Ms Lourdes ARIZPE

• Professor, National Autonomous University of Mexico

• Keynote Speaker (*Video Message)

Toward Incorporating Local People´s Creativity in a New World Culture

Lourdes Arizpe (Mexico) received an MA from the National School of History and Anthropology in Mexico in 1970; a PhD in Anthropology from the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, in 1975; and an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Florida at Gainesville in 2010. She is a professor at the Regional Center for Multidisciplinary Research of the National University of Mexico. Her anthropological research focused on migration, rural women, development, the human dimensions of global environmental change and cultural heritage. She was Director of the National Museum of Popular Cultures in 1995-1998. Professor Arizpe received a Fulbright grant in 1979 and a John F. Guggenheim grant in 1981. She became a member of the United Nations Commission on Culture and Development in 1990 and soon after Assistant Director General for Culture at UNESCO 1994–98. She was a member of the Academic Faculty of the Global Economic Forum at Davos, Switzerland 2000–2004 and of United Nations Committee for Development Policy of the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) 2006-2012. She was an advisor on the UNESCO International Conventions on Intangible Cultural Heritage (2003) and Cultural Diversity (2005). Her major studies were published in three volumes by Springer-Verlag in 2013-15 and may be consulted at <http://www.afes-pressbooks.de/html/SpringerBriefs_ESDP06.htm> and <http://www.afes-press-books.de/html/SpringerBriefs_PSP_Arizpe.htm>.