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Place of Birth: Porvoo, Uusimaa Province, Finland
About Pär Stenbäck
- Pär Stenbäck (born 12 August 1941 in Porvoo) is a Finnish politician and debater.
- He received an honorary minister title in 1999.
- Stenbäck has been a member of the city council of Espoo, and also the Finnish parliament (1970-1985).
- He was the Minister of Education (1979 to 1982), Minister of Foreign Affairs (1982 to 1983) and Party Leader of the Swedish People's Party (1977 to 1985).
- He has also been the general secretary for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) in Geneva from 1988 to 1992.
- Between 1992 and 1997 he functioned as the Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers in Copenhagen.
- In 1991, he took part in the founding of the International Youth Foundation (IYF), now situated in Baltimore, as a director 1991-1996, thereafter as VP for Europe until 2005.
- In 1995, he became a founding board member of the International Crisis Group. In 2001, together with ambassador K-E.Norrman, he founded the European Cultural Parliament, where he is the Chairman of the Senate.
- In the same year, he founded the Finnish Children and Youth Foundation and acted as its board chair until 2012.
- In June 2017, he founded the foreign policy association "Nya Utrikespolitiska Samfundet". Stenbäck has published two books depicting his career in politics and in the Red Cross/Red Crescent movement (2007 and 20099.
- He is a regular columnist in the daily Hufvudstadsbladet (Helsinki).
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