Past ACCFs

UIS Regional Advisor for Asia and the Pacific, UNESCO Bangkok

Born in China; Country of Citizenship, Sweden; Education: primary school education in Japan, secondary school in Hawaii; BA, Dartmouth, USA; Post-Graduate, U of Essex, UK, and Cologne, Germany; and PhD, University Stockholm, Sweden;

Work: UIS Asia-Pacific Regional Advisor and Head of Assessment, Information Systems, Monitoring and Statistics Programme Unit, UNESCO Asia-Pacific Regional Bureau, Bangkok. In between, he has served as an expert on various TA missions for UNICEF, SIDA, World Bank, ILO, etc.; Technical Advisor, Education Policy Initiatives, SADC; Capacity Building Advisor, Education Decade, OAU; Director of UNESCO Southern Africa Cluster, Harare; Chair of all Africa EFA 2000 Assessment; Coordinator of EFA Regional Technical Advisory Groups in Sub-Saharan Africa; Sub-Saharan Africa Regional Coordinator, ADEA Working Group on Education Statistics (hosted by UNESCO Division of Statistics and later UIS); Senior Advisor, Swedish International Development Authority/Agency and World Bank; Vice President, InterScience Research Corp., Stockholm; Scientific Advisor, Second Science and Mathematics Studies, International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement (IEA); University teacher and head of PhD scientific methodology courses, University of Stockholm; Researcher, Center for International Migration and Minorities Studies, Stockholm.