Dr. Sabin Bieri (Switzerland) triggered her interest for development issues in Bolivia, where she herded lamas and sheep with local women and researched the importance of herding within the changing smallholder strategies. Back in Switzerland, she analysed social movements which, through squatting and camping
Dr. Patrick Bottazzi (Switzerland) is a socio-anthropologist with a PhD in development studies from the Graduate Institute of International and Development studies (IHEID) in Geneva. His PhD research focused on indigenous people and land titling in the Bolivian Amazon, exploring the relation between multilevel
Peter Messerli (Switzerland) is the director of the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE) of the University of Bern. As a geographer specialized in inter- and transdisciplinarity, his research interests lie in the sustainable development of socio-ecological systems in Africa and Asia. He thereby focuses
Sarah-Lan Mathez-Stiefel (Switzerland) is a geographer and ethnobiologist with extensive working experience in Latin America and Eastern and Southern Africa. She holds a PhD in Human Geography from the University of Bern, Switzerland and is currently carrying out a post-doctoral study on local knowledge, gende
Dr. Flurina Schneider is a human geographer and senior research scientist at the Centre for Development and Environment (CDE), University of Bern. She has conducted extensive research for sustainable and just development, particularly on conditions and processes that hinder or foster social learning and transd
Andreas Obrecht is senior policy advisor for biodiversity at the international affairs division of the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN). His main tasks are to serve as the national focal point for the Convention on Biological Diversity and to accompany various biodiversity-related international
