Barbro Osher (born May 21, 1940 in Stockholm) is the Swedish Consul General in San Francisco and a well-known philanthropist, chairman of the Bernard Osher Foundation and of the Barbro Osher Pro Suecia Foundation. Together with her husband Bernard Osher she gave the third largest contribution to charity in 2006, according to the online magazine Slate. Barbro Osher is also the owner and publisher of Vestkusten, a Swedish-American newspaper. May 21 is the 141st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (142nd in leap years). ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... Nickname: Location of Stockholm in northern Europe Coordinates: Country Sweden Municipality Stockholm Municipality County Stockholm Province Södermanland and Uppland Charter 13th Century Population (April 2007)  - City 782,885  - Density 4,160/km² (10,774. ... For the uses of Consul as Chief Magistrate of a (city) state, see Consul. ... Nickname: Location of the City and County of San Francisco, California Coordinates: Country United States of America State California City-County San Francisco Government  - Mayor Gavin Newsom Area  - City  47 sq mi (122 km²)  - Land  46. ... Philanthropy is the act of donating money, goods, time, or effort to support a charitable cause, usually over an extended period of time and in regard to a defined objective. ... Slate is an online news and culture magazine created in 1996 by former New Republic editor Michael Kinsley and owned by Microsoft (as part of MSN). ... Children from Lapland at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, N.Y. and N.J., USA, photographed c. ...

Barbro Osher graduated from Stockholm University with a degree in languages and political science. After working in publishing, and as a copywriter in Sweden she moved to the United States in the 1980s. From 1995 to 1998 she served as the Consul General of Sweden in Los Angeles. Stockholm University (Stockholms universitet) is a state university in Stockholm, Sweden. ... This article is concerned with the production of books, magazines, and other literary material (whether in printed or electronic formats). ... Copywriting is the process of writing the words that promote a person, business, opinion, or idea. ... Nickname: Location within Los Angeles County in the state of California Coordinates: State California County Los Angeles County Incorporated April 4, 1850 Government  - Type Mayor-Council  - Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (D)  - City Attorney Rocky Delgadillo  - Governing body City Council Area  - City  498. ...

Together with her husband since 1980, Bernard Osher, she donated 10 million shares of Golden West Financial stock, worth 723.2 million US dollars, to the Bernard Osher Foundation. The money will be used for college scholarships, performing-arts programs, higher-education projects, and the support of three medical-education centers, established by earlier donations. The medical-education centers all aim at integrating conventional and alternative approaches to medicine. They are located at the University of California at San Francisco School of Medicine, at Harvard Medical School, and at Karolinska Institutet in Stockholm. 1980 (MCMLXXX) was a leap year starting on Tuesday. ... Please wikify (format) this article as suggested in the Guide to layout and the Manual of Style. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... ISO 4217 Code USD User(s) the United States, the British Indian Ocean Territory,[1] the British Virgin Islands, Cambodia, East Timor, Ecuador, El Salvador, the Marshall Islands, Micronesia, Palau, Panama, Turks and Caicos Islands, and the insular areas of the United States Inflation 2. ... Scholarship is the pursuit of academic research, whether in the arts and humanities or sciences, and in all such fields means deep mastery of a subject, often through study at institutions of higher education. ... The University of Cambridge is an institute of higher learning. ... Alternative medicine describes practices used in place of conventional medical treatments. ... The University of California (UC) is a public university system in the state of California. ... Harvard Medical School (HMS) is one of the graduate schools of Harvard University. ... The Karolinska Institutet (often translated from Swedish into English as the Karolinska Institute, and in older texts often as the Royal Caroline Institute) is a medical university in Stockholm, founded in 1810. ...

In 2006, Barbro Osher was awarded a honorary doctorate at the Faculty of Fine and Applied Arts at Göteborg University. An honorary degree (Latin: honoris causa ad gradum, not to be confused with an honors degree) is an academic degree awarded to an individual as a decoration, rather than as the result of matriculating and studying for several years. ... Gothenburg University, or Göteborgs universitet, is a university in Gothenburg, Sweden. ...

Sources

• The Bernard Osher Foundation: Biographies
• The 2006 Slate 60: Donations
• "Frikostig generalkonsul vill inspirera andra" (Swedish) - interview in Dagens Nyheter, August 14, 2005
• Hedersdoktorer vid Konstnärliga fakulteten 2006 (Swedish) - Gothenburg University press release