Aqqaluk Lynge
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Aqqaluk Lynge (born 1947) was the President of the Inuit Circumpolar Council (formerly the Inuit Circumpolar Conference) from 1995 to 2002.[1] He is a former member of the Inatsisartut and one of the founders of the Greenlandic political party Inuit Ataqatigiit. An indigenous Kalaallit, in 2004 Lynge became a member of the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues,[2] which is an advisory body to the U.N.'s Economic and Social Council. He was a visiting fellow at the Dartmouth College Institute of Arctic Studies in 2008 and received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from the college in 2012.[3] Lynge has also become known as an author of poetry and essays.[4]
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- ^ http://www.un.org/esa/socdev/unpfii/documents/members/member-lynge.pdf
- ^ http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/aqqaluk_lynge_appointed_to_uns_indigenous_forum/
- ^ http://www.economistinsights.com/speaker/2666[permanent dead link]
- ^ http://now.dartmouth.edu/2012/06/dartmouth-commencement-2012-biography-aqqaluk-lynge
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