Tuesday Discussion with Dorit Lehrack (China Foundation Center, CFC)
25.10.2022 16:15 – 17:15
Location: Rachel Carson Center, Conference Room (4th floor), Leopoldstr. 11a, 80802 Munich, Germany
This Tuesday, 25 October 2022, Dr. Dorit Lehrack, an expert on Chinese environments, will join us for our Tuesday Discussion. Dr. Lehrack, a physicist, is one of the founders of the Independent Institute for Environmental Issues (UfU) in Berlin, the first independent environmental research NGO in the former East Germany. From 1990 to 1996, Lehrack worked with Greenpeace, as Director of the first branch office of Greenpeace Germany in Berlin, and, with Greenpeace International, as the founder of Greenpeace offices in Moscow, Kiev, Prague, and Bratislava. From 1996 to 1999, Lehrack was the Political Director of Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). After that, she moved to China as a senior advisor to the China Association for NGO Cooperation (CANGO). Her main focus was on capacity building for Chinese grassroot NGOs. Among many honors and awards, Dorit Lehrack received the Friendship Award for International Experts from the Chinese Government in 2006.
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