Lars Anders Baer

As a member of the Saami Council, Lars Anders Baer was involved in the pan-Saami movement in the early 1970s and was the chairman of the council when the Saami population in Russia was integrated into the pan-Saami movment during the glasnost period at the end of the 1980s. As a key figure in the Saami Council, he was also involved in setting up the development aid programme which is an Indigenous to Indigenous programme in Latin America, Asia and Africa.

Has been involved in the UN Working Groupon Indigenous Populations from 1983 onwards. Between 1987 and 1989, when ILO revised Convention No. 107 and replaced it by the Indigenous and Tribal Peoples Convention (No. 169) adopted in June 1989, Lars Anders Baer was involved in this work both as NGO-representative and expert in governmental delegation. He is also involved in Indigenous-related matters in the UN system such as WIPO and UNESCO. Lars Anders Baer has also been a research fellow at the Nordic Sámi Institute, Kautokeino, Norway and a visiting researcher at the University of Finnish Lapland in Rovanemi, Finland.