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Hans d’Orville

d'Orville, Hans

d'Orville, Hans

Special Advisor to the Director-General of UNESCO; Fellow, WAAS

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Special Advisor to the Director-General of UNESCO; Fellow, WAAS

Hans d'Orville is Special Advisor to the Director-General of UNESCO, Former Assistant Director-General for Strategic Planning of UNESCO, Former Vice-Chair of UN Development Group (UNDG) and Director of the Information Technologies for Development Programme of UNDP. He is a Member and Co-founder of the Africa Leadership Forum, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria; Advisor to President of the Federal Republic of Nigeria; Economic Counsellor to the Governor of Guangdong Province and Honorary Professor at South China University of Technology’s Institute for Public Policy, Guangzhou, China.

ARTICLES BY THIS AUTHOR

Urbanization, Innovation and Governance: The Quest for Sustainable Development   ( Sustainable Development ), ( Global Governance & Law )
Get Full Text in PDF Abstract * The article discusses the interrelated issues of urbanisation, innovation and governance in the quest for sustainable development. Given present trends in urbanisation, cities are playing an ever more important role in the world’s development and globalisation process. Cities must innovate to achieve sustainability. The technologies of the Fourth Industrial Revolution enable cities to innovate in multiple ways. Innovation turns ideas into value and generates...
The Relationship between Sustainability and Creativity   ( International Organizations ), ( Sustainable Development )
 Get Full Text in PDF Abstract To achieve long-term sustainability, it is necessary to strive for a green economy and come up with solutions to address limitations to resource footprints. This will require innovations across the board and creativity in all fields. Creativity and sustainability are closely linked. The UN’s Agenda 2030 with its 17 SDGs sets out the economic, social and environmental dimensions of a sustainable world. This requires concerted efforts towards building an...
New Humanism and Sustainable Development   ( Economic Theory ), ( New Economics ), ( Sustainable Development )
 Get Full Text in PDFAbstract The call for a new humanism in the 21st century roots in the conviction that the moral, intellectual and political foundations of globalization and international cooperation have to be rethought. Whilst the historic humanism was set out to resolve tensions between tradition and modernity and to reconcile individual rights with newly emerging duties of citizenship, the new humanism approach goes beyond the level of the nation state in seeking to unite the...