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)[1] and Party Leader of the Swedish People's Party (1977 to 1985).

Pär Stenbäck in 2014.

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).[2]

References
  1. "Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Finland - Ministers of Foreign Affairs". Valtioneuvosto.fi. Archived from the original on 16 July 2011. Retrieved 30 January 2018.
  2. Biografiskt lexikon för Finland. SLS 710:4 Atlantis
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