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| | NDI - National Democratic Institute for International Affairs (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03) |
 | | Bjarte Tørå brings more than 30 years of experience in democratic development in general and political parties in particular to his position as country director for NDI's program in Nairobi, Kenya. |
 | | In those capacities, he directed training programs for all levels of the party organization, and organized CDP support for the development and democratization of political parties in countries such as Bosnia-Herzegovina, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Russia, among others. |
 | | Tørå was an elected official in Norway for 16 years, serving as a member of a municipal council, deputy member of a county council and deputy member of parliament. |
| www.ndi.org /about/staff/bios/africa_se/torab_pf.asp (169 words) |
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