Jens Ole von Uexküll (born February 24, 1978) is
executive director
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of the
Stockholm
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-based
Right Livelihood Award
The Right Livelihood Award is an international award to "honour and support those offering practical and exemplary answers to the most urgent challenges facing us today." The prize was established in 1980 by German-Swedish philanthropist Jakob v ...
Foundation. Founded in 1980, the Right Livelihood Awards are given annually to people pioneering "exemplary solutions to our most urgent global problems" in the fields of the
environment
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,
human rights
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,
peace
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or
development
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Arts
*Development hell, when a project is stuck in development
*Filmmaking, development phase, including finance and budgeting
*Development (music), the process thematic material is reshaped
*Photographi ...
.
Ole has earlier worked on
renewable energy
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and
green design
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with the
German Parliament
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, UNEP 's Division of
Technology
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, Industry, and
Economics
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in
Paris
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and the Rocky Mountain Institute in
Colorado
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. He is a great-grandson of the biologist
Jakob von Uexküll
Jakob may refer to:
People
* Jakob (given name), including a list of people with the name
* Jakob (surname), including a list of people with the name
Other
* Jakob (band), a New Zealand band, and the title of their 1999 EP
* Max Jakob Memorial Aw ...
and a nephew of the Right Livelihood Award Foundation's founder
Jakob von Uexkull
Jakob may refer to:
People
* Jakob (given name), including a list of people with the name
* Jakob (surname), including a list of people with the name
Other
* Jakob (band), a New Zealand band, and the title of their 1999 EP
* Max Jakob Memorial Aw ...
.
External links
* http://www.rightlivelihood.org
1978 births
Living people
Swedish activists
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