Career
Irwin was trained at St. Bartholomew's Hospital Medical College, London (graduating in 1955), and at Columbia University, New York. He gained his masters degree in public health from the latter in 1960.
He worked at Prince of Wales Hospital, London, from 1955-1956. In 1957 he became Medical Officer at the United Nations. In 1961 he worked with the UN in Pakistan, returning to his Medical Officer post in 1963 and rising to become Medical Director of the United Nations in 1969. He became Director of personnel at the United Nations Development Programme in 1973.
Irwin subsequently held a variety of positions with UNICEF, in 1982 taking up the post of Medical Director of the United Nations, UNICEF and UNDP, which he held until 1989 when he was appointed Director of Medical Services at the World Bank.
In March 1990 Irwin resigned from the World Bank, writing a letter to the Wall Street Journal which detailed his complaints about the Bank . He cited in particular "the Bank's bloated, overpaid bureaucracy, its wasteful practices, and its generally poor management."
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