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Marie Levens is the former Minister of Foreign affairs of
her Country Suriname. In that capacity she has served her country 5 years
from 2000-2005 and has lead several missions to negotiate on peace,
development, bilateral and multilateral cooperation and trade all over the
world. She graduated in Educational Sciences in the Netherlands after
receiving a teaching degree in her own country.
After having worked for 30 years all together at all
levels of Education from primary school through high school to University,
she became a member of the board of the University of Suriname and
contributed to the establishment of the school of Educational Sciences. The
Institute of Quality Assurance at the University was her initiative; she
became the first director of that institute and contributed a great deal to
the national and regional Caribbean movement on the establishment of
legislation and mechanisms on accreditation. Her experience as the director
of the Scholarship Program in Suriname, which includes negotiations with
universities in Latin America, the Caribbean and Europe proves to be quite
useful in her current responsibility as the Director of the Department of
Human Development of the OAS. This Department is responsible for capacity
building in the member states through an Academic and Professional
Development Scholarship Program; a Student Loan Program and the Educational
Portal of the Americas, an instrument to offer distance education throughout
the Americas.
As a consultant in Education she was involved in depth
sector analyses and worked for several International Organizations, among
them the Inter American Development Bank.
Her chairmanship of the Forum for Non Governmental
Organizations in Suriname resulted from her 35 years of voluntary work in
Europe, Suriname and the Caribbean.
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