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Who's who in Tvind - 2
Major players
Minor players
Index
Graham Bail
Johan Bendtsen
Henning Bjornlund
Ester Boere
Fred de Borst
Janice Bostic
Jocelyn Boudry
Steen Byrner
Maria Darsbo
Mike Day
Borge Dethlefsen
Birgit Dinesen-Jensen
Wendy Dunnett-Dagg
Ulla Brit Envall
Allan Foighel
Annicken Groenvold
Marja Hedlund
Oyestvein Jacobsen
Jane Broen Jensen
Inger Lise Jepson
Poul Joergensen
Ann Jonsson
Kimo Karsikis
Marcus Kozok
Poul Lange
Anne Lausen
Helle Lund
Anne-Marie Masden
Eva Nielsen
Jytte
Nielsen
Jesper Pedersen
Michael Rogers
Veren Schafer
Merete Utke Schioler
Birgit Soe
Torben Soe
Elise Srensen
Else Grue Srensen
Ulrike Stolsch
Ann Thompson
Ole Thomsen
Joop Trompert
Jan Utzon
Mattias Wallander
Jesper Wohlert
B
Planet Aid UK (probably not a TG member)
U'SAgain, Chicago/Seattle. Danish. TG member for around 8 years. Recruited from the Travelling High School - no further formal qualifications. Supposedly 'contracted to U'SAgain' by Garson & Shaw, for $4,500 a month, according to correspondents, but in fact Operations Manager for Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, and is currently in charge of Seattle. Shares a rented house in Algonquin with Wallander and Bostic. July 2003
Adelaide, Australia. Danish. Alleged 'financial mastermind' of Tvind in 1970-1989 and chief architect of its expansion into profit-making real estate. Bjornlund is reported to have conceived the idea of buying huge commercial landholdings in the Caribbean, central and south America with the public money raised by Tvind.
Bjornlund left Denmark mysteriously in 1989, reportedly with a 'golden handshake' of $100,000 and resettled in Australia where he is now, ironically, a research fellow in international property markets at the University of South Australia. It is not known if he is still in the Teachers Group but he is believed to still support Tvind.
In 1995, the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet tracked Bjornlund down to his home in Adelaide where he reportedly admitted that Tvind was 'all about profit' and boasted that "I bought all Tvinds plantations abroad and have represented Tvinds corporate finances, until I left the firm five years ago." Full article.
A reader of Tvind Alert has asked other visitors to write to the university vice chancellor, Denise Bradley, drawing attention to Bjornlund's past involvement with Tvind. See Tvind Alert Forum (The Chat Room - Henning Bjornlund)
Ester Boere - Principal, KNEC, South Africa (2002)
Head of product development at Tvind company in China, Trayton Furniture.. Principal (sole) shareholder of Dutch used clothes company ConMore bv. In 2002, registered as resident at Keizersgracht 316, Maarsen, Amsterdam, Holland, the company address of ConMore bv, along with Inger Lise Jepson. (2002)
(Both 'living' at the same address as where the firm is listed: Keizersgracht 316)
In charge, Humana Belgium (2004) more
President, U'SAgain Janice Marie Bostic has been with the TG for approximately 22 years. Recruited as volunteer at Aka Pecha International College, Virginia, USA (now closed). Has got a degree in social work from an American school. Attended Tvind colleges in Denmark and worked in Miami. Started U'SAgain in Seattle, 1999. Now president of U'SAgain, based in Chicago covering Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Seattle and Portland. Believed to have a TG husband, Michael, a 'Tvind accountant', assigned outside the USA. Shares a rented house in Algonquin with Wallander and Bendtsen. Updated July 2003
Danish. Male. According to Danish police, 'centrally placed' in Tvind in
the years 1987-92. Described as a 'financial director'. It is believed
he was at one time president of BB Shipping in the Cayman Islands,
associated with the One World Institute in Norway and company director
and secretary of Mt Lezard Estate Ltd (UK - a company managing property
in St Lucia). In 2000 he was running a bookshop (or publisher?) in
Denmark called "forlaget HansGDal", which also uses the name
and Internet address 'One World'. Not known if he is still associated
with the Teachers Group.
Charged with fraud and tax evasion by Danish prosecution.
