Dr Mechtild RÖSSLER

Director World Heritage Centre, UNESCO

An expert in cultural and natural heritage, Dr Mechtild Rössler was appointed in 2015 as the Director of the World Heritage Centre. She has a degree in geography from Freiburg University (Germany) and a Ph.D. from the Faculty for Earth Sciences, University of Hamburg (Germany) in 1988.  She joined the Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) at the Research Centre of the “Cité des Sciences et de L’Industrie” (Paris, France) in 1989 and in 1990/91 as a visiting scholar at the University of California at Berkeley, USA. In 1991, she started working at UNESCO (Paris) in the Division for Ecological Sciences and transferred in 1992 to the UNESCO World Heritage Centre. Ms Rössler has published and co-authored 13 books and more than 120 articles.