Programme Committee

Dr. Biljana Papazov Ammann

„One should start with oneself, but never end with oneself“

Born in 1948 in Novi Sad, ex Jugoslavia, she grew up in Bulgaria, immersed in the Slavic tradition with a profound knowledge of the culture and the relevant three languages: Bulgarian, Serbo-Croat and Russian. Schooling was in Sofia, Moscow and again Sofia, followed by studies at the Technical University for Forestry in Sofia, where she specialized in landscape architecture.

After five years of employment in the Planning Department of “Sofproject”, she felt the need for a complete change under the stagnating political atmosphere, and made the decision to drastically alter her path by switching to philosophy where she obtained her doctorate in the Department of Methodology of Science at the Philosophical Institute of the Bulgarian Academy of Science.

In 1987, she was invited by the Swiss government as a guest scientist. Subsequently she stayed, thus enabling her to further develop her unique and sensitive approach between the Eastern and Western societies. As her awareness and knowledge of Western society developed, she sought to integrate apparently incompatible worlds: East and West, religion and science, rich and poor.

The leitmotiv of Academia-Engelberg both fascinates and challenges her genuine passion for finding the way towards a better world.

Publications on Science and Humanity, Scientific Knowledge, Social Ecology, New Approach to Understanding the World, Battle on Objectivity within Society: the female dilemma.