C
D
Zimbabwe. "Chairperson of the Federation for
Associations
connected to the International HUMANA People to People Movement"
IICD Massachusetts (2003). Mike Day writes:
Atlanta. Formerly manager, Trade Link Almaty.
Birgit
Dinesen-Jensen
Danish. Female. Dinesen is a director of the
Tvind company ConMore BV in Maarssen, Holland. In 1999 she allegedly
fled from Budapest (Hungary) to Nairobi (Kenya) together with Flemming
Gustaffson because the Hungarian tax authorities suspected them of tax
evasion in relation to the Tvind company Textile Transformation EC
Trading. EC Trading went bankrupt in May 2000.
Hope, Zambia
E
ADPP Clothes and Shoes Sales, Mozambique. Swedish. In Tvind system since early 80s. Travelling Folk High School, Teacher, project leader Zambia, Mozambique 1994.
F
Danish. Garson and Shaw, Atlanta. Formerly based in Holland, then moved to London to found Garson and Shaw in UK, successor to disgraced company EC Trading (Amsterdam). Rooms with Poul Joergensen of U'SAgain, Borge Dethlefsen, Lisa Jepson and Ann Jonsson. Father is a well-known Danish academic. July 2003
G
Norwegian, long-standing TG member. Recently
active in old clothes trading in Europe, Russia and probably the USA.
A correspondent writes: "The 'Anneken' mentioned in the Tvind
Alert information about Great Lakes [newly identified Tvind company in
the USA] could be Annicken Groenvald, Norwegian and member of TG.
She oversaw the complete startup of the business in Russia. Some
branches are active still today in Garson and Shaw since EC Trading went
bust."
H
Mozambique clothes sales, Beira. Swedish. In Tvind since 1975, on early Travelling High School journey to India. Teacher, Travelling High School, Sweden (now closed). UFF Sweden, 1980-87, UFF Finland 1987-1991, Beira 1996.
I
J
Teachers Group 1991-2003, now left. Oystein sent the following message to Tvind Alert:
Hi there,
Honestly what kind of web site is this? I was a member of the Teachers Group from 1991 - 2003. These were the best years of my life. Then I saw my name under "Who's who in Tvind?" on this site. I didn't know that I had such an influence. Fair enough, I don't mind but you could at least get the name right. It's ystein Kvarv Jacobsen or in english Oeystein Kvarv Jacobsen.
I would like to be very open about my time in TG, so anyone that have questions about anything, please send me a line or two. I used to work at the Institute for International Cooperation and Development, IICD in Massachusetts from 2001-2003. Before that I worked in Denmark as a teacher and a headmaster/director for one of the schools there. I'm very concerned with misinformation in the media as I feel is getting more and more common, and sometimes the norm.
I had a very positive period in TG and I look back on great times of amazing results. Therefore I'd like to share these good experiences with everyone who is interested. This web-site is not known by being objective and fair, but honestly, I have nothing to loose. I just flipped through your pages and was depressed looking at all those with a negative experience, like Steen Thomson and other like-minded like him. All respect to the man, but honestly, if you are a part of something like the TG for twenty something years and then regret it afterwards like he does, I have problems understanding his way of thinking. Anyway, that was a side-track.
Feel free write to me at: hugoflove@yahoo.com
All the best to you guys...and remember; - be humble
:-) Jacob
Zambia, responsible for finding funding partners (Partnership in Development). Danish, b 1963. Solidarity worker, Mozambique, 1985. Project leader, "Escola dos Continuadores" and "Centro de Cultura", ADPP Mozambique. Moved to DAPP in Zambia, 1989. Now in charge off all Hope Projects and Hope Stations in Zambia.
Garson and Shaw, Atlanta. Rooms with Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen and Ann Jonsson also of Garson and Shaw and Poul Joergensen of U'SAgain. In Holland, listed as a director of ConMore bv, sales agent for Garson and Shaw. In 2002, registered as resident at Keizersgracht 316, Maarsen, Amsterdam, Holland, the company address of ConMore bv, along with Fred de Borst. Previously may have worked at Floryl plantation, Brazil for some years July 2003
U'SAgain, Atlanta. A long-standing member of the Teachers Group (but not the same Poul Joergensen as the Tvind 'spokesman' who is charged with tax evasion in Denmark). Responsible for U'SAgain in Atlanta, Houston, Ft. Worth, New York and - soon - Philadelphia. Rooms with Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen, Lisa Jepson and Ann Jonsson of Garson and Shaw July 2003
Garson and Shaw, Atlanta. Former manager of Tvind company Holland Trading, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (central Asia). Rooms with Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen and Lisa Jepson also of Garson and Shaw and Poul Joergensen of U'SAgain
K
IICD Massachusetts (2003)
Believed to have once been in charge of TG 'management trainees' in former eastern Europe and Russia, and former headmaster, Denmark. Now reported to have left TG
L
Leader, TCE programme, Namibia. Mentioned here.
