Pär Stenbäck

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Pär Stenbäck
Born12 August 1941 Edit this on Wikidata
Porvoo Edit this on Wikidata
Alma mater
OccupationPolitician Edit this on Wikidata
Political partySwedish People's Party of Finland Edit this on Wikidata
Awards

Pär Stenbäck (born 12 August 1941 in

Swedish Cultural Foundation in Finland and several other organisations.[1]

Career

Stenbäck studied political science at

YLE from 1964 to 1967.[3]

Stenbäck has been a member of the city council of

Swedish People's Party (1977 to 1985).[1] He received an Honorary Minister title in 1999.[1]

He has also been the general secretary for the

International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Geneva from 1988 to 1992.[3] He received the prestigious Henry Dunant Medal of the International Red Cross in 2009.[1]

Between 1992 and 1997 he functioned as the Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers in Copenhagen.[3] In 1991, he took part in the founding of the International Youth Foundation (IYF), now situated in Baltimore, as a director 1991–1996, thereafter as VP for Europe until 2005.[4][5] In 1995, he became a founding board member of the International Crisis Group.[5] In 2001, together with ambassador Karl-Erik Norrman [sv], he founded the European Cultural Parliament, where he is the Chairman of the Senate.[6] In the same year, he founded the Finnish Children and Youth Foundation and acted as its board chair until 2012.[7] In June 2017, he founded the foreign policy association Nya Utrikespolitiska Samfundet.[1][8]

Publications

Stenbäck has published two books depicting his career in politics and in the Red Cross/Red Crescent movement (2007 and 2009). He is a regular columnist in the daily Hufvudstadsbladet (Helsinki).

Awards and recognition

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h "Pär Stenbäck". Biografiskt lexikon för Finland (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-08-12.
  2. ^ "Pär Stenbäck". Uppslagsverket Finland (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  3. ^ a b c d e "80-vuotias "Näkymät ovat taas mitä synkimmät", sanoo Pär Stenbäck, joka ehti nähdä valon hetken maailmanpolitiikassa". Helsingin Sanomat (in Finnish). 9 August 2021. Retrieved 2021-08-09.
  4. ^ "Former Board Members". International Youth Foundation. 26 January 2016. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
  5. ^ a b "Pär Stenbäck, 70 år: Lyssnar bortom twittret". Hbl.fi (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-08-12.
  6. ^ "Senators, European Cultural Parliament – ECP". Retrieved 2021-08-12.
  7. ^ "History of the Children and Youth Foundation". Lasten ja nuorten säätiö. Retrieved 2021-08-12.
  8. ^ "Om NUPS, Nya Utrikespolitiska Samfundet". NUPS (in Swedish). Retrieved 2021-08-12.
  9. OCLC 1252810731
    – via Open WorldCat.
  10. OCLC 1096245624
    – via Open WorldCat.
  11. OCLC 631140680
    – via Open WorldCat.
  12. OCLC 500650430
    – via Open WorldCat.

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