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Jan Egeland

Norwegian public official
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September 12, 1957, Stavanger, Norway (age 67)
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Sudan in danger of becoming a failed state, Jan Egeland warns • Nov. 24, 2024, 9:18 PM ET (BBC)

Jan Egeland (born September 12, 1957, Stavanger, Norway) is a Norwegian public official who served as head of United Nations (UN) humanitarian and relief efforts from 2003 to 2006. Egeland earned a bachelor’s degree in political science from the University of Oslo (1982) and studied as a Fulbright scholar at the University of California, Berkeley (1982–83). He served as a fellow at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace in Jerusalem before returning to the University of Oslo to earn a master’s degree in political science (1985). Although he worked briefly as a radio and television reporter for the ...(100 of 431 words)

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