Anne Lausen
Angola
Gaia, Chicago. Helle Lund, one of the managers of Gaia in north America, was previously company secretary and director of Humana UK - the British used-clothes charity closed down in 1997-8 by the Charity Commission.
M
Principal, DRH Holsted (2002). With Tvind appx 20 years. Formerly (appx 1987) at Tvind cattle ranch in Queensland, Australia, 'run out of town'. Son works for Tvind, China.
N
CEO, Gaia, Chicago. With the Teachers Group since the beginning - at least 32 years. Currently head of Gaia, Chicago. Aged about 55 (in April 02). A former teacher at Tvind schools, then project leader in Honduras, Armenia, Africa and India. Rents an apartment in downtown Chicago July 2003
Jytte
Nielsen
Danish. Female. A long-standing member of the Teachers Group, who has been
involved in Tvind clothes collection and schools in several European
countries including Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, the UK, Austria,
Sweden and of course Denmark. In the mid-1990s her address was given as
Brussels. She now has a residence in Maarn, Holland. In the house next
to her live TG-members Birgit Dinesen-Jensen and Mikala Gottlob. Dinesen
is director of the Tvind-company ConMore BV in Maarssen. ConMore buys
the textiles from Humana in Europe for export. Jytte Nielsen has been a
member of the Teachers Group since the early seventies. Learned about
clothes trading in Aarhus, Denmark. Now director of Humana Holland.
She has been involved with many controversial Tvind enterprises. She was
a trustee of Humana UK in the 1980s-1990s, and one of those dismissed by
the UK Charity Commission following investigations into its financial
affairs in 1996. She has also held official positions in Humana France
(secretary and treasurer) just before it was wound up following French
government allegations of unpaid taxes. She was a member of the council
and a director of the Small School at Red House, UK (1994), prior to the
school's closure by the authorities. Nielsen is currently vice-president
of Humana Austria, a director of Humana Sweden and according to herself
also connected to Humana in Spain.
O
P
In charge, UFF Norway.
more
Q
R
PICTURE WANTED
Geneva, Switzerland. British-born Lawyer. Probably not a member of the TG but a signatory of the Gaia-Movement Trust in Geneva. According to a press statement by World Wrestling Entertainment, which is in dispute with Rogers, he was controversially involved in establishing Dar Al Maal Al Islam, an Islamic charity. As well as being a Gaia signatory, Rogers provided Gaia with an accommodation address and forwarded correspondence to Tvind in Amsterdam.
S
Zambia - wholesale clothing. German. Trained at Travelling Folk High School in Norway, volunteer fundraiser in South Africa and New Delhi. Zambia since November 1999.
Bunnik, Holland, late 90s. Director, Planet Aid UK (2000).
Green World Recycling, UK
Planet Aid UK. Partner of Torben Soe.
Child Aid, Zambia
Leader, TCE programme, Namibia. More about Else Grue Soerensen and the TCE programme here.
IICD Massachusetts (2003)
T
Malawi. DAPP Clothes and Shoes, Blantyre. Travelling High School, 1991, then Angola. DAPP Malawi since 1995.
British. Runs clothes operation for DAPP, Malawi (2003) . more
Humana, Holland. Worked as 'number two' to Lars Malte Hansen at Unicorn Trans World Trading bv, later for the disgraced EC Trading. Currently with Human Holland at Bunnik. Exact Teachers Group status unknown, but clearly associated with TG clothes companies in Holland. (Sept 2003)
U
Architect, member of famous Danish architectural dynasty - a relative designed Sydney Opera House. Probably not a TG member. Tvind supporter. Architect of many Tvind buildings including DNS Chimoio (Mozambique), DNS Cabinda (Angola), IICD (Michigan) and one of the Chinese factories as well as the Zimbabwe HQ.
