His subsequent career blew most of these beliefs to smithereens, but they were deeply ingrained and occasionally a remnant of them rears its ugly head.

He was in his teens when World War II broke out and he lived through the experience of the Blitz. “It was scary”, he says. “We would wake up in the morning and get out of the air raid shelter and look around to see which of our neighbours houses had been destroyed.”

He went up to Cambridge at the age of 17 and completed one year there before joining the army. He served for three years as a member of the Intelligence Corps and was a member of the team at Bletchley Park which, on a daily basis decrypted the Lorenz cypher in which messages passed from German High Commands in various European countries to each other.

After the war he returned to Cambridge to complete his degree in French, Russian and Serbo-Croat.

His career took him to Greece (three years,) Nigeria (thirteen years,) Kenya (four years,) Tanzania (two years,) and Brunei (two years.) He also spent shorter periods working in other countries, including Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Malawi, Liberia, Haiti, the Maldives, and in Italy at the International Labor Organization’s International Training Center in Turin. He worked for the British War Department, the Nigerian Civil Service, the Ford Foundation, the University of Connecticut, the United Nations and Harvard University.

For his work in Nigeria he was honored by Queen Elizabeth II by the award of the M.B.E.

In 1972 he joined the faculty of the Institute of Public Services International (IPSI) at the University ofConnbecticut and eventually became the Director. His work for IPSI also took him to many other countries, most notably Thailand where for seven years he and his colleagues ran training programs in Project Management for middle and senior level Thai officials. He fell in love with Thailand and has a second home there where he spends the winters of every year now.

After retiring from the University of Connecticut in 1988 he took a two year assignment as the representative of the Harvard Insititute of International Development in Brunei. He also continued to take other consulting assignment until he reached the age of 70.

When he felt that his professional career had virtually come to an end, he turned his mind to one of his life long hobbies and enrolled in the New York Insitute of Photography and in 1993 earned a diploma in Professional Photography. His major interest in this field now is in the creation of digitally manipulated images.

Personal

In 1948 he married Aase Ihme-Jensen of Denmark with whom he had three sons. This marriage ended in divorce in 1973 and he then married Krishna Sondhi. a Kenya citizen of Punjabi origin whom he had met through his work in Kenya. Together they founded Kumarian Press, of which Krishna became the President and Publisher.

Ian and Krishna’s combined families include his three sons and twelve grandchildren and Krishna’s brothers and their families. Geogaphically they are spread over the USA and Canada, the United Kingdom, Kenya, and New Zealand. In terms of faith they include protestant and Roman Catholic Christians, Hindus, Muslim, Jewish and Buddhist. In addition to their biological families Ian and Krishna have “adopted” an entire Thai extended family.

Ian’s primary’s email address is ajahnian@hotmail.com but he can also be reached at ims24@sbcglobal.net.

In the course of his career he had written a number of management texts that had been published in Nigeria and Kenya as well as the United States. But he became convinced that may of the theories he had been teaching were based on faulty assumptions and he was not sorry when these books went out of print. But he continued to write. Most of his subsequent books were in the form of poetry and essays. They are listed under Publications.