Jakob von Uexkull

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Jakob founded the Right Livelihood Award in 1980, often referred to as the 'Alternative Nobel Prize'. He is a co-founder of The Other Economic Summit (1984) and a past Member of the European Parliament (1987-9) where he served on the Political Affairs Committee.

Jakob is a patron of Friends of the Earth International and a member of the World Academy of Art and Science. He has served on the UNESCO Commission on Human Duties and Responsibilities (1998-2000); the Board of Greenpeace, Germany, and on the Council of Governance of Transparency International. He lectures widely on environment, justice and peace issues.

Jakob has been honoured by Time Magazine in 2005 as a European Hero. In 2006, he received the Binding-Prize (Liechtenstein) for the protection of nature and the environment, and, in 2008, the Erich-Fromm-Prize in Stuttgart, Germany. He has also received the Future Research Prize of the State of Salzburg, Austria (1999), the Order of the Cross of Terra Mariana of the Republic of Estonia (2001), and the Order of Merit First Class of the Federal Republic of Germany (2009).

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