V
CEO, U'SAgain. Swedish. TG member for about 12 years (already has his 'TG watch'). Recruited from the Travelling High School - no further formal qualifications. Joined U'SAgain approximately 2000, and currently CEO, based in Chicago. Covers Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Seattle and Portland. Became US citizen in appx 2002. Shares a rented house in Algonquin with Bendtsen and Bostic. Updated July 2003
Jesper
Wohlert
Danish. Male. Based in Barcelona, Spain. 'Project manager'. President of Humana in
Spain and Portugal. Director of Planet Aid UK, former board member of
Humana Holland, Humana Germany. Trained at Tvind. Previously associated
with: Humana UK (director), Resources Recycling Ltd (shareholder), All
Europe Satellite TV Ltd (director), Small School at Red House (member of
council), Humana France (president and secretary) Humana Gent, Belgium
(manager). Calls himself a project leader on the website humana.org, one
of the international websites of Tvind. He disappeared out of the board of Humana Holland, together with Teachers
Group member Erik-Dorph Jensen, shortly after publications in the
Dutch press in which Wohlert was mentioned.
Birgit
Dinesen-Jensen
Danish. Female. Resident in Maarn, Holland. Dinesen is director of the
Tvind company ConMore BV in Maarssen, Holland. In 1999 she allegedly
fled from Budapest (Hungary) to Nairobi (Kenia) together with Flemming
Gustaffson because the Hungarian tax authorities suspected them of tax
evasion in relation to the Tvind company Textile Transformation EC
Trading in Amsterdam. EC Trading went bankrupt in May 2000.
Mikala
Gottlob
Danish. Female. Resident in Maarn, Holland in the same house as Birgit
Dinesen. Gottlob was connected as a chairman to Humana UK and to
Winestead Hall School in Hull, UK. Both organisations were closed
down by the British Charity Commission. Current whereabouts unknown.
Erik-Dorph
Jensen
Danish. Male. Based in Barcelona, same adress as Jesper Wohlert. Recently associated with Humana Holland, but left shortly after several
publications about Humana in the Dutch press. Has
also been associated with Humana Spain and Humana France (closed down in
1996 after financial irregularities).
Niels
Peter Holst
Danish. Male. Said to be Tvind's 'chief accountant' in 1998. Officially resident in
Britain. Composer of the secret internal memo of Tvind concerning moving
money away gained by clothes collecting in Europe. The publication of
the memo (dated 24-9-1995) on Dutch television and in Eindhovens Dagblad
caused a Dutch Member of Parliament to call for an Europe-wide investigation
into Humana in the year 2002.
Steen
Conradsen
Danish. Male. Was
involved in several Tvind schools - Director Small School at Red House
(1994), member of Council Management Small School at Red House
(1994), Director Red House Management (1998). Also he was a board member
of the Humanitarian Fund (2001).
Conradsen, a well-known and influential TG member, described in the
media how he's seen Tvind for many years: 'In the 70s we were the
communist commune, training guerilla soldiers in the field. In the 80s
were the cult, brainwashing people and in the 90s it is the economy of
the Teachers Group that is being focused on.'
Basically Conradsen believes that society wants to eliminate Tvind. But
it is a fight against wind mills, he insists. 'Many are against us, but
also many are with us. We have a good school with a theory of education
so good that people are still supporting us. We see that when social
workers, municipalities, parents and all the other authorities still
believe, that it is a good idea to send people to a Tvind-institution.'
