He was later posted with UNICEF again in Geneva, and also briefly in New York in the late 1990s.
For several years after the fall of the Ceauşescu regime, he was involved in efforts to bring humanitarian aid to institutionalized orphans and other destitute people in Romania, and was a founder-member of the North-East Relief Fund for Romania, set up with Princess Elena of Romania, and the then-Lord Mayor of Newcastle, Terry Cooney, and Harry Charrington.