Robert Jackson (UN administrator)
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Sir Robert Jackson AC KCVO CMG OBE |
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| Secretary of the Department of National Development | |
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In office 17 March 1950 – 30 September 1950 |
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| Secretary of the Department of National Development | |
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In office 2 June 1951 – 15 July 1951 |
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| Born |
Robert Gillman Allen Jackson 8 November 1911 Melbourne |
| Died | 12 January 1991 (aged 79) London |
| Nationality |
 Australian |
| Spouse(s) | Barbara E. Ward |
Sir Robert Gillman Allen Jackson AC KCVO CMG OBE (8 November 1911 – 12 January 1991) was a United Nations administrator who specialised in technical and logistical assistance to the developing world.
Jackson was born in Melbourne on 8 November 1911. He went to Mentone Grammar School, which his father Archibald Jackson had helped found, but his father's death meant he did not go to university and started his career in the Royal Australian Navy at 18.
He transferred to the Royal Navy in 1937 and proved his ability in his plans for defending Malta during the Second World War for which he was appointed an OBE. In 1941, he was appointed principal adviser to Oliver Lyttleton, War Cabinet minister in Cairo, and his work with the Middle East Supply Centre encouraging local food production across many countries fostered his diplomatic and administrative skills.
After the war, he was responsible for the United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration (UNRRA) projects in Europe, parts of Africa and the Far East, "the biggest UN relief operation ever". Next he was assistant to Trygve Lie, first secretary-general of the UN, with whom he had an awkward working relationship, and then returned to the United Kingdom to work at the Treasury before moving to the Australian Ministry of National Development.
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