>> Well, I was one of the very few international students back in the day.
I actually started at Pomona forty years ago, and I came from Sweden and wanted
to attend college/university in the United States.
And already back then my dream was to be a diplomat
or work for an international body like the UN.
What happened after graduating was that then I continued actually with studies
at the Claremont Graduate School as it was called then.
Now it's Claremont Graduate University.
And this you have to remember was in the seventies.
So at that time there was a lot of focus on the Cold War and so forth.
So I did some coursework related to the then Soviet Union
and Eastern Europe, communism and so forth.
It was very interesting.
So that took me after all of that to my first job which luck had it was
at the Swedish embassy in Moscow back in 1979.
And I spent three years in Moscow and that was my first taste of an international career.
Then as a diplomat.
But then I kind of switched gears after a few years more towards international development.