He was the 2010-11 Vice President, Educational Activities for the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), which has recently signed an MOU with UNESCO to support workforce development and capacity building in Africa.

UNESCO: Who's who

Lastly, this UNESCO-ASME collaboration aims to expand the capacity and efficacy of the engineering workforce as well as create new opportunities in multi-disciplinary areas.

UNESCO: Indigenous Peoples

Fears for the future of the Trostre tinplate plant first surfaced last year, when Corus announced it was trimming the workforce by nearly 100, and reducing manufacturing capacity.

BBC: Fears for 290 tinplate plant jobs

The UNITWIN G-PhEd Network will act as a new mechanism for the work of the FIP Pharmacy Education Taskforce, which has been dedicated to developing tools and resources to help tackle challenges of academic capacity, quality assurance of educational systems and workforce competency in both high-resource and low-resource pharmacy education institutions.

UNESCO: UK National Commission for UNESCO :: New UNESCO University Twinning Network for Pharmacists Launched

As a result of those challenges, Whirlpool is moving to reduce costs and capacity, announcing it will cut more than 5, 000 jobs (approximately 10% of its workforce in North America and Italy), in part by closing a refrigerator manufacturing facility in Arkansas by the middle of 2012.

FORBES: Whirlpool: 5,000 Jobs Going Down The Drain