Willem "Wim" Alfred Udenhout (born 29 September 1937 in

Coronie District Coronie is a district of Suriname, situated on the coast. Coronie's capital city is Totness. The district border the Atlantic Ocean to the north, the Surinamese district of Saramacca to the east, the Surinamese district of Sipaliwini to the sou ...

) was the

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-installed Prime Minister of Suriname from February 1984 to July 1986. He had previously been a teacher and, for a time, a Black Power activist. As an academic he had a PhD in English literature from

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. He later served as an ambassador to the

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. He did not favor investigating the military's murder of civilians or of Maroon people. He is most recently the Chairman of the Suriname Conservation Foundation.UNDP Guyana
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, - 1937 births Living people Prime Ministers of Suriname Finance ministers of Suriname Leiden University alumni Ambassadors of Suriname to the United States People from Coronie District {{Suriname-politician-stub