{"id":58986,"date":"2019-11-16T09:55:17","date_gmt":"2019-11-16T09:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/34.140.144.153\/2019\/11\/16\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/"},"modified":"2019-11-16T09:55:17","modified_gmt":"2019-11-16T09:55:17","slug":"swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Swedish Ambassador Michael Gr\u00e4ns: Women need to be much more involved in economic development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"dailymotion-responsive-container\" style=\"position: relative; padding-bottom: 56.25%; height: 0; overflow: hidden; max-width: 100%;\"><div class=\"dailymotion-player\"><script src=\"https:\/\/geo.dailymotion.com\/player\/x1ee8e.js\" data-video=\"kQkIwVjEP1SpSIvn4Ts\"><\/script><\/div><br><br><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Swedish institute is hosting the \u2018leading through change\u2019 a platform for sharing and developing the insights necessary for transformative leadership. The platform is exclusive to female experts and managers. Carl Michael Gr\u00e4ns, Sweden\u2019s Ambassador to Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon spoke to CNBC Africa\u2019s Christy Cole on what informed the Swedish government\u2019s decision to support this programme.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":58987,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"video","meta":{"_gam_disable_ads":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1077,1076],"tags":[924],"class_list":["post-58986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-video","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-news","tag-swedish","post_format-post-format-video"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Swedish Ambassador Michael Gr\u00e4ns: Women need to be much more involved in economic development - GuardianTV<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Swedish Ambassador Michael Gr\u00e4ns: Women need to be much more involved in economic development - GuardianTV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The Swedish institute is hosting the \u2018leading through change\u2019 a platform for sharing and developing the insights necessary for transformative leadership. The platform is exclusive to female experts and managers. Carl Michael Gr\u00e4ns, Sweden\u2019s Ambassador to Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon spoke to CNBC Africa\u2019s Christy Cole on what informed the Swedish government\u2019s decision to support this programme.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"GuardianTV\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2019-11-16T09:55:17+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/tv.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/Swedish-Ambassador-Michael-Grans-Women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1024\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"576\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Abiodun Ogundairo\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Abiodun Ogundairo\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Abiodun Ogundairo\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1\"},\"headline\":\"Swedish Ambassador Michael Gr\u00e4ns: Women need to be much more involved in economic development\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-16T09:55:17+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\\\/\"},\"wordCount\":22,\"commentCount\":0,\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#organization\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/Swedish-Ambassador-Michael-Grans-Women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development.jpg\",\"keywords\":[\"Swedish\"],\"articleSection\":[\"Business\",\"News\"],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\\\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\\\/\",\"name\":\"Swedish Ambassador Michael Gr\u00e4ns: Women need to be much more involved in economic development - GuardianTV\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\\\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/Swedish-Ambassador-Michael-Grans-Women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2019-11-16T09:55:17+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\\\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\\\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\\\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/Swedish-Ambassador-Michael-Grans-Women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2024\\\/06\\\/Swedish-Ambassador-Michael-Grans-Women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development.jpg\",\"width\":1024,\"height\":576},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\\\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Swedish Ambassador Michael Gr\u00e4ns: Women need to be much more involved in economic development\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/\",\"name\":\"GuardianTV\",\"description\":\"\",\"publisher\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#organization\"},\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Organization\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#organization\",\"name\":\"GuardianTV\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/\",\"logo\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\\\/\\\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\\\/2026\\\/09\\\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png\",\"width\":600,\"height\":96,\"caption\":\"GuardianTV\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/logo\\\/image\\\/\"}},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1\",\"name\":\"Abiodun Ogundairo\",\"url\":\"https:\\\/\\\/guardian.ng\\\/tv\\\/author\\\/abiodun\\\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Swedish Ambassador Michael Gr\u00e4ns: Women need to be much more involved in economic development - GuardianTV","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Swedish Ambassador Michael Gr\u00e4ns: Women need to be much more involved in economic development - GuardianTV","og_description":"The Swedish institute is hosting the \u2018leading through change\u2019 a platform for sharing and developing the insights necessary for transformative leadership. The platform is exclusive to female experts and managers. Carl Michael Gr\u00e4ns, Sweden\u2019s Ambassador to Nigeria, Ghana and Cameroon spoke to CNBC Africa\u2019s Christy Cole on what informed the Swedish government\u2019s decision to support this programme.","og_url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/","og_site_name":"GuardianTV","article_published_time":"2019-11-16T09:55:17+00:00","og_image":[{"width":1024,"height":576,"url":"https:\/\/s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com\/tv.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/Swedish-Ambassador-Michael-Grans-Women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development.jpg","type":"image\/jpeg"}],"author":"Abiodun Ogundairo","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Abiodun Ogundairo"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/"},"author":{"name":"Abiodun Ogundairo","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/person\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1"},"headline":"Swedish Ambassador Michael Gr\u00e4ns: Women need to be much more involved in economic development","datePublished":"2019-11-16T09:55:17+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/"},"wordCount":22,"commentCount":0,"publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#organization"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/Swedish-Ambassador-Michael-Grans-Women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development.jpg","keywords":["Swedish"],"articleSection":["Business","News"],"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/","name":"Swedish Ambassador Michael Gr\u00e4ns: Women need to be much more involved in economic development - GuardianTV","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/Swedish-Ambassador-Michael-Grans-Women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development.jpg","datePublished":"2019-11-16T09:55:17+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/#primaryimage","url":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/Swedish-Ambassador-Michael-Grans-Women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development.jpg","contentUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2024\/06\/Swedish-Ambassador-Michael-Grans-Women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development.jpg","width":1024,"height":576},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/swedish-ambassador-michael-grans-women-need-to-be-much-more-involved-in-economic-development\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Swedish Ambassador Michael Gr\u00e4ns: Women need to be much more involved in economic development"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#website","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/","name":"GuardianTV","description":"","publisher":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#organization"},"potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Organization","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#organization","name":"GuardianTV","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/09\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png","contentUrl":"https:\/\/gtvcdn.guardian.ng\/2026\/09\/5SUudJ8m-oZUN2RNk-Logo-white.png","width":600,"height":96,"caption":"GuardianTV"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/logo\/image\/"}},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/#\/schema\/person\/a7ea396ab9bae73d4845496dbad885f1","name":"Abiodun Ogundairo","url":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/author\/abiodun\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58986","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58986"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58986\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/58987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58986"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58986"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/guardian.ng\/tv\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58986"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}