Ole von Uexkuell

Jens Ole von Uexküll (born February 24, 1978) is executive director of the Stockholm-based Right Livelihood Award Foundation.[1] Founded in 1980, the Right Livelihood Awards are given annually to people pioneering "exemplary solutions to our most urgent global problems" in the fields of the environment, human rights, peace or development.

Von Uexküll has earlier worked on renewable energy and green design with the German Parliament, UNEP's Division of Technology, Industry, and Economics in Paris and the Rocky Mountain Institute in Colorado. He is a great-grandson of the biologist Jakob von Uexküll and a nephew of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation's founder Jakob von Uexkull.[2]

References

  1. ^ "Interview with Ole von Uexkull, Executive Director of the RLA Foundation | October 2015 | Genève internationale". geneve-int.ch. Canton of Geneva. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
  2. ^ "Palestinian, Filipino and Mozambican activists and a London research agency given human rights award". The Independent. Associated Press. 3 October 2024. Retrieved 14 May 2025.
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