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Follow on Google News | Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Denmark to the United Nations Comes to AdelphiAmbassador and Permanent Representative of Denmark to the United Nations, Ib Petersen, Comes to Adelphi University on November 19
Ib Petersen has served as ambassador, and permanent representative of Denmark to the United Nations since August 2013. Before taking on that position, Ambassador Petersen served for four years as state secretary for development policy of the Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Prior to that, he was state secretary for development cooperation, Middle East, Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United Nations. Ib Petersen has held a variety of senior management positions in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, including under secretary for bilateral development cooperation (2004–2007) From 1995 to 1998, he served as deputy head of the Danish Embassy in Zimbabwe and from 1988 to 1991 as adviser to the Nordic executive director on the board of the World Bank in Washington, D.C. He joined the Danish Foreign Service in 1985. He has also served on the boards of Danish International Investment Funds: The Industrialization Funds for Developing Countries and The Investment Fund for Central and Eastern Europe and The Investment Fund for Emerging Markets. In this lecture, Ambassador Ib Petersen presents the perspective of a small, socially-progressive society embracing collective global challenges with renewed commitment. From climate change to the Post-2015 development agenda, Denmark has strengthened its engagement with the world. In February 2015, a month after the attacks on Charlie Hebdo in Paris, Denmark was shocked by deadly terror attacks on a free expression lecture and a synagogue in Copenhagen within a matter of hours. Despite the effort to intimidate and terrorize, Denmark’s commitment to engage multilaterally has not wavered nor has Denmark retreated to isolationism. Danish statesman Mogens Lykketoft has also been elected president of the 70th session of the UN General Assembly. For more information about this and other events on campus, please visit adelphi.edu, or call the Cultural Events Hotline at (516) 877-4555. About Adelphi University New York’s Adelphi University is a nationally ranked, doctoral research university where students succeed by gaining the skills, knowledge and resources to thrive as professionals and active citizens in an interconnected and fast-paced global society. Today, nearly 8,000 students from 38 states and 46 countries pursue degrees in person and online through Adelphi’s eight distinguished schools and programs—the College of Arts and Sciences (http://arts- End
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