Barbara S. Baudot
Department Chair;
Professor, International Relations & Comparative Politics;
Coordinator, New Hampshire Institute of Politics, Thomas J. Dodd Center for International Affairs & Law
 
Hear Professor Baudot discuss the Iraq war and global relations.

Most recently, Baudot has been engaged in international projects connected with the World Social Summit, specifically on the ethical and spiritual dimensions of social development. She has assisted in the work of the Copenhagen Seminars convened by the Danish Minister for Development Cooperation and serves as coordinator of the Triglav Circle , a group of scholars, professionals, and public servants that meet regularly in Cambridge, Mass. to explore these issues.

Baudot has acted as adviser and consultant to various international bodies concerned with problems of the environment. In 1990, she was invited to participate in the Second World Climate Conference, sponsored by the WMO and UNEP in Geneva, Switzerland. In June 1991, she was engaged by SAREC [an agency of the Swedish government] to present a paper on financing technology transfer to a conference convened jointly by the UN and the government of Sweden in Tallberg, Sweden. In December 1991, she served as a special adviser to the UN International Negotiation Committee for a Framework Convention on global warming at its fourth negotiation held in Geneva, Switzerland. In June 1994, with funding from the UNFPA, she co-organized an international conference of population and environment at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy.

As a Rockefeller Foundation International Relations Fellow, she did an in-depth analysis of the planning, budgeting and restructuring of the United Nations. Her manuscript was widely circulated within the UN and foreign ministries.

Baudot served in many capacities in the United Nations, first as an economist studying problems of development with economic and social division in New York. Later, in Geneva, she participated in East/West negotiations as assistant secretary and then secretary to the meetings of senior economic advisors to ECE governments. She supported diverse North/South negotiations organized by UNCTAD and GATT; and prepared numerous studies on development, international trade, transfer of technology, and foreign investment in the Third World.