Ignacy SachsIgnacy Sachs (17 December 1927 – 2 August 2023) was a Polish-born French economist. He was considered to be an ecosocioeconomist for his ideas about development as a combination of economic growth, equalitarian increase in social well-being and environmental preservation. Ignacy Sachs was born on 17 December 1927. Sachs taught at Paris XII University. He was an invited researcher in the Institut of Advanced Studies in University of São Paulo, and lived in Brazil between 1941 and 1953 as a war refugee.
Sofiane BouhdibaSofiane Bouhdiba is a Tunisian demographer, born on 12 April 1968. He is Professor of Demography in the department of Sociology in the University of Tunis. He has taught in many universities in Europe, Africa and the United States, and has participated in a great number of international conferences, with a focus on mortality and morbidity. As an international consultant to the United Nations, he had the opportunity to observe closely the history of the fight against major diseases in the world.
Alain GreshAlain Gresh (born 1948 in Cairo, Egypt) is a French journalist and former editor of Le Monde Diplomatique. He wrote articles mainly on the Islamic world and the Arab world. Alongside his career, he is a Palestinian nationalist activist. He is often qualified by journalists as an "islamo-leftist". A journalistic investigation of Le Figaro classifies him among the "agents of influence of Islam" in France. Alain Gresh was raised in Cairo, Egypt. He moved to Paris in his teens to study Mathematics and Arabic.
Philippe SaunierPhilippe Saunier (born 1972) is a French art historian who is chief curator at the Bureau de l'inventaire des collections et de la circulation des biens culturels at ministry of culture. He was formerly with the Musée d'Orsay and the Musée Picasso in Paris. He is the author with Thea Burns of L'art du pastel (2014) which was translated into English and published by Abbeville Press in 2015 as The art of the pastel. From 2004 to 2006, Saunier was a curator at the Musée de l'Orangerie in Paris.
Voima (newspaper)Voima is a Finnish free publication, focusing on social issues and culture. The paper is published ten times annually. Voima is a member of Council for Mass Media in Finland. It is an independent publication. Voima was established 1999. The paper is delivered e.g. in libraries, universities, public transportation facilities, theaters, and museums. Publication titles include issues of human rights, environment, economics, and society. It also publishes reviews of literature, movies, theater and music.
Cultural heritage protection in SwitzerlandThe Swiss Agency for the Protection of Cultural Property defines measures to protect cultural property against damage, destruction, theft and loss. For this purpose, a legal basis has been established at the national level and international agreements have been made that oblige Switzerland to respect and support the protection of cultural property not only on its own territory but also on the sovereign territory of other state parties.
Jean-Michel SalanskisJean-Michel Emmanuel Salanskis (born 5 April 1951 in Paris) is a French philosopher and mathematician, professor of science and philosophy at the University of Paris X Nanterre. Originally gaining a Diplôme d'études approfondies in pure mathematics he went on to study philosophy with Luis Puig and Jean-Francois Lyotard from 1974 to 1983. In1986 he completed a doctoral dissertation on Le continu et le discret (the continuous and the discrete).
Serge LatoucheSerge Latouche (ləˈtuːʃ; latuʃ; born 12 January 1940) is a French emeritus professor of economics at the University of Paris-Sud. He holds a degree in political sciences, philosophy and economy. Latouche is a specialist in North-South economic and cultural relations, and in the epistemology of the social sciences. He has developed a critical theory towards economic orthodoxy. He denounces economism, utilitarianism in social sciences, consumer society and the notion of sustainable development.
Thomas WüppesahlThomas Wüppesahl (born 9 July 1955 in Hamburg) is a German politician. He is a former member of the Bundestag. He was a member of Alliance '90/The Greens until 1987. His political skills are civil and political rights, domestic policy and the anti-nuclear movement. Wüppesahl was a founder of a pressure group against Krümmel Nuclear Power Plant in Geesthacht 1975. In 1987 he became a member of the Bundestag in the Green Party faction. After leaving the party, he continued his mandate as an independent member of the parliament.
United World College in MostarThe United World College in Mostar (UWC Mostar) (Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian Latin: Koledž Ujedinjenog svijeta u Mostaru) is a part of the United World College, founded by Elisabeth Rehn (UN Special Rapporteur on the Secretary General for the United Nations Mission in Bosnia-Herzegovina 1995-1999) and Lamija Tanović (Chair, Humanity in Action Bosnia and Herzegovina) in 2006 and officially opened by Queen Noor of Jordan.