Major players
Minor players
Index
Graham Bail
Johan Bendtsen
Henning Bjornlund
Ester Boere
Fred de Borst
Janice Bostic
Jocelyn Boudry
Steen Byrner
Maria Darsbo
Mike Day
Borge Dethlefsen
Birgit Dinesen-Jensen
Wendy Dunnett-Dagg
Ulla Brit Envall
Allan Foighel
Annicken Groenvold
Marja Hedlund
Oyestvein Jacobsen
Jane Broen Jensen
Inger Lise Jepson
Poul Joergensen
Ann Jonsson
Kimo Karsikis
Marcus Kozok
Poul Lange
Anne Lausen
Helle Lund
Anne-Marie Masden
Eva Nielsen
Jytte
Nielsen
Jesper Pedersen
Michael Rogers
Veren Schafer
Merete Utke Schioler
Birgit Soe
Torben Soe
Elise Srensen
Else Grue Srensen
Ulrike Stolsch
Ann Thompson
Ole Thomsen
Joop Trompert
Jan Utzon
Mattias Wallander
Jesper Wohlert
B
Planet Aid UK (probably not a TG member)
U'SAgain, Chicago/Seattle. Danish. TG member for around 8 years. Recruited from the Travelling High School - no further formal qualifications. Supposedly 'contracted to U'SAgain' by Garson & Shaw, for $4,500 a month, according to correspondents, but in fact Operations Manager for Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, and is currently in charge of Seattle. Shares a rented house in Algonquin with Wallander and Bostic. July 2003
Adelaide, Australia. Danish. Alleged 'financial mastermind' of Tvind in 1970-1989 and chief architect of its expansion into profit-making real estate. Bjornlund is reported to have conceived the idea of buying huge commercial landholdings in the Caribbean, central and south America with the public money raised by Tvind.
Bjornlund left Denmark mysteriously in 1989, reportedly with a 'golden handshake' of $100,000 and resettled in Australia where he is now, ironically, a research fellow in international property markets at the University of South Australia. It is not known if he is still in the Teachers Group but he is believed to still support Tvind.
In 1995, the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet tracked Bjornlund down to his home in Adelaide where he reportedly admitted that Tvind was 'all about profit' and boasted that "I bought all Tvinds plantations abroad and have represented Tvinds corporate finances, until I left the firm five years ago." Full article.
A reader of Tvind Alert has asked other visitors to write to the university vice chancellor, Denise Bradley, drawing attention to Bjornlund's past involvement with Tvind. See Tvind Alert Forum (The Chat Room - Henning Bjornlund)
Ester Boere - Principal, KNEC, South Africa (2002)
Head of product development at Tvind company in China, Trayton Furniture.. Principal (sole) shareholder of Dutch used clothes company ConMore bv. In 2002, registered as resident at Keizersgracht 316, Maarsen, Amsterdam, Holland, the company address of ConMore bv, along with Inger Lise Jepson. (2002)
(Both 'living' at the same address as where the firm is listed: Keizersgracht 316)
In charge, Humana Belgium (2004) more
President, U'SAgain Janice Marie Bostic has been with the TG for approximately 22 years. Recruited as volunteer at Aka Pecha International College, Virginia, USA (now closed). Has got a degree in social work from an American school. Attended Tvind colleges in Denmark and worked in Miami. Started U'SAgain in Seattle, 1999. Now president of U'SAgain, based in Chicago covering Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Seattle and Portland. Believed to have a TG husband, Michael, a 'Tvind accountant', assigned outside the USA. Shares a rented house in Algonquin with Wallander and Bendtsen. Updated July 2003
Danish. Male. According to Danish police, 'centrally placed' in Tvind in
the years 1987-92. Described as a 'financial director'. It is believed
he was at one time president of BB Shipping in the Cayman Islands,
associated with the One World Institute in Norway and company director
and secretary of Mt Lezard Estate Ltd (UK - a company managing property
in St Lucia). In 2000 he was running a bookshop (or publisher?) in
Denmark called "forlaget HansGDal", which also uses the name
and Internet address 'One World'. Not known if he is still associated
with the Teachers Group.
Charged with fraud and tax evasion by Danish prosecution.
C
D
Zimbabwe. "Chairperson of the Federation for
Associations
connected to the International HUMANA People to People Movement"
IICD Massachusetts (2003). Mike Day writes:
Atlanta. Formerly manager, Trade Link Almaty.
Birgit
Dinesen-Jensen
Danish. Female. Dinesen is a director of the
Tvind company ConMore BV in Maarssen, Holland. In 1999 she allegedly
fled from Budapest (Hungary) to Nairobi (Kenya) together with Flemming
Gustaffson because the Hungarian tax authorities suspected them of tax
evasion in relation to the Tvind company Textile Transformation EC
Trading. EC Trading went bankrupt in May 2000.
Hope, Zambia
E
ADPP Clothes and Shoes Sales, Mozambique. Swedish. In Tvind system since early 80s. Travelling Folk High School, Teacher, project leader Zambia, Mozambique 1994.
