Manfred A. Max-Neef Alternative Nobel Prize Winner Former Presidential Candidate Rector of Universidad Austral de Chile "From Knowledge to Understanding"
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Curriculum Vitae:

Presently

• Chilean-German economist and musician.
• Founder and Executive Director of the Development Alternatives Centre, CEPAUR, in Chile.
• Rector (Vice Chancellor) until August 2002, of the Southern University of Chile.
• Professor of Ecological Economics, Southern University of Chile.
• Honorary Member of the Club of Rome.
• Member of the New York Academy of Sciences.
• Active member of the European Academy of Sciences and Arts.
• Member of the group of International Patrons of the Refugee Studies Programme of the University of Oxford, England.
• Member of the Scientific Committee of the “Leopold Kohr Akademie”, Salzburg, Austria.
• Member of the Editorial Council of the International Journal of Ecological Economics.

Formerly

• Member of the Scientific Advisory Council of the Governments of Canada and Sweden for Sustainable Development.
• Professor of Economics, University of Chile.
• Lecturer in Development Economics, University of California, Berkeley, U.S.A.
• Professor of Economics and International Relations, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
• Visiting Professor at several U.S. and Latin American Universities.
• General Economist of FAO, Chief of Mission of the International Labour Organization, and Consultant for UNICEF and UNDP.
• Independent Presidential Candidate in  the Chilean 1993 general elections.

Awards

• Creator of the principles of “Barefoot Economics” and of the Theory of Human Scale Development, for which he was awarded, in the Swedish Parliament, the (1983 Right Livelihood Award – the Alternative Nobel Prize).
• In 1987 he was awarded, by a group of democratic Institutions fighting the dictatorship, the National Prize for the Promotion and Defense of Human Rights.
• Gold Medal for Academic Merits, University of  Manizales, Colombia, 1997.
• University Award of Highest Honour, Soka University, Japan, 1997.
• Grand Officer of the Order of the Sun of Carabobo, Government of the State of Carabobo, Venezuela.
• Doctor of Economics honoris causa, University of Jordan, Jordan, and University of Antioquia, Colombia.

Publications

Author of eight books and over 100 essays and papers. His main works have been translated into several languages.

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