Bimal Ghosh has a long and distinguished career as an academic, an international civil servant, and a writer. He has lived and worked in all the major regions of the world and is the author of more than a dozen books and numerous articles and newspaper columns on global and humanitarian issues. His first collection of poems, Through the Eyes of My Mind, was widely acclaimed and topped the Goodreads list of the ten best poetry books in 2005.Ghosh is an emeritus professor at Colombia's Graduate Institute of Public Administration and a senior fellow at the Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva. Previously, he served for many years as a senior director/senior consultant in the United Nations system and the Council of Europe and for a number of global commissions on international and development issues. He is the recipient of several prestigious national honours for his outstanding contributions to development and global cooperation.