CV - Hans-Otto Sano

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Professional Experience
2009 - Senior researcher, Danish Institute for Human Rights
2008 - 2009 Acting Director, Danish Institute for Human Rights
2007- 2008 Senior researcher, Danish Institute for Human Rights
2002-2007 Deputy Director, Head of the Research Department in the Danish Institute for Human Rights.
1997-2002 Senior analyst, the Danish Centre for Human Rights
1994-1997 Associate professor, Institute of Development Studies, University of Roskilde
1992-1994 Researcher, Centre for Development Research
1990-1991 Chef du projet et du suivi et evaluation, Projet Danois, Niger
1986-1990 Ph.D. student and reseacher, the Centre for Development Research
1984-1986 Ph.D. student, university of Lund, Institute of Economic History
1980-1984 Research fellow, Nordic Africa Institute, Uppsala
1979-1980 MA in History, University of Copenhagen, Tutor, University of Roskilde

Membership of professional bodies
2005- Member of expert Group on human right indicators, OHCHR
2004-2006 Member of OECD Metagora project on governance and human rights measurement
2001-2004 Member of Project Advisory Committee for Care Denmark
2000-2004 Member of Advisory Committee for Danish Association of Development (MS)
1999 - 2007 Member of Scientific Advisory Committee for Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture, Copenhagen
2002 - Member of Board and Scientific Advisory Committee for Rehabilitation and Research Centre for Torture, Copenhagen
1999-2001 Member of Board for Organisation of Development Researchers
1994-1997 Coordinator at Roskilde University on research project on Sustainable Agriculture in Semi-Arid Africa (Sasa).

Consultancies and Special Assignments
2007-08 Rights-based Programming. Consultancy, Danish Red Cross
2005- Human Rights Indicators. For the World Bank
2004 For European Policy Evaluation Consortium (EPEC) and the DG Justice and Home Affairs: Fundamental Rights Impact Assessment
2004- In cooperation with DanchurchAid: Action research on rights based approaches
2003 For the World Bank. Workers consultation as a component of Corporate Social Responsibility. In cooperation with Price Waterhouse Coopers and Business for Social Responsibility
2003-2006 For the Europeaid (EIDHR): Key expert on evaluation programming in cooperation with Mede European Consultancy
2003 For Mede European consultancy and OHCHR: Thematic evaluation of national human rights institutions
2003 For Norad: Development of Indicators, human rights projects
2002 For Dutch Cordaid, Consultancy on Human Rights Impact Assessment, Georgia.
2002 Assessment Committee for senior researcher position, Norwegian Institute of Human Rights.
2001-2002 Evaluation of Police training projects in Albania and Uganda (team-member)
2001 Acting head, research department, Danish Centre for Human Rights
2000-2002 Coordinator Nordic book project on Human Rights and Good Governance.
2000-2001 Evaluation of the Norwegian Human Rights Fund (team-leader)
2000 Representing the Danish Centre for Human Rights with Danish Parliamentary Delegation visit to UN in New York
2000 Quality Control: Evaluation of Danish Democracy Fund
2000 Examiner Ph.D. thesis, University of Roskilde
1998 Capacity Assessment of Research Institutions and NGOs in Zimbabwe and Malawi concerning Human Rights and Democracy (for Danida)
1997 Co-responsible for student course in field work methodology and natural resource management, Indonesia.
1995-1996 Examiner, Ph.D. thesis, Copenhagen Business School of Economics
1994 Review of World Wide Fund for Nature in Zambia (Teamleader)
1992 Responsible for Norad courses on Zambia
1990 Situation Analysis, Zambia, for Danida
1988-1990 Member of United Nations Research Institute for Social Development Team on Food Policy in World Recession: The Socio-economic and Political Implications of Pricing and Marketing Reforms
1988 An environmental analysis covering agriculture and livestock husbandry, including forestry and energy aspects, for Danida (Team-member)
1987 Analysis of Danida’s project evaluation reports (team-member) 

