Introduction
TITLES: Visiting Professor & Head of the "Transition from Innovation to Sustainability" programs
UNIVERSITY: CCRS, School of Management Fribourg, University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland (HES-SO).
AFFILIATION: Graduate Programs in Sustainability, Bard College (New York).
EXPERTISE: Environmental humanities, climate change research, China and Central Asia, innovation and sustainability, research methodology.
EDUCATION: University of Chicago PhD, and University of California at Berkeley Postdoc.
Expert
A geographer by training, Prof. Philippe C. Forêt has contributed to the development of sustainability studies through research and curriculum innovations. His research on the mobility of data and expertise across Eurasia has tackled fundamental issues, combined cutting-edge approaches, and associated academic and non-academic partners. Philippe's agenda in the environmental humanities has received awards from twelve countries. He has been since 2017 a member of the Society of Fellows of the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich.
Fields of expertise: Environmental policy / climate change, Science policy, technology and innovation policy, Social change / social transformations