22/TPStory/?query=commonwealth+secretariat
‘A clear and steady voice: the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative at 20’, The Round Table, vol. 96, issue 391, August 2007, pages 477-488
‘Personal perspectives of the Commonwealth 1’,The Commonwealth Yearbook 2009. Cambridge: Nexus Strategic Partnerships, 2009, pages 79-81. Clyde Sanger imagines how Arnold Smith might feel about today’s Commonwealth compared with his own experience five decades earlier.
‘Harper could learn from the Commonwealth small fry’, Globe and Mail, 27 November 2009.
Prunella Scarlett
Prunella was Director of Public Affairs for the Commonwealth Trust and the Royal Commonwealth Society.
‘The Ndwedwe experience’ The Round Table, vol. 83, issue 331, 1994, pages 299-301.
Prunella Scarlett was an observer for the South African elections in 1994 and wrote this article about her experience.
Syed Sharfuddin
Syed Sharfuddin (Sharaf) joined the Pakistan Foreign Service in 1977 and served in senior diplomatic positions in Washington, Harare and Dhaka before joining the Commonwealth Secretariat in 1996. He was Deputy Conference Secretary of CHOGM and CMAG from 2000 to 2006 and was also Special Adviser for Political Affairs, specializing in Asia. He contributed several articles to the Dawn newspaper on Commonwealth related-matters and is now Chief Executive of Muslim Aid.
Commonwealth Mechanisms for Compliance – What role the Commonwealth can play to ensure compliance; the role of civil society within the Commonwealth; the compliance mechanisms within the Commonwealth. An overview of the existing Commonwealth mechanisms available to monitor, encourage or sanction states’ compliance with human rights commitments. Prepared for the Commonwealth Human Rights Initiative.
Available here: http://www.humanrightsinitiative.org/cwhra/chrf/commonwealth_mechanisms_for_compliance.pdf
‘CMAG’s Treatment of Pakistan and Zimbabwe in the light of the Harare Commonwealth Principles: Recommendations to CHOGM 2007’, in Uganda’s Commonwealth summit” a briefing on issues before the leaders at Kampala in November 2007. London: Commonwealth Policy Studies Unit, Institute of Commonwealth Studies 2007. Available here www.cpsu.org.uk/…/CMAG_and_Pakistan_and_Zimbabwe_for_CHOGM_ 2007.doc
‘Asia’,The Contemporary Commonwealth: an assessment 1996-2009. London: Routledge, 2010, pages 190-209.
Andrew Simmons
Andrew Simmons was Deputy Director of the Commonwealth Youth Programme from 1997 to 2006 and sometime Chair of the Commonwealth Secretariat Staff Association at
At the end of his time with the organization, Andrew was interviewed. The interview is on the Secretariat’s website here http://www.thecommonwealth.org/news/152816/152865/155150/andrew_simmons.htm
Two years later he was interviewed again by Diane Mensah-Bonsu. The interview can be read here http://www.thecommonwealth.org/news/152816/152865/176411/110308simmons.htm
Arnold Smith
Arnold Smith joined the Canadian diplomatic service in 1943 and held a number of posts before being elected as the first Commonwealth Secretary-General in 1965. He held the post for ten years and was described as ‘the man who kept the Commonwealth alive’ by Roy Lewis, in The Times, 13 June 1975, page 16. Patsy Robertson has written of him in ‘Arnold Smith: the man who made the Commonwealth: a look at the early days of the new Commonwealth adventure’, The Commonwealth at 60: past present and future. London: Publications UK Ltd for the Royal Commonwealth Society, 2009, pages 63-69.
Smith died in 1994 and obituaries appeared in The Times, 9 February 1994, in the Guardian, 10 February 1994 (by George Ivan Smith with a short note by Emeka Anyaoku), 26 February 1994 (by Clyde Sanger),
Stitches in time: the Commonwealth in world politics. London: Andre Deutsch, 1981. 322p.
Reviewed by Margaret Doxey, Canadian Journal of Political Science, vol. 15, 1982, pages 424-425, in International Journal, vol. 37, no. 3, Summer 1982, pages 489-491, the American Historical Review, vol. 88, no. 1, February 1983, pages 85-86 and by John English in the Canadian Historical Review, vol. 63, no. 1, March 1982, pages 61-62
Peter Snelson
ComSec:1968-1987. Senior Education Officer, Education Division; Director, Fellowship and Training Programme.
To independence and beyond: memoirs of a colonial and Commonwealth civil servant. London: Radcliffe Press, 1993. 342p.
