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Sample Topics

Sustainable Economic Policy and Management;

Strategic Foresight (Scenario Planning);

Local Development and Global Dynamics;

Comparative Economics;

Cultural Anthropology

Languages

English;

Italian

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Dipak Raj Pant, an experienced field anthropologist and an (accidental) economist, is the founder and head of the first Interdisciplinary Unit for Sustainable Economy (a research department) in Italy through which he provides environmentally sustainable and socially sound development policy and planning guidelines for governmental, non-governmental and business organizations in many parts of the world. Prof. Pant has been designing and delivering graduate and executive courses in anthropology, economics, environmental studies, development planning and business studies. He has also served as visiting professor and special guest contributor in the university departments, business schools and natural history museums in Belgium, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Mongolia, Peru, Spain, Sweden, UK, USA and West Indies.

A scholar-explorer, Prof. Pant is regarded as the pioneer of the Extreme Lands Program through which he and his collaborators have been conducting ethnographic field surveys, socio-economic analysis and collaborative scenario planning (strategic foresight exercise for economic planning) for sustainable human and economic development in the most remote and difficult terrains of the world such as the Andes, Himalayas, Caucasus, South American coastal deserts, the Gobi, steppes and Taiga of northern central Asia, and Alps and Apennines.

Recently, Prof. Pant served as the scientific coordinator of the European Union-supported EU-TransMongolia Partnership for Sustainable Tourism and Business Development in Mongolia and Inner Mongolia region of China. Author of some books and articles, Prof. Pant also serves in the editorial boards of two interdisciplinary periodicals (ENERGEO, Italy; and, JOURNAL OF PL ACE BRANDING, UK).