Oscar Victor Palmquist Arias of

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, Paraná,

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(born December 6, 196

was one of 12 elected volunteer members of the

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, the main executive body of the

World Organization of the Scout Movement The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM ) is the largest international Scouting organization. WOSM has 173 members. These members are recognized national Scout organizations, which collectively have around 43 million participants. WOS ...

, Vice Chairman of the World Scout Conference "Curitiba-Brazil 2011" Organizing Committee and member of the International Relations Committee. He was elected at the 38th

World Scout Conference The World Organization of the Scout Movement (WOSM ) is the largest international Scouting organization. WOSM has 173 members. These members are recognized national Scout organizations, which collectively have around 43 million participants. WOSM ...

South Korea South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia, constituting the southern part of the Korea, Korean Peninsula and sharing a Korean Demilitarized Zone, land border with North Korea. Its western border is formed ...

for a six-year term. Palmquist has acquired a wide experience covering 101 countries and five continents. In his job, Palmquist visits an average of 11 countries per year on several continents. As Member of the World Scout Committee and was the chairman of the MTF Membership review task force which allowed the World Scout Committee to recommend Palestine, Macao, Aruba and Curacao as WOSM members, and as Chairman of the Global Support Priority Area he created the Global Support concept and the GSAT Global Support Assessment Tool. Palmquist joined Scouting in 1975 at the age of 11, and at 16 earned the '' Escoteiro da Pátria'', comparable to the Eagle Scout rank in the

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. He was twice President of the Brazilian Youth Forum, and was elected

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of the Interamerican Youth Forum in

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in 1980. In 1985, he received his

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and became a Wood Badge training director in 1987. In 1992, he was the youngest national board member ever elected, and in 1993 became Director for International Relations. From 1995 to 1998, Palmquist served as

of the

União dos Escoteiros do Brasil The União dos Escoteiros do Brasil (UEB, ''Union of Brazilian Scouts'') is the national Scouting organization of Brazil. Scouting in Brazil was founded in 1910 and was among the charter members of the World Organization of the Scout Movement in 1 ...

. In 2000 he was elected a member of the Interamerican Scout Foundation Board of Trustees. He served as the International Commissioner for the Brazilian Scout Association from 1993 to 2007, and first Vice-Chairman of the Interamerican Scout Committee from 2004 to 2007. Palmquist worked on several projects such as the creation of the

Comunidade do Escutismo Lusófono The Comunidade do Escutismo Lusófono (CEL, ''Community of Lusophone Scouting'') is the international community of Scouting organizations in the Lusophone countries. Its members are: * Angola: Associação de Escuteiros de Angola * Brazil: Uniã ...

. Palmquist was the Brazilian contingent leader to five World Scout Jamborees, and the contingent leader at three Pan-American Jamborees and the Centro-American Camporee. He has been honored with more than 20 awards and medals from Brazil, Malaysia, South Korea, Asia Pacific,

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and

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, including the gold

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in 1999, the

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from Mexico in 2007, and the '' Tapir de Prata'' medal (the highest Scouting award of Brazil) in 2008. He was awarded the Mayor of the City of

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Gold Medal for Community Services in 2006 and The Lusophonic Community Medal. After his term ended as World Scout Committee Member he became the 1st Vice President of UEB (Scouts Brazil) National Executive Board from 2015 to 2016. In 1987 Palmquist graduated in

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at Pontifícia Universidade Católica in

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, Brazil and in 2007 he finished his

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California, with emphasis in Global Business at

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. He also participated in seminars at IMD Business School from Lausanne Switzerland. In 1993 Palmquist started work with Georg Fischer, located in

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, was Vice President for all Latin American Operations, President of Georg Fischer Mexico, and business development for Shipbuilding. He worked with plastic

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systems for

water treatment Water treatment is any process that improves the Water quality, quality of water to make it appropriate for a specific end-use. The end use may be drinking water, drinking, industrial water supply, irrigation, river flow maintenance, water recrea ...

gas distribution The United Kingdom's National Transmission System (NTS) is the network of gas pipelines that supply gas to about forty power stations and large industrial users from natural gas terminals situated on the coast, and to gas distribution companies th ...

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, automotive, and

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. In 2008 Oscar Palmquist became the Senior Vice-President for the Americas of Simona AG Plastics from Germany and in 2012 the General Manager for Plasson in Latin America.

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* https://web.archive.org/web/20090105195622/http://www.scoutinginlondon.org.uk/Pages/News/Articles/2008/worldscoutconference.html *http://www.f64.com.br/oscar_palmquist/scouting.html * http://www.f64.com.br/oscar_palmquist/work.html {{DEFAULTSORT:Palmquist, Oscar World Scout Committee members Living people Scouting and Guiding in Brazil 1963 births

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