Gianfranco Bologna is the Honorary President of the Scientific Community of WWF Italy and Secretary General of the Aurelio Peccei Foundation, representing the Club of Rome in Italy. He was Secretary General of WWF Italy from 1994 to 2000.
He has 50 years of experience in nature conservation and sustainability, with a particular focus on education, training, and planning projects on these issues. He has held and continues to hold lectures and seminars on sustainability in various universities. He studied biological sciences at Rome University La Sapienza and he was an ornithologist, writing books and encyclopedias on nature and birds that were translated into several languages, including English, French, and Swedish.
Gianfranco was a non-governmental expert of the Italian official delegations at some UN conferences (such as the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 and the Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg in 2002). He was a member of several national commissions on environment and sustainability and a member of the Italian Natural Capital Committee at the Minister of Environment which publishes an official report on the Natural Capital in Italy every year since 2016.
He is active in nature conservation and sustainability publishing. For 27 years, he has been the Italian editor of the “State of the World” report by Worldwatch Institute, as well as more than one hundred books by important international experts on these issues, including some reports to The Club of Rome. He wrote several books, including a sustainability manual, the first primer book in Italy that introduced sustainability science. His latest book is We are nature. A new way of being in the world published in 2022, with a new edition released in 2023.
Read an interview with Gianfranco Bologna on becoming a sustainability advocate.
