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Madagascar: Ecology and Conservation

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Jim Hansen, Academic Director

Jim Hansen received his B.S. in Economics from Montana State University and his M.A. in Geography from the University of Hawaii/Manoa.  In addition, he has pursued further studies in the Department d'Etudes Francaises pour Etrangers at the Universite de Toulouse le Mirail in Toulouse, France, and currently is an M.A. candidate in European Languages and Literature (French) at the University of Hawaii/Manoa.  Mr. Hansen has served as an energy analyst at the East-West Center in Honolulu, where he has done contract work with the United Nations Pacific Energy Development Program, the World Bank, UNESCO, and Pacific Island governments in Fiji, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, and Tonga.  More recently, he has been employed as an English as a Second Language instructor and French instructor at both the University of Hawaii and Punahou Academy.  Mr. Hansen has published in his particular areas of interest: linguistics, cross-cultural communication, and energy economics.  He was Academic Director of the SIT Cameroon program in spring 1994, the SIT Mali program in Fall 2002, and has directed programs in Madagascar for SIT since fall 1994.