Peter Kuenstler

Career

• 1940 to 1948, as a conscientious objector, full-time volunteer youth work at Oxford House, Bethnal Green, east London.
• 1948 to 1955, Research Fellow in Youth Work at the Institute of Education at Bristol University. Director of youth work training courses at the International People's College, Elsinore, Denmark, Consultant to British and American occupation authorities in Germany, and to the Governor of Uganda Protectorate.
• 1955 to 1964, Secretary of the African Development Trust in London, also lecturing at Department of Social and Administrative Studies at Oxford University, and the London School of Economics UN Adviser on community development to the Government of Greece. Director of a course for African officials given by the German Foundation for Developing Countries, West Berlin.
• 1964 to 1979, United Nations interregional adviser on Youth, Interagency Youth Liaison Officer and Adviser to the Government of Botswana on youth and community development.
• 1980, Visiting Professor at the School of Advanced Social Studies, Case Western Reserve University. Secretary of a working party at the Gulbenkian Foundation, London.
• 1982 to 1993, Director of the Centre for Employment Initiatives awarded an Honorary Doctorate to Peter Kuenstler in 1962.