SSFS 3 Participant Profile – François Houtart


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Franocis Houtart / 弗弘索.鄔達

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François Houtart is La Habana Emeritus Professor at the Catholic University of Louvain, and professor at the National Institute of Higher Studies of Ecuador. He served as a member of the Commission of United Nations Experts on the Global Financial Crisis, chaired by Joseph Stiglitz and the Paris Group convened by the UN Presidency of the G20 in 2011. He is founder of the Tricontinental Centre in Belgium, World Forum for Alternatives, and Global University for Sustainability. He is also one of the founders of the World Social Forum.  He has authored over 50 books. In 2009, he was awarded the prestigious UNESCO-Madanjeet Singh Prize for the Promotion of Tolerance and Non-Violence, in recognition of his life-long commitment to world peace, intercultural dialogue, human rights and the promotion of tolerance, and in recognition of his outstanding efforts to advance the cause of social justice in the world.

 

弗朗索瓦•浩達(François Houtart)是法語天主教魯汶大學哈瓦那名譽教授、厄瓜多爾國立高等研究院教授,曾任2011年二十國集團聯合國全球金融危機專家委員會成員,該委員會由約瑟夫·斯蒂格利茨(Joseph Stiglitz)主持。他創辦了三大洲中心、另類實踐世界論壇、和全球大學,也是世界社會論壇創辦人之一。浩達教授寫了超過50本書,為世界和平、跨文化交流、人權貢獻一生,宣揚包容的概念,致力追求世界社會公義。2009年,獲頒聯合國教科文馬登吉特•辛格促進容忍和非暴力獎,其貢獻得以表揚。