Louise Fresco
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| Born |
11 February 1952 Meppel, Netherlands |
| Nationality | Dutch |
| Alma mater | Wageningen University |
| Website | LouiseOFresco.com |
Louise Ottilie Fresco (born 11 February 1952 in Meppel) is a Dutch scientist, director and writer.
Fresco was appointed a University Professor at the University of Amsterdam (UvA) in June 2006. In this position, especially created for her, Professor Fresco specialises in the foundations of sustainable development in an international context. Louise Fresco is a member of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (KNAW) since 2009, a non-resident member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Agriculture and Forestry in Stockholm, a corresponding member of the Real Academia de Ingeniería in Madrid, and a member of the Royal Holland Society of Sciences and Humanities. Fresco further holds a visiting professorship at the Institute of Earth Sciences at Stanford University and at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation in Palo Alto, in the United States. She is also a Honorary Professor at Wageningen University.
Outside academia, Fresco is a member of the Supervisory Board of Rabobank Nederland, one of the largest banks currently operating in the agricultural sector worldwide. She was named a non-executive director at Unilever in 2009, is a Crown-appointed member of the Social and Economic Council of the Netherlands (SER), and a member of the Trilateral Commission and of the Governing Council of the United Nations University. In 2015 she participated in the conference of the Bilderberg Group. She participated in the World Policy Conference in 2009, 2011, 2015 and 2016. In addition, she holds seats on the boards of the Erasmus Prize Foundation and Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, is a member of the Council of Advisors for the World Food Prize and adviser to the OCP Group (Office Chérifien des Phosphates). She also chairs the Compagnie Fonds and its Board of Professors of the Maritime Museum in Amsterdam. In May 2010 she was among the members of the InterAcademy Council ’s international scientific team appointed by the United Nations to investigate the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Last but not least, she is a member of the jury of the 2011 (Dutch) Libris Literature Prize. Since 2011 Fresco is a member of the advisory council of The Hague Institute for Global Justice, member of the Nederlands-Franse Samenwerkingsraad and member of The Dutch Safety Board in the Netherlands. Fresco is the chair of the Research School Accreditation Committee (KNAW) and of the Nationaal Platform Rio+20.
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