Sven Mauleon

Sven Mauleon was born and raised in Sweden but spent most of his professional career abroad after his M.B.A., civilekonom, in Sweden His first formative years in London, working for the then leading international ICT company, Xerox. He spent much time as an international management consultant in Western Europe, mainly Scandinavia, France and Germany.

Sven Mauleon was one of the first international consultants to be invited to work in Eastern Europe during the historic transformation from communism to democracy and market economy. 1987- 89 he worked in Hungary where the iron curtain or rather barbed wire was first to fall. In the early 1990s he worked in Poland heading an international and Polish consultant team, invited by the new non communist Polish government, with a mission to guide Polish enterprises from central planning to a market oriented economy. Work included bringing potential entrepreneurs and Polish state enterprise managers together in action learning based business management training. Later in the 1990s he was commissioned by the UN, UNIDO, to head a similar mission in Russia, Kaliningrad. He also worked in the Baltic republics with similar missions.

In the late 198os and early 1990s he lectured at a pioneer and successful international Masters in Marketing program at the Thammasath University, Bangkok, Thailand. He designed its first strategy and international marketing courses.

In the late 1990s he worked in Brusselles, Belgium as head of a European consulting firm designing and supporting cross European cooperation projects.

In 2001 he set up a pioneer computer training program in rural villages in Thailand and in 2002 he cofounded OpenmindProjects together with a young Thai social entrepreneur from a village in northeast Thailand, Thaweesilph Lunchaiyapha, inviting international volunteers to participate in an increasing number of education and eco projects in Thailand, Laos, Cambodia and Nepal.

OpenmindProjects has been recognized by UNESCO, recommended by CNN, Lonely Planet, and a finalist in the Stockholm Challenge Award for outstanding ICT for development projects.

Sven Mauleon has authored and co authored numerous articles on management, education, eco tourism, development and environmental protection.

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