Born

1942

 

Office
Nationality Swedish Nordic Consulting Group
Resident in Sweden Phone: +46 8 441 55 34
Fax: +46 8 32 88 70

Email

johan.holmberg@ncgsw.se

 

Profession

Economist with long experience from the implementation and management of development cooperation in agriculture and rural development, water supply and sanitation, and conservation of the environment.

Education M.B.A. with major in marketing economics from the Gothenburg School of Economics (1966); B.A. with major in modern languages from University of Gothenburg (1967)

 

Country
Experience Resident in Sweden, U.K., Belgium, Ethiopia, Mozambique, Sudan, Sierra
Leone; worked in Tanzania, Kenya, Djibouti, Uganda, Rwanda, Angola,
Botswana, India, Pakistan, China, Vietnam, Cambodia, Thailand, Serbia,
Macedonia, Nicaragua, Mexico, Burkina Faso, Central African Republic,
Guinea-Bissau, Cape Verde, Zambia.

 

Sector
Experience Johan Holmberg has extensive experience from development cooperation and from leading missions for purposes of project identification, supervision and evaluation. He worked for Sida and SAREC, two Swedish aid agencies, for 17 years, and an important part of this work was to head missions with in-house staff and external consultants. He has been responsible for Sida's work in agriculture, rural development, water resources management, and conservation of the environment, and is well familiar with all forms of development cooperation. He has lived for extended periods in four African countries for a total of 14 years. On leave of absence from his regular employer he has also done research on issues relating to the environment and to development as well as consulting work for the World Bank, IUCN, the EC and other agencies. He was one of the founders of the Global Water Partnership (GWP) and served as its first Executive Secretary concurrently with being Assistant Director General at Sida. He has been a member of the Council (board) of IUCN and of the board of the CGIAR institute CIMMYT (research on wheat and maize). Having served as Swedish ambassador to Ethiopia and Chargé d'Affaires in Mozambique, he also has a keen understanding of African politics.

 

Recent experience

Since resigning from the Swedish government in 2003, Johan Holmberg has
worked on consulting assignments relating to conservation of the environment,
water resources management, and water supply and sanitation. He has also been
associated part time with the EC for the EU Water Initiative.

 

Language

English
French
Portuguese
German
Russian Some understanding
Spanish Some understanding
Swedish Mother tongue