Founder & Co-Founders

Who initiated the World Future Council? Meet our founder and the co-founders of our organisation.

Find out more about our organisation’s history on this page.

Founder

Jakob von Uexkull

Founder

Jakob von Uexkull is the founder of the World Future Council (2007) and the Right Livelihood Award (1980), often referred to as the ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’, as well as co-founder (1984) of The Other Economic Summit.

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Co-Founder

Prof. Herbert Girardet

Co-Founder

Since the 1980s Herbert has been working as a cultural and urban ecologist – as a writer, film maker, and as an international consultant

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Prof. Dr Michael Otto

Co-Founder

Prof. Dr Michael Otto is Chairman of the Supervisory Board of the Otto Group in Hamburg, Germany. […] Chairman of the Council of the Environmental Foundation WWF Deutschland; Founder and Chairman of the Board of Trustees of the Environmental Foundation Michael Otto.

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