Language skills
English: Reading: Excellent, Speaking: Excellent, Writing: Excellent
French: Reading: Excellent, Speaking: Good, Writing: Good
German: Reading: Good, Speaking: Good, Writing: Good
Kiswahili: Speaking: Fair

Relevant country experience
Sep. 2007 India field work on rights-based approaches for DanChurchAid
Jan. 2003 Pakistan. Development of Indicators for Norad
Sep.-Oct. 2002 Georgia. Human Rights Impact Assessment. Dutch coordaid
Dec.-Jan. 2001-02 Albania and Uganda: Evaluation of Human Rights Police Training
Oct.-Dec. 2000 Nigeria, South Indian and Norway: Evaluation of the Norwegian
Human Rights Fund.
May 2000 Pre-appraisal, DCHR Benin Support
Oct. 1999 Nepal, review of DCHR Support
Sep. 1999 South Africa, Project advising on monitoring and evaluation procedures
Aug.-Sep. 1999 Niger, assessing human rights situation
May 1998 Zimbabwe and Malawi. Capacity Assessment of Research and NGO Institutions concerning democracy and human rights
Sep.-Oct. 1998 Ukraine. UNDP Conference on Poverty and Rights
Nov. 1997 Rwanda. Human rights country assessment
Sep. 1997 Rwanda. Human rights country assessment
Jun. 1997 Indonesia. Course Leader in field course for university students in development studies and geography
Sep.-Oct. 1996 Tanzania. Field Research in Iringa District
Jul.-Sep. 1995 Tanzania. Field Research in Iringa District
Apr. 1994 Zambia. Review of Bangweulu Wetlands Project
Jun.-Sep. 1993 Tanzania, research on politics and impact of agricultural marketing and pricing.
Aug.-Dec. 1992 Tanzania, research on politics and impact of agricultural marketing and pricing.
Oct.-Dec. 1990-91 Niger, Projet Danois, Etudes Suivi et Evaluation.
Oct.-Dec. 1988 Zambia, research on changes in
Sep.-Dec. 1987 Agricultural policy and their implications.
Oct.-Nov. 1983 Nigeria, research on government policy and rice production.
Oct. 1980 Nigeria, Research on agricultural policies and their implications.
Dec.-Jan. 1974-75 India, preparation for master's thesis.

Select Publications (a full list can be found here)
1998 with Lone Lindholt. Rwanda 1997. An Analysis of Human Rights and Politics. Copenhagen, Danish Centre for Human Rights.

1999 With Louise Krabbe Boserup Analyse descriptive de la situation des droits de l’homme au Niger. Copenhague, Centre Danois des droits de l’homme.

2000 Human Rights and Development. The Partial but necessary in Integration of Human Rights and Development. Human Rights Quarterly, 22 (3).

2000 Human rights in Benin. Perspective on Danish Assistance, DCHR July.

2000 with Lone Lindholt. Human Rights Indicators 2000. Country Data and Methodology.

2001 with Vasudeavan Gayathri, Ayoola Modupe Obe, Gunnar Olesen and Nell Rasmussen. Evaluation of the Norwegian Human Rights Fund. Evaluation Report 1/2001, Norwegian Ministry of Foreign Affairs

2001 with Morten Kjærum. Human Rights as a Tool of Conflict Management. Conflict Prevention and Peace-building in Africa. Report from the Maputo Conference. Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Danida.

2002 With Chris Gale. Evaluation of Police Human Rights Training Projects in Albania and Uganda. DCHR.

2002 With Birgit Lindsnæs and Hatla Thelle. Human Rights in Action. Strategy Choices at theDanish Centre for Human Rights. An Assessment of Success Stories, Trade Offs and Failures. Paper presented to Carnegie Foundation and United Nations University Conference on Ethics in Action, New York 2002.

2002 Hans-Otto Sano and Gudmundur Alfredsson in collaboration with Robin Clapp(eds.). Human Rights and Good Governance. Building Bridges. The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library, vol. 9. Kluwer, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague/Boston/London (fortcoming March/April 2002).

2002 with Torben Birch-Thomsen, Pia Frederiksen. A Livelihood Perspective on Natural Resource Management and Environmental Change in Semi-Arid Tanzania. Economic Geography, vol. 77, 1 January.

