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    • Jean Malaurie
    Professor Jean Malaurie, director of the Centre d’Etudes Arctiques (Centre of Arctic Studies) at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS) in Paris and director emeritus for research at the Centre National de Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), is a leading ethnohistorian and geomorphologist.

    Born in 1922 in Mainz, Germany, first European to reach the North Pole in May 1951, Professor Malaurie has led more than 30 scientific expeditions that have taken him throughout the Great North from Greenland to Siberia. The author of numerous books, including "The Last Kings of Thule", translated in 23 languages, and "Call of the North", he founded the Terre Humaine publishing house to make ethnology accessible to a wider public.

    His designation as Goodwill Ambassador, in charge of arctic polar issues, recognizes his "personal commitment to promoting environmental issues and to safeguarding the culture and knowledge of the peoples of the Great North".

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    Jean Malaurie participates in a Panel on Climate Change and Indigenous Peoples
    On 17 October 2007, Professor Jean Malaurie, UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador for Arctic polar issues, participated in the International Panel “Climate Change & Indigenous Peoples: impacts and responses” at UNESCO Headquarters, which was organized in the framework of the General Conference Exhibition on Planet (see article above). More

    Claudia Cardinale and Professor Jean Malaurie honour inauguration of the General Conference’s Planet Earth exhibition
    Planet-Earth-exhibition_tn.jpgOn 16 October 2007, the UNESCO Director-General, Mr Koïchiro Matsuura, inaugurated the exhibition entitled “Planet Earth: from Space to Place” in the presence of HM Carl XVI Gustaf, King of Sweden, and UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors Mrs Claudia Cardinale, the Italian actress, and Professor Jean Malaurie, the French ethnologist and historian. More

    Professor Jean Malaurie joins ranks of UNESCO Goodwill Ambassadors
    Malaurie+DG_tn.jpgFrench professor Jean Malaurie was designated a UNESCO Goodwill Ambassador, in charge of arctic polar issues, by UNESCO’s Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura during a ceremony on 17 July 2007 at Organization Headquarters, in the presence of Her Excellency Mrs Joëlle Bourgois, Ambassador, Permanent Delegate of France to UNESCO. More
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