Iina Soiri

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Iina Soiri

Iina Kaarina Soiri (born August 29, 1964 ) is a Finnish social scientist and director of the Nordiska Africa Institute at Uppsala University .

Life

Iina Soiri was born on August 29, 1964. She completed a Masters Degree in Social Sciences from Helsinki University . She also worked as a lecturer and research fellow at the University of Helsinki and the University of Lapland .

Soiri spent more than twenty years on the continent of Africa, living in Namibia, Mozambique, Angola and Tanzania, among others. Among other things, she worked as a consultant for electoral processes and political education for the UNDP program in Mozambique, as a trainer for the Helsinki Consulting Group for local government in Namibia, as a consultant for the Finnish embassy in Dar-es-Salaam (Tanzania) and as a consultant for SNV Netherlands Development organization for local government in Angola.

From March 2013 to June 2019, Soiri headed the Nordiska Africa Institute at Uppsala University .

Works

  • 1999, together with Pekka Peltola: Finland and National Liberation in Southern Africa , ISBN 9789171064318
  • 1996: The radical motherhood: Namibian women's independence struggle , ISBN 9171063803

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Director. Nordiska Afrikainstitutet, accessed on July 15, 2017 .
  2. ↑ Iina Soiri första att leda finländare Nordic Africa Institute. (No longer available online.) Ulkoasiainministeriö Utrikesministeriet, February 26, 2013, archived from the original on October 11, 2016 ; Retrieved July 15, 2017 (Swedish). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.formin.finland.fi
personal data
SURNAME Soiri, Iina
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soiri, Iina Kaarina (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Finnish social scientist, head of the Nordiska Afrikainstitutet
DATE OF BIRTH August 29, 1964