{"id":53068,"date":"2017-06-15T19:58:47","date_gmt":"2017-06-15T19:58:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/?p=53068"},"modified":"2017-06-30T13:58:19","modified_gmt":"2017-06-30T13:58:19","slug":"welcome-to-our-new-program-coordinator","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/2017\/06\/15\/welcome-to-our-new-program-coordinator\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to our New Program Coordinator"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our new Program Coordinator in Namibia,\u00a0Alex Sikume!<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-53070\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/43\/2017\/06\/Alex-Sikume-Staff-Photo.jpg\" alt=\"Alex Sikume Staff Photo\" width=\"227\" height=\"247\" \/>Alex Sikume is the new Instructor for Political Science and Social Change.\u00a0 He holds a Master\u2019s Degree in Public Management majoring in Policy Analysis from School of Public Policy and Management, Tsinghua University, China. He further holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree majoring in Political Science and Industrial Psychology from the University of Namibia.<\/p>\n<p>Alex worked for the Ministry of Urban and Rural Development for ten years as a Development Planner dealing with issues of local government operations, administration and management. In 2011 he worked for the United Nations Development Programme as a Programme Officer. He further worked as Technical Advisor under the Building Local Capacity Project for Southern Africa within the Management Sciences for Health.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alex has three years of experience working with the Namibia University of Science and Technology teaching courses \u2018Governance and Politics in Africa\u2019 and \u2018Disaster Risk Management\u2019. He also worked with the Namibia Business School of the University of Namibia as a tutor for a work based project course.<\/p>\n<p>Alex is married and is a father of three children. One boy: named Sinvula (9), and two girls: Pumulo (7) and Kahundu (3). Alex stated: \u201cI am grateful for an opportunity awarded to me to work for CGEE and ready to make my contribution\u2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to our new Program Coordinator in Namibia,\u00a0Alex Sikume! Alex Sikume is the new Instructor for Political Science and Social &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":236,"featured_media":53069,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-get-to-know-us","category-southern-africa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/236"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53072,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53068\/revisions\/53072"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/global\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}