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Jean Ziegler
Prof.
Alternative spellings: Jean Ziégler J. Ziegler Žan Zigler
B:1934Bern Biblio: Geboren im Salem-Spital in Bern, aufgewachsen in Thun. Globalisierungs- und Kapitalismuskritiker. Bis 1999 Abgeordneter (Nationalrat) im Eidgenössischen Parlament, dann Sonderberichterstatter der Vereinten Nationen für das Recht auf Nahrung; seit 2008 Mitglied des Beratenden Ausschusses des UNO-Menschenrechtsrats ; erhielt 2008 den Salzburger Landespreis für Zukunftsforschung
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Profession
Soziologe
Politiker
Sachbuchautor
Dozent
Affiliations
Université de Genève. Institut universitaire d'études du développement
Jean Ziegler (French: [ziglɛʁ]; born Hans Ziegler, 19 April 1934) is a Swiss former professor of sociology at the University of Geneva and the Sorbonne, Paris, and former vice-president of the Advisory Committee to the United Nations Human Rights Council. He was previously Member of the Swiss Parliament for the Social Democrats from 1981 to 1999. He has also held several positions with the United Nations, especially as Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food from 2000 to 2008, and as a member of the Advisory Committee of the UN Human Rights Council from 2008 to 2012. Ziegler has authored numerous works, is a lecturer, and is well known for this sentence: "A child who dies from hunger is a murdered child." (Source: DBPedia)