Leena Rikkilä Tamang

Job Title: Senior Programme Officer

Joined International IDEA in 2003.

Nationality: Finland

Programme: Asia & the Pacific

Office: Nepal

Phone: +977 1 55 35 252 (switchboard)

Email: l.rikkila@idea.int

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Expertise at International IDEA:

• Dialogue facilitation
• Constitution building process
• Democracy and gender

Experience:

• Secretary General of the Advisory Board for Relations with the Developing Countries, Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland 2000-2003
• Coordinator for the North -South Dialogue process at NIGD, Network Institute for Global Democratization
• Researcher at the Dep. of Social Work, University of Tampere
• Lecturer at the Dep. of Political Science, Environmental politis, University of Tampere
• Int. intership at UNESCO, MOST program, Paris
• Project Coordinator for the Reception Committee for Nelson Mandela, Finland, 1990

Education:

• University of Tampere, (MA International Relations)
• Universite de Bordeaux, Science Politique (exhange student)

Languages: Finnish, English, French, Swedish, Nepali

Publications:

• 2002 From a Global Market Place to Political Spaces – the North-South Dialogue continues, Edited by Leena Rikkilä and Katarina Sehm-Patomäki, NIGD Working Paper 1/2002.
• 2001 Democracy and Globalization, Promoting a North-South Dialogue, Elements for Discussion, Department for International Development Cooperation, Ministry for Foreign Affairs. Ed. by Leena Rikkilä and Katarina Sehm Patomäki.
• 2001 Political Initiatives to democratize globalization, NIGD ( Network Institute for Global Democratization) Working Paper 1 / 2001, ed. and The Way Forward by Leena Rikkilä and Katarina Sehm Patomäki.
• 2000 Hindunationalismi ja sukupuolen politiikka [Hindunationalism and Politics of Gender], together with Satu Ranta-Tyrkkö in Kosmopolis (ref.).

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