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Interview with Erik Solheim, Norwegian Minister of the Environment and International Development

Erik Solheim is a young and dynamic minister with a strong commitment to creating a better world for humanity through environmental issues or simply more “development” issues. Before becoming a Minister in Norway, Solheim was a politician for the Social Left Party (SV). He went into politics quite young and soon became the leader of the Socialist Youth. Although not all people might agree with his points of view, he is a popular figure in Norwegian politics. We met…

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INTERVIEW with UNIDO Director-General, Kandeh K. Yumkella

1. First of all could you tell us a little bit about yourself and your background? I joined UNIDO in 1996, as Special Advisor to the then Director-General, Mauricio de Maria y Campos, and in the same year became Director of the Regional Bureau for Africa and the Least Developed Countries. Four years later, I went to Nigeria as UNIDO Representative and Director of the UNIDO Regional Industrial Development Centre, a position I held until 2003. From then until…

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