About Speaker

Paul Schafer was trained as an economist and taught economics for several years before entering the cultural field sixty years ago where he has been an advisor, educator, and administrator, written numerous articles and books on the role of culture in the past, present, and future such as The Age of Culture, The World as Culture: Cultivation of the Soul to the Cosmic Whole, and The Great Cultural Awakening, Key to an Equitable, Sustainable, and Harmonious Age, as well as conducted several missions for UNESCO and projects for numerous arts and cultural organisations in Canada and elsewhere in the world. He is also the founder and director of the World Culture Project.