The Hon. Pedro A. Sanjuan, after a long career in the U.S. Government and the United Nations,  is now concentrating on his career as an author and artist, combining both to create a new genre of adult (and child) book where the story (satire) is told through original graphics and text.   He lectures frequently and hosts a weekly radio program on the Whitney Network.  Before turning to spending his time on these pursuits he was President of the Institute for East-West Dynamics, established by a UN resolution to foster entrepreneurship and understanding between East European countries and the United States.

Sanjuan was appointed Director of the Political Affairs Division of the United Nations Secretariat by Secretary-General Javier Perez de Cuellar on September 6, 1983, nominated by then Vice-President George Bush. The Political Affairs Division, within the Political and Security Council Affairs Department of the UN, served as the policy planning office for the Secretary-General and the Security Council and was a center for the study of the interaction of Soviet and U.S. policies. Initially a strong critic of Soviet misuse of the UN Secretariat as an intelligence collection agency, Sanjuan eventually developed a close relationship with top Soviet and East European political leaders as the Iron Curtain crumbled. During his almost ten years as Director for Political Affairs, Sanjuan created a new area of involvement for the UN Secretariat by encouraging the improvement of East-West economic relations as a vehicle for strengthening international peace and security. He organized several U.S.-Soviet conferences with the collaboration of New York University and traveled extensively throughout the former USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia and Romania.

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