Richard Ponzio is head of the Global Governance Program at The Hague Institute for Global Justice, where he serves as project director for the Commission on Global Security, Justice & Governance. He is formerly a senior adviser in the US State Department's Office of the Special Representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan. Richard has served with the UN in Afghanistan, Bosnia, Kosovo, New York, Pakistan, Sierra Leone, and the Solomon Islands.

Dr Arunabha Ghosh is CEO, Council on Energy, Environment and Water, India. Widely published, with work experience in 35 countries and having previously worked at Princeton, Oxford, the UN Development Programme, and the World Trade Organization, Arunabha advises governments, industry, and civil society around the world on: energy and resources security, renewable energy, water governance, climate governance, energy-trade-climate linkages, and international regimes. He is, most recently, co-author of Climate Change: A Risk Assessment (2015).

The purpose of the book is to examine the conceptual evolution of "social development" during the post-colonial era, and see how various institutions of the UN system have tried to engage with this issue.

1. Human development: An idea whose time has come? 2. The international policy impact of the human development approach in the 1990s ... the early years 3. Human development measurement tools: Advantages and shortcomings 4. Human development in international policy-making, Part I: Trade, water, energy, and environment 5. Human development in international policy-making, Part II: Democratic governance, human rights, and peacebuilding 6. Human development in global governance: New frontiers