Dominique Bénard

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Dominique Bénard
Deputy Secretary-General of the World Organization of the Scout Movement
In office
August 2004 – April 2007

Dominique Bénard of

InterAmerican
offices.

Prior to this, from September 1990 to August 2000, Bénard was Director of the European Scout Office, in charge of supporting the National Scout Organizations in the European Region. His biggest challenge was the relaunching of Scouting in Central and Eastern Europe after the fall of the Communist régime.

from September 1986 to August 1990, Bénard was Executive Director of the

Region of Paris
, to support the integration of foreign workers and their families coming from Africa. AFDI specialized in literacy and vocational training.

From August 1983 to August 1986, Bénard was Director of the Volunteers' Service of the Association Française des Volontaires du Progrès (AFVP) the French equivalent of Voluntary Service Overseas or the Peace Corps, in charge of recruiting and training the long term volunteers working on development projects in Africa and in the Caribbean.

From September 1977 to July 1983, Bénard was Executive Commissioner of the

Scouts de France
, the Chief Executive of the Scout Association in France (about 100,000 members and 120 professionals). From September 1975 to August 1977, Bénard was National Program and Training Commissioner of the SdF, in charge of managing a team to develop youth programs and adult training schemes. From September 1970 to August 1975, Bénard was National Scout Executive of the SdF, the Executive in charge of the Scout section (11 to 15 years old), supporting a team of volunteers and a network of Assistant District Commissioners in charge of the Scout Section (about 18,000 members).

From September 1965 to August 1970, Bénard was in charge of running

Ministry of Education psychological examinations, interviews and tests for children facing difficulties of adaptation, and counseling teachers on the way to solve the difficulties. Bénard was also counseling young people on their learning and vocational choices, in Évreux, France
.

Bénard graduated from the

Université Paul Cézanne Aix-Marseille III
in 1965, majoring in psychology.

In 2009, he was awarded the 321st

Bronze Wolf, the only distinction of the World Organization of the Scout Movement, awarded by the World Scout Committee for exceptional services to world Scouting.[2]

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  2. ^ "List of recipients of the Bronze Wolf Award". scout.org. WOSM. Archived from the original on 2020-11-29. Retrieved 2019-05-01.

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