10 Facts About Manfred Max-Neef

Manfred Max-Neef started his career as a professor of economics at the University of California, Berkeley in the early 1960s.

Manfred Max-Neef was known for his taxonomy of fundamental human needs and human scale development.

Manfred Max-Neef traveled through Latin America and the United States, as a visiting professor in various universities, as well as living with and researching the poor.

Manfred Max-Neef worked with the problem of development in the Third World, describing the inappropriateness of conventional models of development that have contributed to poverty, debt and ecological disasters for Third World communities.

In 1981, Manfred Max-Neef wrote From the Outside Looking In: Experiences in Barefoot Economics, a narrative of his travels among the poor in South America.

In 1982, Manfred Max-Neef won the Right Livelihood Award for his work in poverty-stricken areas of developing countries.

Manfred Max-Neef ran for President of Chile as an independent in the 1993 election.

In 1993, Manfred Max-Neef was appointed rector of the Universidad Austral de Chile in Valdivia.

Manfred Max-Neef is affiliated with the European Academy of Sciences and Arts, the Club of Rome, the New York Academy of Sciences, and the Leopold Kohr Academy of Salzburg.

Manfred Max-Neef was a council member of the World Future Council.