Pär Stenbäck
Pär Stenbäck is a Finnish politician and debater. He received an honorary minister title in 1999. Stenbäck has been a member of the city council of Espoo, and also the Finnish parliament. He was the Minister of Education, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Party Leader of the Swedish People's Party.
He has also been the general secretary for the International Federation of the Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies in Geneva from 1988 to 1992. Between 1992 and 1997 he functioned as the Secretary General of the Nordic Council of Ministers in Copenhagen. In 1991, he took part in the founding of the International Youth Foundation, now situated in Baltimore, as a director 1991–1996, thereafter as VP for Europe until 2005. In 1995, he became a founding board member of the International Crisis Group.
In 2001, together with ambassador K-E.Norrman, he founded the European Cultural Parliament, where he is the Chairman of the Senate. In the same year, he founded the Finnish Children and Youth Foundation and acted as its board chair until 2012. In June 2017, he founded the foreign policy association "Nya Utrikespolitiska Samfundet".
Stenbäck has published two books depicting his career in politics and in the Red Cross/Red Crescent movement.
