Mechtild Rössler

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Mechtild Rössler (born June 11, 1959 ) is a German geographer . She has been Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Center in Paris since 2015, succeeding Kishore Rao .

Life

Rössler was born in 1959. She studied cultural geography at the Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg and received her doctorate in 1988 from the University of Hamburg on the subject of "Science and Living Space", geographical research on the East under National Socialism: a contribution to the history of the discipline of geography. In 1989 she began her UNESCO career at the Research Center of the Cité des Sciences et de L'Industrie in Paris. This was followed by a research stay at the University of California, Berkeley at the Faculty of Geography. After working on various UNESCO programs, she finally became Director of the World Heritage Center in 2015. She is the author of over 100 specialist articles and 13 books.

Publications

  • "Science and living space", geographical research on the East under National Socialism: a contribution to the history of the discipline of geography (dissertation, Hamburg 1988)
  • Many voices, one vision: the early history of the World Heritage Convention (together with Christina Cameron , 2013), ISBN 9781138248083

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e f https://whc.unesco.org/en/whoswho/1359
  2. ↑ https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/neue-chefin-am-unesco-welterbezentrum-mechtild-roessler-wird-direktorin/12354404.html
  3. ↑ https://www.unesco.de/kultur-und-natur/welterbe/welterbe-weltweit/mechtild-roessler-neue-direktorin-des-unesco
personal data
SURNAME Rössler, Mechtild
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German geographer
DATE OF BIRTH June 11, 1959