Jens Sejer Andersen
b. 1960, married, three children
1986: Graduated from the DanishSchool of Journalism, Aarhus.
1986: Radio reporter at regional branch of Danish Broadcasting System/DR Næstved.
1987-1990: Freelance journalist at "Freelance 45" in Aarhus. Professional trips to Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, Mexico and Cuba. Writing about Latin America for the daily "Information" and a broad range of magazines and newspapers in Scandinavia. Radio reporting for Danish Broadcasting Corporation. PR work for Gerlev Idrætshjskole, a sports college in the "folkehøjskole" tradition.
Various articles on people's sports culture home and abroad.
1990-92: Editor-in-Chief of Danish Gymnastics and Youth Associations (DDGU) until its merging with Danish Shooting, Gymnastics and Sports Associations.
1992-2003: Editor-in-Chief of Danish Gymnastics and Sports Associations (DGI), one of Denmark's largest organisations counting 5,000 local clubs with 1.4 million individual members.
Responsible for the weekly "Ungdom & Idraet" (= Youth & Sports) on leadership, sports politics and culture, 36 annual editions/17.000 copies.
1993-2003: Launching "Instruktørmagasinet Krumspring" on lively and varied daily sports practice, 9 annual editions, 43.000 copies.
2004: Director of Play the Game, Aarhus
Books and publications:
"Det ny Uruguay - de hjemvendte flygtninge og det ny demokrati" (The new Uruguay - repatriation and the new democracy"), MS/Hovedland 1987.
"Job i Idræt" (Job in Sports), Forlaget Studie & Erhverv 1989.
"Society's Watchdog - or Showbiz' Pet?", anthology of manuscripts from international press seminar, co-editor with Jørn Møller, DGI 1998.
Contributor to The National Danish Encyclopedia with several articles.
Chapter “Berntines Vækkeur” in “Fred er ei det beste”, homage volume to prof. Hans B. Skaset, Oslo 2005
Chapter ”Play the Game” in ”Korruption im Sport” anthology on sports corruption, Forum Verlag Leipzig 2006
Consultant on “Straffe!”, Danish edition of Andrew Jennings’ “Foul!”, Forlaget Ajour 2006-09-19
Lecturing and education activities:
1990-1995: Various courses for Danish sports journalists
1997: Promoting and organising "Sport, Media and Civil Society" - the first international press arrangement ever on sport as a popular cultural movement and on the journalist's professional dilemmas created by globalisation, hosting109 media professionals and sports researchers from 34 countries
1997-: Co-ordinator of Sports Intelligence Unit, an international network of media professionals and sports researchers
1987-2000: Lecturing at various universities, folkehøjskoler, local associations, seminars etc.
1999: December: Lecturer and co-organiser at a millenium seminar in Mauritius, organised by the Mauritian Sports Journalists Association
2000: Lecturer at the seminar "Stop Doping" in Cagliari, Sardinia, hosted by the Italian Olympic Committee (CONI), the Italian Ministry of Education and the Italian Soccer Federation's Youth Sector.
2000: Organiser of the world media conference "Play the game" in DGI-byen, Copenhagen, with 180 representatives from 52 countries
2001: March: Lecturer at anti-doping seminar for 400 Italian school teachers in Marina di Massa, organised by the Italian Ministry of Education.
2002 and 2005:Organiser of the world media conference "Play the game" in DGI-byen, Copenhagen
2004 - Regular lecturer on sport and media at the DanishSchool of Journalism, the University of Aarhus and other institutions
2004 May: Keynote speaker at the IFJ Sports and Global Media Conference in Athens, Greece
2004 August: Speaker at ICSSPE Pre-Olympic Congress in Thessaloniki, Greece
2005 February: Speaker at International Forum for Sport and Development in Bad Boll, Germany
2005 Keynote speaker at Nordic Sports Summit in Oslo, Norway
2005 Speaker and panellist at the United Nations 2nd Magglingen Conference on Sport for Development and Peace, Switzerland
Other:
Lyrics and songs for various occasions, such as galla nights during DGI festivals (Landsstævner) in 1994 and 1998, galla night at the DGI-festival celebration Copenhagen as Cultural Capital of Europe 1996, inauguration of The Movement House in Gerlev 1988, inauguration of the sports centre DGI-byen 1997, inauguration of the Water Culture House in DGI-byen 1999, celebration of the 75th anniversary of the reunion of Denmark and Southern Jutland 1995 etc.
Awards:
Gerlevprisen 2003 for efforts to promote freedom of expression in sports.
Foreign languages:
English, Spanish, French and some German. Understands Norwegian and Swedish.
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