Education
MA Economics (Cand. Polit.), Economics of Development, University
of Copenhagen, Denmark
Country experience
Kenya (1 year), Switzerland/France (2 years) and El
Salvador (2 years). Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Costa Rica,
Ecuador, Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Côte D'Ivoire, Bangladesh,
Philippines, UK, Spain, Sweden, Norway and Finland (working
missions)
Languages
Masters Danish, English and Spanish, Basic French, German
and Portuguese
Key qualifications
- International development professional with fourteen years of
experience with policy, strategy and operational advice to - and
dialogue-negotiation with - state institutions and civil society
organisations in the fields of: 1) Human Rights and
Democratisation, 2) Community Organisation and Mobilisation;
Economic Animation; Local Economic Development; Rural Development;
and 3) Sustainable Organisational Strategies, Change and
Innovation.
- Has in recent years worked in the fight against torture and
organised violence in oppression, conflict and post conflict
situations in Central America, - within a Rights Based Development
Perspective.
- Strong analytical, problem solving and political skills.
Profound knowledge about a variety of approaches to poverty
orientation, organisational development and participation. Solid
experience with institutional screening, pre-investigations,
participatory design and planning, human resource management,
financial management, monitoring and assessment of development
projects and programmes at the micro and macro level.
- Broad experience in facilitating and leading training and
evaluation workshops in a Knowledge Generation, Sharing and
Deployment Perspective. Taking part in media work, human rights
campaigning and advocacy.
- Working experience from NGOs, UN and state institutions in
Latin America, Africa and Europe.
Selected Publications
"Psycho-social Support to large numbers of Traumatised
People in Post-Conflict Societies: An Approach to Community
Development in Guatemala". Published in Journal of Community &
Applied Social Psychology. 15: 136-152, March 2005.
Co-author.
"Community Psychology - Creating Shared History and Shared
Improvement." (in Danish). 4: 20-22, Socialpsykiatri, September
2004, Co-author.
"Psychology and Development Aid." (in Danish). Psykologisk Set,
15: 31-40, November 2003. Co-author.
"Rehabilitation and Community Psychology." Edition on New
Priorities in Development Aid (in Danish), 1: 62-74, Den Nye
Verden, September 2003. Co-author.
Economic Animation in 6 Local Economic Development Agencies in El
Salvador, Nicaragua, Guatemala and Honduras, - (in Spanish). 1 -
90, October 1994, Published for Central American Networking Seminar
by OIT-ILO, El Salvador.
"Poverty oriented development projects; design and implementation
of development project to benefit the rural poor, - with case study
from Rural Development Fund in Kenya"- Emphasis on guidelines for
action in institutional development and participation. (in Danish).
Master Thesis. 1 - 105, 1990, Institute of Economics, University of
Copenhagen.
Presentations
"Promoting Social Justice through Social and Political
Transformation - Implications for Community Strategies, The
ODHAG - RCT programme in post-conflict Guatemala, 1997-05". Key
note presentation at Round Table Sharing and Learning Event
organized by Balay Rehabilitation Centre: Towards an Understanding
of Social Trauma and Community-Based Psychosocial Development
Response. Mindanao, the Phillipines, 18 October
2005.
"Political Community Development Approach. - Implications for
Understanding Social Trauma; and Design of Response". Key note
presentation at Round Table Sharing and Learning Event organized by
Balay Rehabilitation Centre: Towards an Understanding of Social
Trauma and Community-Based Psychosocial Development Response.
Mindanao, the Philippines, 17 October 2005.
"The Challenge of Developing Sustainable Organisational Strategies
for Anti-Torture and Organised Violence Actions, - Experiences from
the design of a Thematic Mid Term Review in Honduras in 2005".
Knowledge sharing presentation for international delegation of
master students and lecturer from the Netherlands based Institute
of Social Studies, Alternative Development Studies. Copenhagen, 29
September 2005