Dr. Brigitte Portner

Areas of professional focus at CDE

• Sustainable development in mountain regions
• Inter- and transdisciplinary knowledge production for sustainability transformations
• Innovations for sustainability transformation
• Scholarly publishing

Projects

• Mountain Research and Development
• Online International Bachelor & Master School ‘Co-designing pathways for transformative change’
• Unboxing Biodiversity Policy
• Transformation stream: From Visioning to Action
• Promoting innovations for sustainable development in mountain areas (PRIMA)
• Global Land Programme

Further professional interests

• Landscape approaches, smallholder agriculture
• Digital learning experiences
• Transformation literacy
• Participatory deliberative approaches

Field experience

Ethiopia, Kyrgyzstan, Mali, Mexico, Switzerland

Languages

German, English, Spanish, French, Italian