Dr. David A. Waugh

United Nations, retired

About Dr. Waugh

Dr. David Waugh has led many lives, though mostly in global positions, both with the United Nations and world travel to more than a hundred countries.

Presently, Dr. Waugh leads a double life in Arizona’s amazing ranch countryside and in Orange County, California. He is presently semi-actively retired from a career in international service marked by remarkable excitement, diverse learning experiences, and non-stop adventure. Along the way, he encountered fascinating people and acquired unique insights into power structures, global challenges, and human nature.

Dr. Waugh’s Insights

My Blog

What to Expect

Reflections

Reflections of self, society, and civilization will be posted in blogs on this site. These will ultimately become a compilation, likely a book. You are invited to peer into these musings and reflect on your own personal world. Perhaps these might inspire ideas for your life story as you live it. They may ignite your imagination for the legacy you leave. Possibly your thought provoking stories, told in person and in print, will become your autobiography.

Commitment to Sharing Ideas

Dr. Waugh has had a long romance with writing. A principal component of his life’s work, education, and career is and has been writing, editing, and speaking about the issues presented and acquired by a life of global service. The highlights below are necessarily abbreviated; a more complete description will show up on this page over time in contributions to this web page.

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Highlights

Chrysler Corporation, Marine Division, Human Resources Manager/Labor Relations.
U.S. Department of Labor, Washington, D.C., Administrator: Labor Law.
United Nations: “International Labor Organization” (ILO).
- Directed USA Office
- Worked with U.S. Congress, Office of the President and with International Development Agencies
- Worked globally in the economic and social development of countries worldwide
CEO of International Federation of Training and Development Organizations (IFTDO),
- Managed staff operations of global organization then headquartered in London (presently New Delhi)
- Worked with board of directors from 21 countries
- Operated regional and global conferences
Representative to the United Nations and International Labor Organization (for IFTDO)
- Highlight: In 2014
- Contributed to new U.N. sustainable development goal 8, decent work and economic growth
Alliance for Retired Americans, National staff and state-level director.
- Directed ARA state operations for Maryland and District of Columbia
Lizard Education and its subsidiary, Lizard Publishing
- Associate Editor,Irvine, CA, Continuing
- See note below.
Formal and Mentored Learning
- High School, Rockton, Illinois
- U.S. Air Force: Aircraft Mechanic and Electrician
- University of ILlinois, B.A., Economics
- Southern Methodist University, M.B.A.
- University of Southern California
  - Doctorate of Public Administration (D.P.A.)
  - Public Policy and International Development
  - Dissertation: “Privatizing the Public Industries of Thailand.”
- Loyola University of Chicago, Law

Lizard Education & Lizard Publishing

Lizard Publishing creates original nonfiction (all ages), publishes the work of others (fiction & nonfiction), and produces empowerment and career/college literature that shapes lives (typically 13 – 25).

The principal product of Lizard Education is directing students of all ages toward learning experiences leading to the achievement of their educational and occupational dreams. Secondly, in order of priority, is to put before these young lives the critical issues of our times in understandable, straight forward language supported by graphs and graphics. Among recent publications, available on Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and booksellers worldwide are: