Louise Fresco

'Louise Fresco Odilia' (officially, Ottilie Louise Fresco) (Meppel, February 11 1952) is a Dutch scientist, director and writer.

Life

Fresco studied agricultural sociology of the non-western areas in Wageningen. After her study she conducted fieldwork among other things, in Papua New Guinea Haiti and Burkina Faso. In 1986 she did a PhD on the cassava production in Africa.

Between 1991 and 1997 she worked as professor of crop production systems of the tropics and sub-tropics at Wageningen University. Until mid-2006 she was the Deputy Director-General for Agriculture of the FAO at the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations.

By June 1, 2006 accepted the post University Professor at the University of Amsterdam, which focusses on the foundations of sustainable development in international perspective. <ref> / object.cfm / objectid = D0A5261A-5268-4284-952398C1FABF3471 Louise Fresco university professor at the University of Amsterdam </ ref>

Fresco is a member of the Supervisory Board of Rabobank Nederland. In the autumn of 2006 she gave the Duisenberg Lecture in Singapore, entitled "Biomass for food or fuel: Is there a dilemma?"

Louise Fresco also wrote columns in NRC Handelsblad (section Education and Science) and literary criticism in Het Parool and Vrij Nederland. She also published a collection of three novels, a collection of essays and the essay Schaduwdenkers en Lichtzoekers (Huizinga Lecture 1998). Her novel De Utopisten was nominated in March 2008 for the Libris literatuurprijs.

On May 11, 2007 it was announced that Fresco Jacqueline Cramer it will follow as Chair of the Social and Economic Council (SER). Cramer left earlier due to her appointment as minister. The appointment of Fresco covers the period 1 June 2007 to 1 April 2008. <ref> [SER http://www.ser.nl/publicaties/default.asp?Desc=nieuws_20070511 News] </ ref>

In addition, Fresco in 2006 session in the Commission Beta canon and in 2007 the Delta Commission new style.

Bibliography

Novels

• Bambusa (1990)
• De kosmopolieten (2003)
• De tuin van de sultan van Rome (2005)
• De utopisten (2007)

Non-fiction

• De ondraaglijke lichtheid van de vleermuis: essays & beschouwingen (1997) (bundel)
• Schaduwdenkers & lichtzoekers (1998) (Huizingalezing)
• Nieuwe spijswetten: over voedsel en verantwoordelijkheid (2006)
• Het einde van de universiteit (volgens een rapport van de Universiteit van Oeloemia) (2007) (diesrede UvA)

Academic

• Cassava in shifting cultivation: a systems approach to agricultural technology development in Africa(1986) (thesis)

External links

• The marathon interview VPRO 1 August, 2008, Radio 1, 9:00 am to 12:00 pm, with interviewer Rob van Hattum ( listen)
• Interview: Louise Fresco De Volkskrant, August 3, 2006.
• resignation letter of Louise Fresco, FAO In the press leaked letter of resignation to the Director General of the FAO. Guardian, May 14, 2006