F
Danish. Garson and Shaw, Atlanta. Formerly based in Holland, then moved to London to found Garson and Shaw in UK, successor to disgraced company EC Trading (Amsterdam). Rooms with Poul Joergensen of U'SAgain, Borge Dethlefsen, Lisa Jepson and Ann Jonsson. Father is a well-known Danish academic. July 2003
G
Norwegian, long-standing TG member. Recently
active in old clothes trading in Europe, Russia and probably the USA.
A correspondent writes: "The 'Anneken' mentioned in the Tvind
Alert information about Great Lakes [newly identified Tvind company in
the USA] could be Annicken Groenvald, Norwegian and member of TG.
She oversaw the complete startup of the business in Russia. Some
branches are active still today in Garson and Shaw since EC Trading went
bust."
H
Mozambique clothes sales, Beira. Swedish. In Tvind since 1975, on early Travelling High School journey to India. Teacher, Travelling High School, Sweden (now closed). UFF Sweden, 1980-87, UFF Finland 1987-1991, Beira 1996.
I
J
Teachers Group 1991-2003, now left. Oystein sent the following message to Tvind Alert:
Hi there,
Honestly what kind of web site is this? I was a member of the Teachers Group from 1991 - 2003. These were the best years of my life. Then I saw my name under "Who's who in Tvind?" on this site. I didn't know that I had such an influence. Fair enough, I don't mind but you could at least get the name right. It's ystein Kvarv Jacobsen or in english Oeystein Kvarv Jacobsen.
I would like to be very open about my time in TG, so anyone that have questions about anything, please send me a line or two. I used to work at the Institute for International Cooperation and Development, IICD in Massachusetts from 2001-2003. Before that I worked in Denmark as a teacher and a headmaster/director for one of the schools there. I'm very concerned with misinformation in the media as I feel is getting more and more common, and sometimes the norm.
I had a very positive period in TG and I look back on great times of amazing results. Therefore I'd like to share these good experiences with everyone who is interested. This web-site is not known by being objective and fair, but honestly, I have nothing to loose. I just flipped through your pages and was depressed looking at all those with a negative experience, like Steen Thomson and other like-minded like him. All respect to the man, but honestly, if you are a part of something like the TG for twenty something years and then regret it afterwards like he does, I have problems understanding his way of thinking. Anyway, that was a side-track.
Feel free write to me at: hugoflove@yahoo.com
All the best to you guys...and remember; - be humble
:-) Jacob
Zambia, responsible for finding funding partners (Partnership in Development). Danish, b 1963. Solidarity worker, Mozambique, 1985. Project leader, "Escola dos Continuadores" and "Centro de Cultura", ADPP Mozambique. Moved to DAPP in Zambia, 1989. Now in charge off all Hope Projects and Hope Stations in Zambia.
Garson and Shaw, Atlanta. Rooms with Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen and Ann Jonsson also of Garson and Shaw and Poul Joergensen of U'SAgain. In Holland, listed as a director of ConMore bv, sales agent for Garson and Shaw. In 2002, registered as resident at Keizersgracht 316, Maarsen, Amsterdam, Holland, the company address of ConMore bv, along with Fred de Borst. Previously may have worked at Floryl plantation, Brazil for some years July 2003
U'SAgain, Atlanta. A long-standing member of the Teachers Group (but not the same Poul Joergensen as the Tvind 'spokesman' who is charged with tax evasion in Denmark). Responsible for U'SAgain in Atlanta, Houston, Ft. Worth, New York and - soon - Philadelphia. Rooms with Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen, Lisa Jepson and Ann Jonsson of Garson and Shaw July 2003
Garson and Shaw, Atlanta. Former manager of Tvind company Holland Trading, Tbilisi, Republic of Georgia (central Asia). Rooms with Allan Foighel, Borge Dethlefsen and Lisa Jepson also of Garson and Shaw and Poul Joergensen of U'SAgain
K
IICD Massachusetts (2003)
Believed to have once been in charge of TG 'management trainees' in former eastern Europe and Russia, and former headmaster, Denmark. Now reported to have left TG
L
Leader, TCE programme, Namibia. Mentioned here.
Anne Lausen
Angola
Gaia, Chicago. Helle Lund, one of the managers of Gaia in north America, was previously company secretary and director of Humana UK - the British used-clothes charity closed down in 1997-8 by the Charity Commission.
