LANGUAGE SKILLS

Fluent in English and French; Dutch native tongue.

GLOBAL EXPERIENCE

Postwar Europe, Francophone and Anglophone Africa, West Asia, United States of America.

EDUCATION

University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois (1968-1969)

Divisional Masters in the Social Sciences,

Ford Foundation scholarship 

Ignatius University, Antwerp, Belgium (1964-1968)

Degree in Applied Economics, with distinction.

[Casteleyn Award 1968, for “The social and economic factors, which determine levels of development in the Third World” (licentiaats thesis)]

Washington Senior High School, Brainerd, Minnesota (1963-1964)

Foreign student – American Field Service (AFS) 

Xaverius College, Antwerp (1957-1963)

Secondary, Latin & Greek, including Poesis (62) and Retorica (63)

CONSULTANCIES

Country Office UNICEF Cote d’Ivoire (May-June 2012)
/Facilitator/  team-building around programming by objectives 

Roll Back Malaria Secretariat (WHO) (March-June 2011)
Executive Board recommendation re Central Africa: document the progress made by the Special Task Force created in December 2010.  

CordAid (Dutch NGO) (June-July 2010)
Review of programs 

UNDP ResRep’s Office in Sierra Leone; (August 2010) 
Evaluation of inter-Agencies joint planning processes: Assessment of management issues in the implementation of the Primary Health Care project. 

University of Leuven (March-May 2010)
Guest Lecturer The history of the United Nations Organization; Cursus: “Development: actors and paradigms”, in the Masters Program “Cultures and Development Studies” (CADES) 

The Constellation for AIDS Competence (2007-2008) 
Connecting local responses around the world
Resource Person

• Invited to contribute to the evolving conceptual framework –  interactions with the core group, (2007) . Participated in selected training activities, (2008).  

United Nations Country Team (UNCT), Kampala, Uganda 
(September 2006-February 2007); UNAIDS-selected; UK Dfid funded.
Senior Consultant

• Assisted the UNCT in proposing to the Uganda AIDS Commission to re-assess program priorities for a new 5-year National Plan.
• Advocated with bi-laterals to fund national and local programs in line with the new strategies laid-out by the National AIDS Commission.

ACE EUROPE (October 2005-February 2006)
Contracted by the Dutch Consortium of NGOs, at the request of the Parliament of the Netherlands 
Team member, with field visits to South Africa, Zimbabwe and India

• Evaluated the performance of selected Dutch NGOs in HIV/AIDS projects. (October 2005 – February 2006).
• Presented the findings to the Executive Committee of the Consortium (spring 2006).

UNAIDS Kampala, Uganda (March-July 2005)
Country Coordinator a.i.

• Advocated with national and international partners – government, civil society, bilateral and multilateral — for an expanded response to AIDS.

• Ensured the collation, dissemination and use of strategic information to guide public policy. Facilitated the tracking of resources allocated to HIV-related activities; identification and monitoring of resource gaps.

• Mobilized support for NGOs, in particular those representing people living with HIV.

UNAIDS Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (June-November 2004)
Inter-Country Support Team for West and Central Africa
Senior Advisor

INTERNATIONAL CIVIL SERVICE WITH UNICEF (1975-2003)

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire and de-localization to Dakar, Senegal (2003)
Regional Office for West & Central Africa, Abidjan
Special Advisor to the Regional Director

New York, United States (1999-2002)
UNICEF Headquarters, New York
Senior UN Affairs and External Relations Officer

Khartoum, Sudan (1995-1998)
Senior Planning and Program Officer 
Interface with UN’s Operation Lifeline Sudan (OLS)

Islamabad, Pakistan (1992-1994)
Senior Program Officer, Field Operations

Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso (1990-1991)
Country Representative

 “A selection of public speeches on child survival and development”, 
Published by the Ministry of Information of Burkina Faso, 1991.

Kinshasa, Zaire (1985-1989) [now Democratic Republic of Congo]
Country Representative

Lagos, Nigeria, (1980-1983)
Senior Program Officer

Selected by ExDir Jim Grant to test the adaptability of a summer course at Columbia University’s School of Public Health to serve as an “induction” for a new generation of field staff (summer 1982).

Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (1975-1979)
Area Office for West Africa
Program Officer for Côte d’Ivoire and Liberia

ASSIGNMENTS between 1971 and 1974 

Service Autonome de la Programmation Sanitaire, Ministère de la Santé Publique, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (1973-1974) 
Socio-economist

Cabinet-level post, interaction with the Ministry of Planning and Budget, and  the Ministry of Economy and Finance (consultant of IDET-CEGOS). 

Société Ivoirienne d’Etudes et de Promotion, Abidjan, Côte d’Ivoire (1971-1972)
Socio-economist

Ford Foundation, Regional Office for West Africa, Lagos, Nigeria (September 1971)
Project Manager

Coordinated family planning training for French-speaking midwives from Dahomey in Nigeria (Ibadan and Abeokuta).

ACADEMIC WORK

Sabbatical (1984)
Obtained a Doctum Colloquium at the Department of Political Science, Catholic University of Leuven, Belgium: “systems analysis methodology applied to the United Nations Organization in West & Central Africa”

Department of Political Science, Catholic University of Leuven (1970) 
Research Assistant of Professor Paul Van de Meerssche

Community and Family Study Center, Social Sciences Department, University of Chicago (1968-1969) 
Research Assistant of Professor Donald J. Bogue