2002 With Birgit Lindsnæs and Hatla Thelle. Human Rights in Action. Strategy Choices at theDanish Centre for Human Rights. An Assessment of Success Stories, Trade Offs and Failures. Paper presented to Carnegie Foundation and United Nations University Conference on Ethics in Action, New York 2002.

2002 Hans-Otto Sano and Gudmundur Alfredsson in collaboration with Robin Clapp(eds.). Human Rights and Good Governance. Building Bridges. The Raoul Wallenberg Institute Human Rights Library, vol. 9. Kluwer, Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, The Hague/Boston/London March 2002.

2003 Hans-Otto Sano and Karin Poulsen (eds). Demokrati og fattigdom i det sydlige Afrika. Institut for Menneskerettigheder. [Democracy and Poverty in Southern Africa]

2003 Hans-Otto Sano. National Human Rights Institutions. Global review OHCHR Technical Cooperation Program. Netherlands Institute of Human Rights (SIM) in partnership with Mede European Consultancy. July 2003.

2003 Bård Anders Andreassen and Hans-Otto Sano. Planning and Assessing Human Rights Projects: Goals, Indicators and Measurement. Report prepared for Norad’s Technical Division, Oslo. June 2003.

2003 Workers Consultation, contribution to the World Bank, IFC: Strengthening Implementation of Corporate Social Responsibility in Global Supply Chains. The World Bank, October.

2003 Hans-Otto Sano. Book review. Review of Bertil Dunér. The Global Human Rights Regime. Lund Studentlitteratur. Cooperation and Conflict. Journal of the Nordic International Studies Association, vol. 38, no. 3, September 2003.

2004 Bård Anders Andreassen and Hans-Otto Sano: What’s the Goal? What’s the Purpose? Observations on Human Rights Impact Assessment. Research Notes. Norwegian Centre for Human Rights. 02/2004.

2004 Kim U. Kjær, Rikke Frank Jørgensen, Peter Vedel kessing, Hans-Otto Sano og Peter Scharff Smith. "Menneskeretssituationen i Danmark 1999-2003" i: Nordisk Tidsskrift for Menneskerettigheter Vol. 22, Nr. 2.

2004 Hans-Otto Sano. Økonomiske og sociale menneskerettigheder i: Sociale menneskerettigheder s. 257-276. Hatla Thelle og Ida Elisabeth Koch (red). Akademisk Forlag, 2004

2005 Hans-Otto Sano. Er god regeringsførelse et globalt offentligt gode? i: På vej mod nye globale strategier: Offentlige goder og menneskerettigheder, s. 225-242. Erik André Andersen, Stig Rée og Birgit Lindsnæs (red.), DJØF-forlag 2005.

2006 Hans-Otto Sano. "Human Rights Reinforcement and Globalisation: Reflections about Global Governance", pp. 49-70. Stéphanie Lagoutte, Hans-Otto Sano and Peter Scharff Smith. "Introduction", pp. 1-6. Both in Stéphanie Lagoutte, Hans-Otto Sano and Peter Scharff Smith (eds.) Human Rights in Turmoil. Facing Threats, Consolidating Achievements. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 302 p.

2006 Birgit Lindsnaes, Hans-Otto Sano and Hatle Thelle. "Human rights in action: supporting human rights work in authoritarian countries" In: Daniel A. Bell and Jean-Marc Coicaud (eds.) Ethics in Action. The Ethical Challenges of International Human Rights Nongovernmental Organizations, Cambridge University Press, 2006

2006 Hans-Otto Sano. "Human Rights Reinforcement and Globalisation: Reflections about Global Governance", pp. 49-70. Stéphanie Lagoutte, Hans-Otto Sano and Peter Scharff Smith. "Introduction", pp. 1-6. Both in Stéphanie Lagoutte, Hans-Otto Sano and Peter Scharff Smith (eds.) Human Rights in Turmoil. Facing Threats, Consolidating Achievements. Martinus Nijhoff Publishers, 302 p., 2006