Telephone:   +45 33 76 06 00  

Email:  fk@rct.dk  

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Nationality: Danish  

Resident in: Denmark 

Born:  1961  

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.  

Recet 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.