Bertil is Senior Advisor for International Initiatives at Pomona College. After a long and successful career at both the United Nations as well as international development organizations, Bertil now works at Pomona College using his connections to create and strengthen internship opportunities for students.
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>> My, I'm [inaudible] and I'm right now working as senior advisor for International Initiatives at Pomona College. I left the United Nations system after almost 20 years to come to take up a newly created position at this college to help create new connections, global contacts and opportunities, bring speakers and develop some strategic partnerships with international institutions. The day looks like I have quite a few e-mails because I'm communicating with a lot of contacts I have, former colleagues at different organizations. And what we communicate about is for example I am trying to, for this coming academic year, to propose some speakers series where we will have maybe some senior people from not only the UN but there are NGOs, there are other institutions, to come here. And then I also very important I meet with faculty, with colleagues in the different departments. So for example yesterday I had a meeting with the chair of the media studies department. A couple of weeks ago I met with sociology and we try to discuss what we could do together. And I could hopefully be of help in arranging a seminar or internships or other activities. So that's one part. And then I see quite a few students who ask for, increasingly now actually, internship opportunities in other countries. And I try to coach them and I even help them a bit with you know, their cover letters because it may be a bit special when they try to do something, for example with one of the UN agencies.
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