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Mr. Pär Stenbäck 
Minister (Hon.)

Pär Olav Mikael Stenbäck, born August 12, 1941 at Borgå (Porvoo), Finland

Master of Political Science, Helsinki University

e-mail: par@stenback.fi
Cell phone: +358 50 52 52 060
Fax: + 358-9-4128725

General career:
 


2016-  Board of Trustees, Brazzaville Foundation
2013-  Member and Vice Chair, UWC International Council
2012-  Advisor (informal), International Association of Language Commissioners IALC
2012-  Chairman, UWC Red Cross Nordic Council
2008-  Board member ICTI Care Foundation
2001-  President European Cultural Parliament ECP
1995-  Board member, International Crisis Group ICG

 
2011-15
Member, Standing Commission of the International Red Cross and Red Cresent Movement
2012- Member, Honory Committee, Baltic Network of Former Cold War Sites


2012- Chairman of the Board of Trustees,  Children and Youth Foundation, www.nuori.fi
2010-16 Board Member, Esperi Care Ltd, Helsingi
2007-2013 Independent Monitor, International Red Cross and Red Cresent Movement, Israel-Palestine (MDA-PRCS)

2005-2008

Elected member of Esbo City Council

1997-2006

Vice President, International Youth Foundation ( Baltimore )

1998-2001

Chairman, Joint Norwegian-Swedish Commission preparing a new Reindeer Grazing Convention

1996-2001

President, Foundation for Swedish Culture in Finland

1996-1999

President, Finnish Red Cross

1992-1996

Secretary General, Nordic Council of Ministers ( Copenhagen , Denmark)

1988-1992

Secretary General, International Federation of Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies ( Geneva , Switzerland)

1985-1988

Secretary General, Finnish Red Cross

1982-1983

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Finland

1979-1982

Minister of Education, Finland

1974-1985

Managing Director, Hanaholmen Center for Cultural Cooperation between Sweden and Finland ( Esbo, Finland)

1970-1985

Member of Parliament, Finland

1962-1968

Editor, Finnish Broadcasting Corporation

 


 

 

2010-2012 Chairman, Helsinki University Delegation for Swedish education


2006-2009

Council member, Inter-faith Action for Peace in Africa

2004-2015

Member, Board of Trustees, Foundation for CSR, Poland

2002-

Chairman of the Senate, European Culture Parliament 
www.kulturparlament.com

2001-2008

Trustee, Deutsche Kinder- und Jugendstiftung ( Berlin)www.dkjs.de

2001-2012

Chairman, Finnish Children and Youth Foundation 
www.nuori.fi

1999-

Board member, A.J. Sandman Fisheries Foundation



1993-2010

Board Member, Foundation for Cultural Co-operation between Sweden and Finland, Chairman 2005-10
www.kulturfonden.net

1988-2012

Board of Trustees, Åbo Akademi University Foundation

 

 

 

 

 

 

2005-2008 Board Member, Finnish Church Aid  
1994-2008 Board Member, Nordic Baltic Film Fund
2003-2007 Board Member, Finnish Evangelical Lutheran Mission

2005

Permanent expert, Commission for Investigation, Asia disaster

2003-2006

Elected Member, Esbo Evangelical Lutheran Parish Council

2001-2006

Executive Board Member, Mehiläinen Private Hospital Corp.

2001-2006

Member of the Board, Finnish Institute of Sweden, Stockholm

1999-2006

Vice Chairman, European Union Committee of the European Foundation Centre (EFC)

 

 

Regular columns in the newspaper Hufvudstadsbladet since 2004.

Honorary title ”Minister” bestowed by the President of the Republic, 1999.
Honorary Doctor, Petrozavodsk State University, Republic of Karelia, 2000. Gold Medal, The Swedish Assembly of Finland, 2014.

- Grand Cross: Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Iceland, Venezuela, 
- Commander, Order of the Lion, Order of the White Rose, Finland
- Holy St Vladimir Cross, Russian Orthodox Church
- Commander of the Ordre de Santé, Cote d´Ivoire
- Red Cross decorations from eleven countries