Prof. Pierluigi Bozzi

Prof. Bozzi is a professor and consultant of national/international organizations, with operative experience in science diplomacy accruing out of twenty-five years of studies and participation in intergovernmental processes and negotiations of Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs), UNEP, FAO, Intergovernmental Science/Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES), World Intellectual Property Rights Organizations (WIPO), among others.  
Prof. Bozzi is graduated in Law with post-graduate studies in Ecology and Environmental Science and a PhD in Institutional Environmental Economics. He is the International Coordinator of the International University Network on Cultural and Biological Diversity (IUNCBD), established under the agreement with the United Nations Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity. Prof. Bozzi is the Coordinator of the Partnership IUNCBD & ISDRS (International Sustainable Development Society – ISDRS). 
Prof. Bozzi led the IUNCBD Network Delegation that formulated and submitted a pivotal text proposal concerning formal-informal and lifelong learning education, the recognition of indigenous knowledge systems in education, and the development of curricula on conservation and sustainability, which was embraced by governments and incorporated into the CBD Global Biodiversity Framework 2030, after three years of IUNCBD Network advocacy in the negotiations. He is Professor and Coordinator of the Research-Teaching Programmes "Cultural and Biological Diversity Policy Economics and Management" at two universities in Madagascar: Department of Economics - ASJA University and Departments of Economics - University of Antananarivo.  He was Vice-President of International Relationships of A.S.J.A. St Joseph University until 2017 and adjunct Professor in universities of Ethiopia and Kenya. 
Prof. Bozzi was expert-partner of the African Union in building the PAN-African University further contributing to its development as Professor of "Environmental Policy and Law". He was expert-partner of the African Union in the field of Intellectual Property, Indigenous Knowledge, Genetic Resources and Medicinal Plant. He was barrister and expert of the Ministry of Environment and Delegate of the Government of Italy to the Convention on Biological Diversity Working Groups for the negotiation of the Nagoya Protocol. He was a peer reviewer of the African Union Policy Framework and Guidelines for the implementation of the Nagoya Protocol on access to genetic resources and benefit sharing in the African Region.