09 December 2024 – The Club of Rome, a platform for leading scientists, economists, policy and business leaders to collaborate and promote leading edge thinking, has elected Silvia Zimmermann del Castillo as its new co-president. Zimmermann del Castillo is an Argentinean writer, philosopher and international lecturer.
“It is with great honour that I assume the position of co-president of The Club of Rome, a role that I promise to fulfil with full dedication and deep gratitude. It is my aim to work closely with the whole team to enhance the outstanding legacy that we receive from Sandrine Dixson-Declève and Mamphela Ramphele. I will collaborate closely with all our members and national associations with attentive listening and open dialogue.”
Zimmermann del Castillo will serve as co-president alongside Paul Shrivastava, who was appointed as co-president in November 2023.
“I am looking forward to working with Silvia over the coming years. She brings a fresh perspective to the leadership team with her experience in education and culture.” Commented Shrivastava.
Zimmermann del Castillo is founder and president of the Argentine Chapter of the Club of Rome, she has been a member of The Club of Rome since 2023 and was elected as a member of the Executive Committee at the recent Annual General Meeting in Brussels in November.
“I aspire to foster initiatives in the field of arts and humanities. I do believe, these are paths to knowledge that cannot be ignored nor neglected when taking a systemic approach. They will help to delve deeper in the mindset of people and societies, in the search of answers to the environmental-sociopolitical crisis that humanity faces with confusion and fatigue, and in which the very human being is the key factor of its collapse or of its renaissance. I truly believe that time has come to carry out what Aurelio Peccei so lucidly foresaw would take place as necessary and urgent sometime in the future: a humanistic revolution able to give rise to a new humanism.” Continues Zimmermann del Castillo.
Silvia Zimmermann del Castillo was a disciple and collaborator of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges with whom she studied ancient Anglo-Saxon and Icelandic literatures. She studied Social and Cultural Anthropology at the École Pratiques des Hautes Études, La Sorbonne, Paris and Philosophy at the University of Buenos Aires.
Currently, she is a columnist for the newspaper La Nación, writing for the Opinion and Cultural Supplement sections. She co-directed the Watershed Conference on Water at the Vatican in 2017. She coordinated “Dialogues in Paradise” at the Mokichi Okada Art Museum, Japan: face-to-face meetings between personalities of culture, art and science from various countries of the East and West to discuss art issues, culture and society. She is the International Director of the Mokichi Okada Chair on Beauty at the University of Bologna, Italy and author of multiple publications.
In 1983, she was selected as an outstanding woman of the national history by the Dictionary of Argentinean Women. She has been distinguished as Ambassador of Peace, by the International Foundation Thousand Millennia of Peace.
Silvia Zimmermann del Castillo was elected as co-president by members of The Club of Rome Executive Committee on 6 December 2024. Sandrine Dixson-Declève – who was the previous co-president, stepped down in November after completing two 3-year terms as a member of the executive committee. Dixson-Declève will continue her role as Executive Chair of Earth4All and as a Global Ambassador for The Club of Rome.
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