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Acting Director Regional Office for Africa - www.icaafrica.coop
Jan-Eirik Imbsen (Norway)
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
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Director Regional Office for the Americas -- www.aciamericas.coop
Manuel Mariño (Sweden)
Manuel Mariño joined ICA's family as ROAM's Regional Director in October 2001. Before joining ICA, he was the Director of the Swedish Co-operative Centre (SCC) Regional Office located in San José, Costa Rica for four years (1996-2000). This is a Swedish organisation constituted by the Swedish co-operative movement, which is focused in international co-operation and offers support to co-operatives in developing countries. Mr. Mariño has also worked at SCC Head Office in Stockholm, Sweden from 1984 to 1996. He was the Director of the Latin American Department and was also responsible for projects in Kenya and Zimbabwe and the relations with the European Union, Inter-American Development Bank, and UN among others. He has an expertise in project development and cooperation. Mr. Mariño has published two books ("Commercialisation of agricultural products in Mozambique, ASDI, and September 1984" and "International Co-operation and Co-operative Development") and has written various articles on many topics. He has also been invited as a speaker to seminars, conferences on co-operative issues in Europe and the Americas.
Contact: direccion@aciamericas.coop
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Director Regional Office for Asia & the Pacific -- www.icaroap.coop
Shil-Kwan Lee (Korea) Shil Kwan Lee has been Regional Director of ICA's Regional Office for
Asia & Pacific since January 2002. He previously worked for the National Agricultural Co-operative Federation (NACF)
in Korea since 1972. At NACF he worked in various departments dealing with training and banking and most recently was General Manager of International Co-operation Office of NACF where he was responsible for the ICA
General Assembly 2001 in Seoul. Mr. Lee has also been a consultant to the World Bank and served as the Secretary-General of the International Co-operative Agricultural Organisation (ICAO).
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Director Cooperatives Europe -- www.coopseurope.coop
Rainer Schluter (Germany)
Rainer Schluter was appointed Regional Director of ICA Europe in March 2005. In addition to this half-time position, he is Secretary-General of CECOP, the European organisation of workers' co-operatives.
Contact: r.schluter@coopseurope.coop
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