At the invitation of Dr. Anders Granlund, Counsellor (Director of Swedish Environmental Secretariat for Asia), AIT President Said Irandoust attended a meeting on 19 September 2007 at the Swedish Embassy, where he met with Mrs. Gunilla Eitrem, Senior Program Officer of the Environment Policy Unit of the Department of Natural Resource and Environment, Sida, who was visiting Thailand on a field trip. During the meeting, President Irandoust briefed her on AIT and its regional collaborative programs with Sida.