Director

Jakob Erle

The Board of the Danish Egyptian Dialogue Institute has appointed Jakob Erle as new director of the Institute. He assumed the position on 15 January 2011 when the Institute’s former Director, Dr. Rasmus Alenius Boserup, stepped back.

Jakob Erle has a Master of Arts in Cultural Sociology and is a prominent exponent of Danish non-formal adult education, where he has worked for more than 20 years - among other things as principal for Borups Højskole. He has played an important role in bringing the Danish experiences with non-formal adult education into an international arena as president for Association for World Education.

As a former director for the International Academy for Education and Democracy, Erle has furthermore since 2001 developed methods for dialogue and implemented international dialogue processes about the relation between globalization and democracy.

An important part of this work has been the Arab-Danish dialogue-academies, which he since 2006 has implemented in collaboration with DEDI. One of the results of this work was that Erle in 2009 was honored with the title of “Dialogue Star of the Year” by the users of www.islamonline.net.

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