Public Lecture: The European Union in the Pacific
Public Lecture: The European Union in the
Pacific
Its role, its relationships, its
contribution
H.E. Wiepke van der Goot, Ambassador of
the European Commission to the Pacific
and
H.E. Aldo
Dell’Ariccia, Ambassador of the European Commission to
Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu
Date Monday, 10th March 2008
Time 5.00pm – 6.30pm
Venue Lecture Theatre 4, Law School, Old
Government Buildings,
Victoria University
of Wellington, Lambton Quay
To register your attendance, telephone the Delegation of
the European Commission on 04 472 9145, or email
delegation-new-zealand-secretary@ec.europa.eu.
Wiepke van der Goot joined the European Commission in
1981 and has previously served in Delegations in Somalia,
Madagascar and Kenya. He was Ambassador to Malawi from
2001-2005 before returning to headquarters to manage the
Water and Energy Facility Unit at the EuropeAid Cooperation
Office. In November 2007 he was posted as Ambassador to the
Pacific, a responsibility covering 11 Pacific Islands
countries.
Wiepke van der Goot is a Dutch national and studied at Wageningen Agricultural University, graduating with a Masters Degree in Tropical Land Management. Before joining the European Commission , he worked on development projects for the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation, the World Bank and Development Alternatives Inc, a private US firm.
Aldo Dell’Ariccia joined the European Commission in 1988 and has served in Delegations in India, Costa Rica and Thailand. He opened the EC Delegation to Cambodia in Phnom Penh before being posted at the Commission headquarters in Brussels as the Deputy Head of the South East Asia Unit at the External Relations Directorate-General, dealing in particular with Indonesia and East Timor. Since 2006 he has been the Ambassador to Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu.
Aldo Dell’Ariccia was born in Rome, Italy. After post-graduate studies in Social and Political Sciences and Economics at the University of Geneva in Switzerland, he lectured on epistemology at the university. In a varied career before joining the Commission, he also worked as a UN volunteer and consultant in Central America, as a journalist, and as a director of a health project in Colombia.
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