Karsten van Riezen

About

Experience in education and literacy. Advocate for multi-lingual Education. Broad experience in cross cultural management and administration. Specialties: Multilingual Education Mother Tongue Literacy Advocacy Networking linguistics #MultilingualEducation #MultilingualEducationIndia #Multilingualism #MTB-MLE

Experience

• Senior Education Consultant at New India Development Society
  Oct 2011 - Present · 14 yrs 10 mos

  Liaison work

• Education Consultant at SIL Global
  Sep 1995 - Present · 30 yrs 11 mos

  Education Consultant doing networking, advocacy, advising and training on multilingual education (MLE) and other language, education and development related issues. Network with NGOs and UN agencies. Run an MLE related mailing list for India for anybody who is interested. Hold several administrative related roles. All in cross cultural settings.

• MLE Consultant at UNESCO India
  Sep 2006 - Mar 2007 · 7 mos

  Advisor and Liason for MultiLingual Related issues on a part-time basis

• Literacy Specialist at SIL Phillipines
  Jan 1996 - Mar 1997 · 1 yr 3 mos

  Facilitated the setting up of the Matigsalug Literacy Project

• Lecturer at De Wittenberg
  Sep 1992 - Dec 1993 · 1 yr 4 mos

  Trainer in Social Skills and (Cross Cultural) Management