The people
OURWORLDHERITAGE is an open, strategic initiative of concerned citizens and organizations from across the globe who believe in the need to strengthen the protection of World Heritage as a common resource. If we fail to conserve these exceptional sites, we fail protect our planet.
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George Abungu
Archaeologist and former Director-General, National Museums of Kenya (Kenya)
Alonzo Addison
Digital Heritage specialist, Architect, Professor, and former UNESCO Director (USA)
Mônica Bahia Schlee
Architect and urban planner, Rio de Janeiro City Hall and Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (Brazil)
Francesco Bandarin
Former Director, UNESCO World Heritage Centre and former UNESCO Asst. Director General for Culture (France)
Ivan Blokov
Program, Research and Expertise Director, Greenpeace (Russia)
Umberto Bonomo
Architect, Asst. Professor, Catholic University of Santiago; Director of the UC Cultural Heritage Center (Italy, Chile)
Christina Cameron
Former Heritage Director, Parks Canada and former President of the World Heritage Committee, 1990 and 2008 (Canada)
Yonca Erkan
Professor of Heritage Management and UNESCO Chair in Management and Promotion of World Heritage Sites, Kadir Has University (Turkey)
Giovanni Fontana Antonelli
Architect, Executive Director and Co-founder, Archi.Media Trust (Italy)
Maaike Goedkoop
Urban planner, Development and Cultural Heritage specialist (Netherlands, Switzerland)
Anna Kirilenko
Executive Director of the Ecological Movement BIOM (Kirgiz Republic)
Cyril Kormos
Founder and Executive Director, Wild Heritage (USA)
Kuanghan Li
Director of Programs, Global Heritage Fund; and Assistant Director of the UNESCO World Heritage Institute for Training and Research (China)
Jean-Louis Luxen
Professor, University of Louvain; former Secretary General, ICOMOS; and General Administrator of the Dept. of Cultural Affairs of Belgium (Belgium)
Alec Marr
World Heritage strategist and lobbyist (Australia)
Sibongile Masuku
Environmental and heritage specialist, and Lecturer, Heritage Studies, Sol Plaatje University (South Africa)
Lynn Meskell
Archaeologist, and Professor, School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania and A.D. White Professor-at-large, Cornell University (USA)
Dawson Munjeri
Professor, University of Great Zimbabwe (Zimbabwe)
Nimmy Namrata
Architect and Conservation specialist (India and Singapore)
Fernando Perez Oyarzun
Architect and Professor, Catholic University of Santiago (Chile)
Andrey Petrov
Geographer and Coordinator, World Heritage Campaigns of Greenpeace (Russia)
Daniele Pini
Professor of Urban Conservation, University of Ferrara, and Consultant in urban conservation (Italy)
Anna-Paola Pola
Architect and planner, Director urban planning and Research fellow at WHITRAP Shanghai (Italy, China)
Dennis Rodwell
Specialist, Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Development (United Kingdom)
Maria Eugenia Siguencia Avila
Asst. Professor, School of Architecture of Cuenca and Coordinator, ElucidareE H2020 (Ecuador)
Jad Tabet
President of the Lebanese Order of Engineers and Architects; and President of the Arab Union of Architects (Lebanon)
Imrana Tiwana
General Secretary of the Lahore Conservation Society (Pakistan)
Michael Turner
Architect and planner; Professor and UNESCO Chair in Urban Design and Conservation Studies, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design (Israel)
Minja Yang
President and Professor Emeritus, R. Lemaire Int’l Centre for Conservation, KU Leuven and former Director, UNESCO New Delhi Office (Belgium)