In a speech made in 1993, Federico Mayor, Director-General of UNESCO, stated:

His successor, Federico Mayor of Spain, abandoned this program and, with the end of the cold war, distanced the organization from its previous anti-Western grandstanding.

Federico Mayor (Director General of UNESCO)

One salutary result of Mr. Reagan's shock therapy was the election in 1988 of Federico Mayor of Spain as Unesco Secretary General.

He succeeds Federico Mayor of Spain.

By 1987, it found a reforming director general in Federico Mayor of Spain.

Federico Mayor, Director-General of UNESCO (1987 to 1999).

He received from Federico Mayor the Human Rights Medal of the Unesco.

Federico Mayor argued that Freud detected a 'discontent' in civilization and questioned if is it possible to diagnose today, as some experts do, a 'discontent' in globalization?

Federico Mayor argued that, as observed Ilya Prigogine, we cannot predict the future because the future will never be as before.