David Jensen: What I Learned About Myself After 20 Years in the UN
At the end of 2025, after twenty years as a UN staff member, I made the decision to leave. Before I did, I wrote about it honestly, and at length. The Substack piece covers twenty lessons from twenty years: how large institutions really work, how influence moves, how to build things inside systems that weren’t designed for them. It was ready in January. It reached readers six months later,…
9th July 2026