Acting Director Regional Office for Africa

Jan-Eirik Imbsen
Jan-Eirik Imbsen, ICA's Director of Development, joined the ICA in 1991 where he has been coordinating and monitoring the implementation of ICA's global co-operative development programme. Before joining the ICA, Mr. Imbsen served for five years in the Gambia as the Resident Representative of the Royal Norwegian Society for Development in charge of the Norwegian co-operative movement’s programme of assistance to co-operative development in West Africa. Prior to his assignment in West Africa, Mr. Imbsen spent six years in East Africa working first as a teacher and later as Executive Officer of the Association for the Physically Disabled of Kenya. He has carried out a number of missions, studies, and consultancies on co-operative development. He also worked for two years with co-operative development issues at the Royal Norwegian Society for Development’s head office in Oslo

Contact: Imbsen@ica.coop