| Professional
Field and/or Present Occupation |
Development
Manager of the Finland Futures Studies Centre www.tse.fi/tutu
Futures Lecturer at the Turku School of Economics and at the Helsinki
School of Economics
Finnish University Coordinator for the FFRC International Futures
Studies University Partners
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| Skills
and experience from the last 10 years which qualify her for this position |
Next
10 years of my FUTURES:
I shall continue my voluntary work for IFUW at the Global Level.
THIS MILLENNIUM:
IFUW Status of Women Committee, Convener 2004-2007
IFUW Status of Women Committee, Deputy Convener 2001-2004
FFUW Delegate to the FIWU Delegation of UN Commission on Status
of Women 49th Meeting in 2005 and 50th Meeting in 2006
Initiator of the First International Helvi SIPILÄ Seminar on
"POWER IN HER HANDS" at the UN CSW-50 in New York City,
March 2nd, 2006. (note: the FFUW Honorary Member, Minister Helvi
Sipilä female UN Under-Secretary General in the 1970s).
Initiator and organiser fo the Turku joint venture of 7 women´s
organisations in Turku-Åbo for local fund raising to support
the international Project Five-O since 2002. Our seminars have been
arranged on women´s issues on the International women´s
Day, March 8th, annually since 2003 in Turku-Åbo.
FFUW Board Member, 2004-6; re-elected 2007-2009
FFUW Coordinator for International Relations 2004 -
FFUW Coordinator for European Relations 2004 -
Turku Association of University Women, President 2000-2004
LAST CENTURY:
Turku Association of University Women. Board Member for 12 years
FFUW Young Member representative at the IFUW Yokohama Conference
in 1995
IFUW first electronic Network /via emails/ coordinator and manager
for the International Individual Members, 1995-1998
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| Goals
for the position and the contribution the candidate believes she can
personally make if elected or appointed |
For
IFUW the most important issue for survival is institutional members
- NFAS and their individual members all over the globe.
INCREASE PUBLICITY and INCOME-GENERATING MEMBERSIP GROWTH:
If elected my future voluntary work will promote intergenerational,
interregional, intercultural and multilingual interaction and friendship
in the 21st century.
To market and generate interest of individual and potential university
graduate women in many more countries and support the current membership
to stay and become active in their own NFAs.
Advance the NGO work of the IFUW as a major NGO and GLOCAL(=Global+Local)
actor in the UN and its agencies to benefit all and each individual
women members.
EFFECTIVE PROGRAMMES:
As a team member of the IFUW Membership Committee I shall focus
on the local and global organisational knowhow and opening the knots
at all times.
Sisters of IFUW university women, together we shall create friendships
and look for understanding within the network of university graduate
women under the umbrella of IFUW and together we will survive the
many challenges threatening our existence.
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| Education: |
Bachelor
of Economics and Business Administration in 1975
Master of Economics and Business Administration in 1985 |
| Mother
Language: |
Finnish |
| Ability
to speak English: |
Excellent |
| Ability
to understand spoken English: |
Excellent |
| Ability
to read English: |
Excellent |
| Ability
to write English: |
Excellent |
| Other
languages: |
Swedish
(family language) excellent
French
good
German
good
Spanish
basic |
| Computer
skills: |
Considerable
experience sending e-mails and using the Internet |
| Internet
Access: |
Regular
access to e-mail at home or the office |
