Robin Medforth-Mills

Medforth-Mills was educated at South Holderness County Secondary School near Preston, in the East Riding of Yorkshire, where in 1960 he was Head Boy. He graduated from Durham University with a BA degree in Geography.^[2] He subsequently obtained a PhD degree, and later became a professor of geography^[3] at Durham.^[4]

He was a lecturer in Geography at Durham from 1974 to 1983 and subsequently a Research Fellow in the same subject from 1983 to 1990.^[5] In addition to his Geography work in Durham, he also worked for the United Nations system,^[6] serving as a UN expert in a manpower project implemented by the International Labour Organization in Sudan in the mid-1970s, in UNICEF in its fund-raising office in Geneva in the early 1990s, and later in its humanitarian operations in northern Iraq,^[7] in the mid-1990s after the first Gulf War.

According to the security chief of the UNGCI, Poul Dahl, during that time Medforth-Mills was sexually harassing the male UN guards by offering them high-paying UN jobs in return for sex,^{[dubious – discuss][citation needed]} and threatening them when they reported him.^{[8][verification needed]}

He was later posted with UNICEF again in Geneva, and also briefly in New York in the late 1990s. For several years after the fall of the Ceauşescu regime, he was involved in efforts to bring humanitarian aid to institutionalised orphans and other destitute people in Romania, and was a founder-member of the North-East Relief Fund for Romania,^[9] set up with Princess Elena of Romania, and the then-Lord Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne, Terry Cooney, and Harry Charrington.^[10]

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