DAGMAR HERNANDEZ THOMSEN

Cand.Scient.Soc. in International Development & Public Administration

PERSONALITY:

Energetic, Dynamic, Structured and Decisive. I like to Organize, Plan and Implement projects and enjoy leading these through to successful completion. I thrive in a fast moving political environment.

IT-SKILLS

HTML-programming; MS-Office. Experience with websites and intranets incl. ‘Synkronweb’ as a super user. Different databases. ‘Navision’

LANGUAGES

Fluent in: Danish

Spanish

Swedish

Portuguese

English

Studied: Russian & French

WORK EXPERIENCE:

Jan. - June 2006: Intern. Danish Institute for Human Rights, International Department

· Financial Management, Budgeting, DIHR project manual (vol. I & II), Aid Management Guidelines from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA), Strategy work, EU framework agreements and others, Construction and editing of the DIHR intranet (synkronweb), Contract Database, Reporting to the MoFA

Feb. - Dec. 2005: Student Assistant. Royal Danish Ministry of Foreign Affairs

· Attached to the team that works with the Horn of Africa and the African Union, Responsible for the accounting and closing of projects on Eritrean projects, Assisting in different project related phases updating of the offices part of MoFA website and intranet, Ministry related tasks and administrative tasks.

2004 - 2006: Secretary assistant at Roskilde University Center, house 22.1

2003: Ex Libris, The Spanish and French Bookstore and Language School

· Responsibility for the store: Ordering and registration of books from Spain and France as well as the further distribution from the bookstore.

· Responsibility for the daily operations of Ex Libris Language School

Evaluation of ‘Hovedtropperne’ - a project under an NGO called Hjerneskadeforeningen

· The organization required the evaluation from the science shop at RUC. The ToR included a study of existing quantitative and qualitative evaluation methods with the aim of designing an evaluation method that worked in the particular context. Further the ToR included the undertaking of the evaluation, the presentation of the findings to the organization and finally the implementation of continues auto-evaluation tools

EDUCATION:

November 2007: Cand. Scient. Soc. in International Development & Public Administration

· Study of State Development in Central Asia . Comparative analysis of state types, institutional structures, Public Sector Reforms, Geo-political and Geo-Economic relations in order to explain diverging effects of natural resource endowments including economic development prospectives. Focus on administration of oil- and gas sector induced development. Read Thesis dissertation.

2004 –2005: Public Administration, Institute for Social Science and Economics

·       Public Economy and Regulation; International and Public law; Public Steering; International Economic Policy

·      Study of Foreign Investments in Kazakhstan. Fieldwork in Almaty , Kazakhstan .

·      Digital Administration – Organizational Change in the Public Sector

2002 – 2003: Bachelor in International Development Studies at Roskilde University Center

·       Political Reforms and Administrative Development in Africa ; Development Techniques; Development Aid course; Theory and Development; Globalization, Economy and the Productive sector; State and Politics; Development, Society and Culture

·      Public Sector Reform and Poverty Reduction Strategy in Mozambique

·      Colonization strategies and the effects on Development potentials in Africa and Asia

2000 – 2002: International Basic Studies in Social Science at Roskilde University Center

·       Empowerment based evaluation of a Danish NGO – ‘Hjerneskadeforeningen’

·       Institutional study of the Russian transformation process

·       Structure and stabilization programs in Tanzania. Study of Political & Economic reforms

·       State, Institutions and Economy in an International Context, Sociology; Politics; Economy; Theoretical Statistics; Method; Planning, Space and Resources; Advanced Economics; Planning in Geographic Space and Historical Resource flows; International Economic Policy; Qualitative and quantitative Methods.

ORGANIZATIONAL EXPERIENCE:

2005 - 2007: Member of the Danish Society for Central Asia

· Knowledge-sharing on Central Asia ; Contact and network with other interested professionals'

2001 - 2004: Active member of United Nations Association (UNA)

· Member of the Human Rights Group with responsibility for planning and organizing of different debates including debate series on women’s rights and seminars on ’human trafficking’.

· Responsible for activities in KIFFU's coordination group, UNA's youth group.

2001: Volunteer at the Red Crescent office in Ashgabat , Turkmenistan .

· Activities for and with young people and homeless children

2006 - 2009: Member of the Executive Committee and active in the Society ‘Future of Bosnia ’

· Planning, organization and implementation of different funding activities and seminars

· Planning of exchange visits between Danish and Bosnian high schools

OTHERS:

Webpages: Private courses in homepages and HTML in Santiago de Chile. 2004 January-Mai

Russian:

· Private teacher. 218 hours in Almaty , Kazakhstan . 1999-2000

· Intensive course at the Institute of Foreign Languages . 90 hours, St. Petersburg , Russia . 1999

Culture and art: Course in traditional Mapuche jewelry-making and culture, Universidad Católica de Temuco, Chile . 2001 August

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