Mechtild Rössler

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Mechtild Rössler is an expert in cultural and natural heritage with a degree in geography from Freiburg University (Germany) and a PhD from the Faculty for Earth Sciences, University of Hamburg (Germany). She joined the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at the Research Centre of the Museum “Cité des Sciences et de L’Industrie” (Paris, France) in 1989 and in 1990/91 was a visiting scholar at the Geography Department of the University of California at Berkeley, USA. In 1991, she started working at UNESCO (Paris) in the Division for Ecological Sciences (MAB Programme) and transferred in 1992 to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. After various positions Mechtild Rössler became the Director of the World Heritage Centre from 2015 to end of 2021. Dr Rössler has published and co-authored 13 books and more than 120 articles, including on World Heritage cultural landscapes and ‘Many voices, one vision: the early history of the World Heritage Convention’ (together with Christina Cameron, Routledge). After 30 years at UNESCO, she retired and went back to academia in 2022 as researcher (CNRS - UMR 8504 Géographie-cités) and lecturer (e.g. Heidelberg Center for Cultural Heritage - University of Heidelberg, ICCROM).

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