M
Principal, DRH Holsted (2002). With Tvind appx 20 years. Formerly (appx 1987) at Tvind cattle ranch in Queensland, Australia, 'run out of town'. Son works for Tvind, China.
N
CEO, Gaia, Chicago. With the Teachers Group since the beginning - at least 32 years. Currently head of Gaia, Chicago. Aged about 55 (in April 02). A former teacher at Tvind schools, then project leader in Honduras, Armenia, Africa and India. Rents an apartment in downtown Chicago July 2003
Jytte
Nielsen
Danish. Female. A long-standing member of the Teachers Group, who has been
involved in Tvind clothes collection and schools in several European
countries including Holland, Belgium, France, Spain, the UK, Austria,
Sweden and of course Denmark. In the mid-1990s her address was given as
Brussels. She now has a residence in Maarn, Holland. In the house next
to her live TG-members Birgit Dinesen-Jensen and Mikala Gottlob. Dinesen
is director of the Tvind-company ConMore BV in Maarssen. ConMore buys
the textiles from Humana in Europe for export. Jytte Nielsen has been a
member of the Teachers Group since the early seventies. Learned about
clothes trading in Aarhus, Denmark. Now director of Humana Holland.
She has been involved with many controversial Tvind enterprises. She was
a trustee of Humana UK in the 1980s-1990s, and one of those dismissed by
the UK Charity Commission following investigations into its financial
affairs in 1996. She has also held official positions in Humana France
(secretary and treasurer) just before it was wound up following French
government allegations of unpaid taxes. She was a member of the council
and a director of the Small School at Red House, UK (1994), prior to the
school's closure by the authorities. Nielsen is currently vice-president
of Humana Austria, a director of Humana Sweden and according to herself
also connected to Humana in Spain.
O
P
In charge, UFF Norway.
more
Q
R
PICTURE WANTED
Geneva, Switzerland. British-born Lawyer. Probably not a member of the TG but a signatory of the Gaia-Movement Trust in Geneva. According to a press statement by World Wrestling Entertainment, which is in dispute with Rogers, he was controversially involved in establishing Dar Al Maal Al Islam, an Islamic charity. As well as being a Gaia signatory, Rogers provided Gaia with an accommodation address and forwarded correspondence to Tvind in Amsterdam.
S
Zambia - wholesale clothing. German. Trained at Travelling Folk High School in Norway, volunteer fundraiser in South Africa and New Delhi. Zambia since November 1999.
Bunnik, Holland, late 90s. Director, Planet Aid UK (2000).
Green World Recycling, UK
Planet Aid UK. Partner of Torben Soe.
Child Aid, Zambia
Leader, TCE programme, Namibia. More about Else Grue Soerensen and the TCE programme here.
T
Malawi. DAPP Clothes and Shoes, Blantyre. Travelling High School, 1991, then Angola. DAPP Malawi since 1995.
British. Runs clothes operation for DAPP, Malawi (2003) . more
Humana, Holland. Worked as 'number two' to Lars Malte Hansen at Unicorn Trans World Trading bv, later for the disgraced EC Trading. Currently with Human Holland at Bunnik. Exact Teachers Group status unknown, but clearly associated with TG clothes companies in Holland. (Sept 2003)
U
Architect, member of famous Danish architectural dynasty - a relative designed Sydney Opera House. Probably not a TG member. Tvind supporter. Architect of many Tvind buildings including DNS Chimoio (Mozambique), DNS Cabinda (Angola), IICD (Michigan) and one of the Chinese factories as well as the Zimbabwe HQ.
V
CEO, U'SAgain. Swedish. TG member for about 12 years (already has his 'TG watch'). Recruited from the Travelling High School - no further formal qualifications. Joined U'SAgain approximately 2000, and currently CEO, based in Chicago. Covers Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Seattle and Portland. Became US citizen in appx 2002. Shares a rented house in Algonquin with Bendtsen and Bostic. Updated July 2003
Jesper
Wohlert
Danish. Male. Based in Barcelona, Spain. 'Project manager'. President of Humana in
Spain and Portugal. Director of Planet Aid UK, former board member of
Humana Holland, Humana Germany. Trained at Tvind. Previously associated
with: Humana UK (director), Resources Recycling Ltd (shareholder), All
Europe Satellite TV Ltd (director), Small School at Red House (member of
council), Humana France (president and secretary) Humana Gent, Belgium
(manager). Calls himself a project leader on the website humana.org, one
of the international websites of Tvind. He disappeared out of the board of Humana Holland, together with Teachers
Group member Erik-Dorph Jensen, shortly after publications in the
Dutch press in which Wohlert was mentioned.
