About Speaker

Falk Parra-Witte is an ecological anthropologist who obtained his PhD from the University of Cambridge. He combines research with public outreach and community engagement to develop culture-driven sustainability based on holism and realism that reconsiders prevailing human relations to nature. Falk builds bridges of dialogue, knowledge exchange and understanding between different sectors like academia, government and civil society, in particular between the ecology of indigenous people and the natural and social sciences. His focus has been the Kogi People of Colombia, with whom he has a longstanding relationship. Falk has been applying this approach through transdisciplinary projects, roles and networks on socio-environmental regeneration that foment related policy and education. Examples are the intercultural projects Múnekaň Masha and Nature in Other Words, the UNESCO-BRIDGES Sustainability Science Coalition, and the UNESCO-Chair on Global Understanding for Sustainability (University of Jena in Germany).