Nordic Africa Institute
Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) (Swedish: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet) serves as a research, documentation and information centre on modern Africa for the Nordic countries. The Institute conducts independent, policyrelevant research, provides analysis and informs decisionmaking, with the aim of advancing research-based knowledge of contemporary Africa. The Nordic Africa Institute was founded in 1962 and is financed jointly by Sweden, Finland and Iceland.
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- Founded
- 1962.
- Headquarters
- Uppsala.
- Activity
- research.
- Part of
- Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden.
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Nordic Africa Institute (NAI) (Swedish: Nordiska Afrikainstitutet) serves as a research, documentation and information centre on modern Africa for the Nordic countries. The Institute conducts independent, policyrelevant research, provides analysis and informs decisionmaking, with the aim of advancing research-based knowledge of contemporary Africa. The Nordic Africa Institute was founded in 1962 and is financed jointly by Sweden, Finland and Iceland.
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Denmark and Norway were also members of the original group of founding and funding partner countries, but they backed out in 2013 and 2015, respectively. Administratively, the institute functions as a Swedish government agency that answers to the Ministry for Foreign Affairs. It is located in Uppsala, Sweden. The Nordic Africa Institute is part of AEGIS, a network of African Studies Centres in Europe, and organized its 4th international conference (ECAS) in 2011. The institute is headed by a Director, and a Programme and Research Council has the task of monitoring and advising the Director. On 18 July 2019, the Swedish government appointed Therése Sjömander Magnusson as new Director of NAI, a position which she took up on 1 October 2019.
It is associated with Sweden. The record gives 1962 as its date of establishment or first appearance. It forms part of Ministry for Foreign Affairs of Sweden. Its recorded seat is Uppsala. The recorded field of activity is research. It is recorded in the collection of Uppsala.
The list is partly based on a report to the Nordic Africa Institute's 50th Anniversary in 2012. Iina Soiri 2013-2019 Carin Norberg 2005-2013 Lennart Wohlgemuth 1993-2005 Anders Hjort af Ornäs 1984-1993 Carl Gösta Widstrand 1962-1984
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1962
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- 1.The Nordic Africa Institute website (About us).
- 2.Nordic Africa Institute: The Programme and Research Council.
- 3.Pressmeddelande från Utrikesdepartementet, 18 juli 2019: Ny direktör för Nordiska Afrikainstitutet.
- 4.Nordiska Afrikainstitutet. Researching Africa: From individual efforts to structured programmes. The role of the Nordic Africa Institute (p. 8). 2012.
- 5.Regeringskansliets årsbok 2013 (p. 44).
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