Benno Werlen
Founder @The Jena Declaration
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WORK HISTORY
Founder @The Jena Declaration
Jena, DE
The Jena Declaration (TJD) is based on the outcomes of a conference on the \"Cultural and Regional Dimensions of Global Sustainability\"(October 21–22, 2020), organized in partnership with the Canadian and German Commissions for UNESCO, the International Council for Philosophy and the Human Sciences, the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the World Academy of Art & Science, The Club of Rome, the Academia Europaea. The Jena Declaration is now a consortium of partners, which includes UNESCO Chairs, relevant international organisations and academies of sciences, arts organisations and networks, business companies, civil societies movements, and many individuals changemakers too. We support the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs), which is why we are assembling a large number and variety of signatories to The Jena Declaration. As we grow, we work with NGOs, schools, and others to encourage communities and governments to actively change in favor of sustainability.
EDUCATION
Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg
Dr. phil., Geography
Université de Fribourg - Universität Freiburg
lic. phil., Geography, Cultural Anthropology, Sociologie, Economy
University of Zurich
Dr. habil. rer nat., Geography
SKILLS
ABOUT BENNO WERLEN
Benno Werlen, born 10th October 1952 in Münster/VS (Switzerland), holds the UNESCO Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability, the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. He is a fellow of the World Academy of Art & Sciences and the Max Weber Center for Cultural and Social Studies, a member of the Academia Europaea, chair of the IGU Commission on Global Understanding (since 2016), is the initiator and chair of The Jena Declaration on the Cultural and Regional Dimension of Global Sustainability’ endorsed by many of the leading organizations in the field, founder and executive director of the International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) including more than 30 Regional Actions Centers, approved by the UNESCO General Conference, proclaimed by the three major science councils of the Human, Social and Natural sciences. In 2016 Werlen was awarded the Lauréat d’honneur of the International Geographical Union, the highest scientific honorary prize awarded by the IGU, for his lifelong contributions to geographical science, as an internationally recognized scholar, and for opening up new paths of scientific cooperation at the highest level. Until 2018 he was the Chair for Social Geography at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena. Werlen holds degrees from the Faculties of the Humanities, and Natural Sciences. He worked at the Universities of Kiel, Fribourg, Zurich, Salzburg, Geneva, Nijmegen, and the ETH Zurich. He has been a visiting scholar at the University of Cambridge (King’s College & Sidney Sussex College), the London School of Economics, and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA). As a ‘key thinker on space and place’ (Sage 2011), he published widely on society-space relations under globalized conditions. He served as a panel member for the European Research Council for ‘Environment and Society’ for Advanced Grants (2008-15), the French National Research Agency (ANR) in the field of Social and Human Sciences (2008-12), as Chair of the IGU Commission ‘Cultural Approach in Geography’ (2004-16). He has published 16 books and more than 200 papers in scientific journals and books and has given over 200 keynote presentations at universities across five continents in the fields of geography, sociology, economics, political sciences, philosophy, history, cultural anthropology, and linguistics, and organized more than 70 scientific conferences and conference sessions on all continents.
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