Hedvig Christine Alexander

Founder & CEO

 Hedvig Alexander is a development expert with a decade of international relations & charity experience, including 7+ years of work in Afghanistan. 
Prior to establishing Far & Wide Collective (previously named Jali Designs), Hedvig Christine Alexander was the Managing Director for Turquoise Mountain – a not-for-profit development organization with four hundred staff operating in Afghanistan under the Prince of Wales’ Charities – from August 2008 to March 2009. In this position she managed a major regeneration project in the old city of Kabul and four new schools training young Afghans in traditional arts and crafts. Prior to this Hedvig was the Business Development Director for Turquoise Mountain from April 2007 to July 2008. She also established and ran Building markets (formerly named Peace Dividend Trust - a Canadian NGO) in Afghanistan from December 2005 to February 2007– promoting local procurement of goods and services in Afghanistan to boost local business. She worked with the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in Kabul from November 2002 to November 2005 – including on the last National Assembly elections – and served with ISAF (also in Afghanistan) as an army captain from July to October 2002. Hedvig has served as a United Nations Military Observer in Abkhazia, Georgia and worked for the Danish Embassy in Moscow. She received her B.A. from Copenhagen Business School in philosophy and economy and her M.A. from Yale University in the United States in international relations. Hedvig lives in Ajax Ontario with her husband and two daughters.
Hedvig Christine Alexander
Founder & CEO
Far + Wide Collective

Website:
www.farandwidecollective.com

Phone:
9179035043

Address:
126 East 61st Street

New York City, New York
United States

Areas of Expertise:
Afghanistan
DEVELOPMENT
International Relations
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