Seton Hall Graduate Degree in International Affairs
Seton Hall Graduate Degree in International Affairs

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Lucia Mouat

Lucia Mouat is the author of "The UN's Top Job," a book about UN secretaries-general. She holds a B.A. in international relations from the University of Wisconsin and an M.A. from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Academic Council on the United Nations System. A longtime correspondent and editorial writer for The Christian Science Monitor, she covered the UN as her last assignment. She lives in Chicago.

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Seton Hall Graduate Degree in International Affairs

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