Reviewed by Sean Morrow,International Journal of African Historical Studies, Vol. 27, No. 3 (1994), pages 640-641.
Sir Hugh Springer
Sir Hugh was Assistant Secretary-General from 1966-1970, Secretary- General of the Association of Commonwealth Universities between 1970 and 1980 and Governor-General of Barbados from 1984-1990. Obituaries of Sir Hugh include those by Patrick Keatley in the Guardian, 25 April 1994, entitled ‘Rebel Governor’, Antony Murray in the Independent, 3 May 1994, available herehttp://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/obituary-sir-hugh-springer-1433334.htmland an anonymous one in the Times, 20 April 1994.
‘Problems of aid in education in the commonwealth’, The Round Table, vol. 60, issue 239, July 1970, pages 317-325.
The commonwealth of universities : the story of the Association of Commonwealth Universities, 1963-1988. London: Association of Commonwealth Universities, 1988. 143p. 0851431097. Written in collaboration with Alastair Niven with a foreword by Shridath Ramphal and a forward look by Anastasios Christodoulou
Krishnan Srinivasan
Krishnan Srinivasan joined the Indian Foreign Service in 1959 and served in Libya, Zambia, Botswana, New York, Nigeria, Benin, Cameroon, the Netherlands and Bangladesh. He was Permanent Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs from 1992-1994 and Foreign Secretary from 1994-1995. He was Deputy Secretary-General of the Commonwealth from 1995 to 2002.
‘What are Commonwealth values? Traditional ones: against aggression and authoritarianism’ International Journal, vol. 53, no. 4, Autumn 1998, pages 622-633
‘India and the Commonwealth’, The Round Table, vol. 88, issue 351, July 1999, pages 445-448.
The eccentric effect. New Delhi: HarperCollins, 2001. 181p. A novel set in the Commonwealth Secretariat.
Reviews by Sheela Reddy (Outlook India) http://www.outlookindia.com/article.aspx?212076
Ashok Malik (India Today)
http://www.india-today.com/itoday/20010618/books2.shtml
Anjana Basu (Connect [South Asian Women’s Forum])http://www.sawf.org/newedit/edit08062001/bookreview.asp
Tricks of the trade, or, diplomacy day by day. London: Royal Over-Seas League, 2000. 96p.
http://www.hindustantimes.com/Diplomatic-doodles/Article1-15418.aspx
http://www.rosl.org.uk/rosl/upload/GiftCat2010.pdf
‘The Commonwealth, India and lost opportunities in South Asia’, Asian
Affairs, 32: 2, 131 — 141
‘International support for development and transformation: the Commonwealth’s contribution’, The Round Table, vol. 91, issue 363, January 2002, pages 47-52
‘Complaisance or compliance with Commonwealth principles? An evaluation of CMAG’, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, vol. 41, issue 3, November 2003, pages 13-20
The Commonwealth: lost opportunities in South Asia. Cambridge: Centre of South Asian Studies, 2003. 16p.
The rise, decline and future of the British Commonwealth. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005.
A set of review articles was published in the Round Table, vol. 96, 2007, pages 57-70. `thr reviewers were W. David McIntyre, Stuart Mole, Lucian M. Ashworth, Tim Shaw and Alex May. It was also reviewed by Stephen Ashton in Journal of Imperial and Commonwealth History, vol. 34, no. 4, December 2006, pages 652-654;D. Howlett in Asian Affairs, vol. 40, no. 1, March 2009, pages 105-107, D.P. Gorman in Current reviews for academic libraries, vol. 44, no. 6, February 2007, pages 1045-1046 and Marc Frey in H-Net Reviews (available here)
http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=21436
‘Nobody’s Commonwealth? The Commonwealth in Britain’s post-imperial adjustment’, Commonwealth and Comparative Politics, vol.44, no. 2, July 2006, pages 257-269.
‘Rethinking India’s leadership role in the Commonwealth’, Indian Foreign Affairs Journal, vol. 2. No. 4, October-December 2007.
‘Regrets? I have a few … The Commonwealth secretary-general’s election, Lusaka, 1979’, The Round Table, vol. 96, issue 392, October 2007, pages 565-567
‘For a few good men at the global tables’,The Telegraph (Calcutta), 25 October 2007
Srinivasan wishes India had a more coherent policy on its candidatures in international organizations
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1071023/asp/opinion/story_8460310.asp
‘Principles and practice: human rights, the Harare Declaration and the Commonwealth Ministerial Group (CMAG)’The Contemporary Commonwealth: an assessment 1996-2009edited by James Mayall. London: Routledge, 2010, pages 43-64.