Birgit
Dinesen-Jensen
Danish. Female. Resident in Maarn, Holland. Dinesen is director of the
Tvind company ConMore BV in Maarssen, Holland. In 1999 she allegedly
fled from Budapest (Hungary) to Nairobi (Kenia) together with Flemming
Gustaffson because the Hungarian tax authorities suspected them of tax
evasion in relation to the Tvind company Textile Transformation EC
Trading in Amsterdam. EC Trading went bankrupt in May 2000.
Mikala
Gottlob
Danish. Female. Resident in Maarn, Holland in the same house as Birgit
Dinesen. Gottlob was connected as a chairman to Humana UK and to
Winestead Hall School in Hull, UK. Both organisations were closed
down by the British Charity Commission. Current whereabouts unknown.
Erik-Dorph
Jensen
Danish. Male. Based in Barcelona, same adress as Jesper Wohlert. Recently associated with Humana Holland, but left shortly after several
publications about Humana in the Dutch press. Has
also been associated with Humana Spain and Humana France (closed down in
1996 after financial irregularities).
Niels
Peter Holst
Danish. Male. Said to be Tvind's 'chief accountant' in 1998. Officially resident in
Britain. Composer of the secret internal memo of Tvind concerning moving
money away gained by clothes collecting in Europe. The publication of
the memo (dated 24-9-1995) on Dutch television and in Eindhovens Dagblad
caused a Dutch Member of Parliament to call for an Europe-wide investigation
into Humana in the year 2002.
Steen
Conradsen
Danish. Male. Was
involved in several Tvind schools - Director Small School at Red House
(1994), member of Council Management Small School at Red House
(1994), Director Red House Management (1998). Also he was a board member
of the Humanitarian Fund (2001).
Conradsen, a well-known and influential TG member, described in the
media how he's seen Tvind for many years: 'In the 70s we were the
communist commune, training guerilla soldiers in the field. In the 80s
were the cult, brainwashing people and in the 90s it is the economy of
the Teachers Group that is being focused on.'
Basically Conradsen believes that society wants to eliminate Tvind. But
it is a fight against wind mills, he insists. 'Many are against us, but
also many are with us. We have a good school with a theory of education
so good that people are still supporting us. We see that when social
workers, municipalities, parents and all the other authorities still
believe, that it is a good idea to send people to a Tvind-institution.'
American, male, born 1958. Probably now resident in Borneo, but in the past has addresses listed at 1559 Rockville Pike, Rockville, 20852 Maryland, USA (1991) and 02 Voorburgwal 266, 1012 GL, Amsterdam, Netherlands (1992). He is another Tvind financial manager and has been associated with the following companies (most likely others too): Secretary and Director, Greenpipe Management Ltd (1991), Secretary and director, All Europe Satellite Television Ltd (1992). Director, Unicorn Trans World Trading (1995). He was a signatory of the Gaia-Movement Trust, Switzerland, in 1998. Most recently (2003) associated with McCorry and Co, Luyang, Malaysia - a timber trading company.
Peter Kjaer
Appears
to be resident in Fiji. Was a teacher at DNS (The Necessary
Teacher Training College) in 1980-81. One correspondent
recalls him being sent to try to persuade her to return to Tvind after
she left DNS in the mid-1980s. "I found him waiting on the stairs
when I got home from work one day.... A fairly charming, pleasant
fellow." Was a signatory of the Gaia Movement Trust in
Switzerland in 1998.
Lilian Ekbom
Also
resident in Fiji, we think. What is she doing there for
Tvind? With Peter Kjaer, was a Teacher at DNS in around
1980-81 and more recently became a signatory of the Gaia Movement Trust,
giving her address as Fiji.
The following are also believed to be influential TG members
Svend
Srensen
Mikael
Norling
Soeren
Soerensen
Ole Toft Anderson In charge of a Tvind-owned banana plantation, la Hacienda Italia, Ecuador.
Sven Petersen - in South Africa
Hans Joergen Lausten - Florida, Holland and Moscow
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