Arne Disch:
CLASS OF 1968
New Trier High SchoolClass of 1968
Winnetka, IL
Yale University - Graduate SchoolClass of 1983
New haven, CT
Arne's Story
Life
After NTW, returned to Norway for military service, 3 years at Oslo U (history, sociology), one semester each in Germany and France (development studies), before MA in International Relations and PhD in economics, both at Yale. Spent three years as a visiting professor at U of Sao Paulo/Brazil, before 5 yrs with UN Development Program in Mozambique and Uganda, 4 yrs with Norway's development agency in Mozambique and four years with World Bank in Zimbabwe. In 1996, returned to Norway, where have been working as a consultant.
In Mozambique, met Regina, who is Indian but born and raised in Pakistan, whose family moved to Mozambique in 1972. We got married in 1984, our first two children born in the central hospital in Maputo, number three born while we were in Uganda. The two boys have now been called up for military service at ...Expand for more
the same time (still obligatory here in Norway), while our daughter is in her second year of university studies in the UK - international politics and diplomacy.
I continue working on development issues through a small Norwegian firm Scanteam (though of our 14 partners, four are foreigners - Brazil, Canada, Guatemala, Switzerland), and of the Norwegians, four are married to foreigners (India, England, Russia, Ecuador). It's a fantastic gang, work is interesting though at times demanding with lots of travel. I have worked in about 30 countries over the last 7-8 years, right now (end 2007) with tasks in Bosnia, Afghanistan, Mozambique, and Central Europe (more about what I do is on our web-site at scanteam.no).
The future? Heaven knows - but would be fun to hear from old NTW-ers, if anybody read this far....
Best,
Arne
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