“Commonwealth in crisis: beyond a ‘touch of healing’, The Statesman, 19 November 2011.
http://thestatesman.net/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=390566&catid=38
Antony Tasker
Assistant Secretary-General and Managing Director Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation,1974–78
‘The Commonwealth Fund for Technical Cooperation: a unique mechanism for mutual assistance’, Journal of the Royal Society of Arts, vol. 56, no. 5258, January 1978, pages 93-105.
Tunku Abdul Aziz
‘Commonwealth riding into the sunset?’, New Sunday Times, 25 November 2007, available here http://www.malaysianbar.org.my/general_opinions/comments/tunku_abdul_aziz_commonwealth_riding_into_the_sunset_.html
Peter Unwin
After a career in HM Diplomatic Service during which he was the UK’s Ambassador successively in Hungary and Denmark, Peter Unwin was Deputy Secretary-General (Economic) for a little under three years until his retirement in December 1992.
‘A Commonwealth of competing messages’ The Round Table, vol. ??? Round Table, Oct93, Vol. 328 Issue 1, p397,
Based on some concluding remarks made at a Conference on ‘TheCommonwealthand Communications’, held at St Catharine’s in Windsor Great Park in June 1993.
Interview with the BritishDiplomatic Oral History Programme (BDOHP)
Mostly concerned with other parts of Peter’s career, but there are five pages concerned with his time at the Secretariat.
Transcript available at: http://www.chu.cam.ac.uk/archives/collections/BDOHP/Unwin.pdf
Hearts, Minds and Interestsby Peter Unwin. London: Profile Books, 1998. 206p.
Reviewed in European Business Review, vol. 99, issue 1, by Peter Mangold inMillennium – Journal of International Studies, no. 28, June 1999, pages 463-465
Kaye Whiteman
Kaye was Director of the Information and Public Affairs Division between 1999 and 2000.
‘Ramphal and the Lome Convention’,Shridath Ramphal: the Commonwealth and the world: essays in honour of his 80thbirthdayedited by Richard Bourne. London: Hansib, 2008, pages 156-163
‘The uncertain Commonwealth’, Africa Today, 2009, http://www.africatoday.com/cgi-bin/public.cgi?sub=news&action=one&cat=199&id=1895
Media Freedoms in the Commonwealth
http://www.thecommonwealthconversation.org/2009/08/media-freedoms-in-the-commonwealth/
‘All in the same boat’, African Business, no. 2010, January 2010.
Kaye Whiteman reports from Port of Spain on the Commonwealth Business Council Forum meeting held in the wings of the Commonwealth summit. Available here http://www.thefreelibrary.com/All+in+the+same+boat%3A+Kaye+Whiteman+reports+from+Port+of+Spain+on+the…-a0217374859
‘Tinkering in Trinidad’,New African, issue 491, January 2010, pages 64-65. Available here http://www.thefreelibrary.com/Tinkering+in+Trinidad%3a+Kaye+Whiteman+was+at+the+Commonwealth+Heads+of…-a0218191195
‘The Commonwealth and Africa’,Business Day, 29 July 2010. Available at: http://davidcoltart.com/?p=
Peter Williams
Peter worked at the Secretariat for ten years, from 1984-1994, first as Director of Education and then asDirector of the Human Resource Development Division. He is currently Joint Deputy Executive Chair of the Council for Education in the Commonwealth and Secretary of the Commonwealth Consortium for Education. He was Secretary of the Commission on Commonwealth Studies, attended Commonwealth Education Ministers’ meetings in Barbados (1997), Edinburgh (2003), Cape Town (2006), and CHOGMs/People’s Forums at Edinburgh (1997), Durban (1999), Brisbane (2001), Abuja (2003), Valetta (2005) and Kampala (2007).
‘The Foreign Affairs Committee report and education’, The Round Table, vol. 85, issue 339, pages 295-300.
‘From Oxford to Halifax: forty years of Commonwealth co-operation in education’,Education in the Commonwealth: the first forty years: from Oxford to Halifax and beyond,edited by Lalage Bown. London: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2003. 203p.
‘Critical champions: civil society and Commonwealth education’, The Round Table, vol. 98, issue 405, December 2009, pages 711-729. A shorter version appears on the Commonwealth Conversation website here http://www.thecommonwealthconversation.org/2009/11/civil-society-and-commonwealth-education-by-peter-williams/
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