Philippe Forêt (University of Chicago PhD) is an expert on capacity-building in new fields of knowledge and on the transfer of data and expertise with universities across Eurasia. From 2013 to 2023, he led with Marc Hall and Christoph Kueffer a pioneer program in the environmental humanities at SAGUF (Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences). A geographer by training, he is a member of the Society of Fellows at the Rachel Carson Center for Environment and Society at Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. The Institutes for Advanced Study of Uppsala, Nantes, and Bristol have elected him Fellow. His books have been published in Bern, Geneva, Honolulu, London, Leiden, Paris and Shanghai, and his work has received awards from eleven different countries.