Experimental Simon Rodriguez, 1979 People's University of China, 1980 Universidad Autonoma de Santo Domingo, 1981 Universidad Central del Ecuador, 1982 Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador, 1982 Moscow State University, 1982 United Nations, delegate to the General Assembly, 1968 Vice-President of International Conference on Human Rights, 1968 Senior Consultant to Administrator of Development Programme, 1969 Assistant Secretary General, 1971–72 Under Secretary General of the United Nations Fund, beginning in 1973 Coordinator of World Population Year, 1974 Secretary General of International Conference on Population, 1984. Presidential Consultative Council of Students, 1954 Member of National Economic Council, 1955–61 Special Assist. to the Secretary of Agriculture and Natural Resources and to the President of the Republic, 1961 Acting Chair of National Economic Council, 1966 and 1968 National Coordinator and Action Officer in National Rice and Corn Sufficiency Programme (the "Green Revolution"), 1967–69. Special assignments with the government included delegate to UNESCO Conference on media and youth, 1952 Executive Secretary of UNESCO National Commission of the Philippines, 1957 Assistant Secretary General of Second Asian Productivity Conference, 1960 Chair of Board of Trustees of Government Service Insurance System, 1966 Chair of Administrative Code Revision Committee, 1966 Member of Official Philippine state visit to Japan and Philippine delegation to Manila Summit Conference, both 1966 "Ambassador Extraordinary" to Indonesia, 1967 Chair of Presidential School Building Committee, 1967 Chair of International Tourist Year for the Philippines, 1967 Member of Board of Governors of Philippine National Red Cross, 1967–69 Chair of National Committee on Disaster Operations, 1966–69 Chair of Reorganization Commission, 1968–69 General manager of Manila Chronicle and assistant to the President of Meralco Securities Corp., both 1963–66. Honorary degrees include: (2) D.Humanities from Central Mindanao University, 1969 PhD from Far Eastern University, 1969 University of Sarajevo, 1981 LL.D. from Sri Venkateswara University, 1975 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, 1978 University of Malaya and University of Colombo, 1979 University of Wales, 1981 Islamabad Quaid-i-Azam University, 1982 University of the Philippines, 1983 D.Soc.Sc. from University of Cairo, 1978 University of Indonesia, 1981 D.P.A. from Yonsei University, 1978 D.Econ. from Nihon University, 1979 D.H.C. from Universidad Mayor de San Simon and Universidad Nacional Federico Villareal, both 1979 D.Pol.Sc. from Chulalongkorn University, 1980 D.Public Service from University of Maryland at College Park, 1980 George Washington University, 1981 L.H.D. from American College of Switzerland, 1981 Other honours Management Man of the Year Award from Management Association of the Philippines, 1966 named Outstanding