Name: Wen Tiejun Title: Professor Position: Executive Dean & Director Organization: Renmin University of China(Beijing), Southwest University of China(Chongqing), Fujian Agriculture & Forestry University(Fuzhou)
He is one of the founding members of the Global University for Sustainability.
Brief profile:
11 year pre-u experience of working, in local communities, as a peasant, truck driver, servant, etc.
21 year experience of being policy researcher in central governments after doctoral graduation
11 year teaching at universities
Dean and Director of the schools
Old volunteer and facilitator of rural reconstruction movement in China.
“Grassroot democracy must be based on de-colonized knowledge, with historical culture of the indigenous and practical experience of the local. This should be created by mass participatory movements for self empowerment…”.