Honorary doctor of the Faculty of Business and Economics of the University of Pécs since 10 March 2011.
Dr. Pauli was born in 1956 in Antwerpen. He studied economics and graduated from Loyola's University in Belgium, and obtained his MBA from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France.
He is a member of the Club of Rome and the Club of Budapest as a popular character in business and academic environment. He is a visiting lecturer and professor at universities in Europe, Africa and Latin America.
Under his leadership, a small European company pioneered an ecological factory. He founded the "Zero Emissions Research and Initiatives" (ZERI) at the United Nations University in Tokyo, and subsequently established The Global ZERI Network, redesigning production and consumption into clusters of industries inspired by natural systems. He is dedicated to design and implement a society and industries, which respond to people's needs using what is available from nature.
Developing these business models he established The Blue Economy, stimulating entrepreneurship while setting up new standards towards sustainability. The Blue Economy principles permit to respond to the basic needs of all with what we have. It stands for a different way of designing business by using the resources available in cascading systems, where the waste of one product becomes the input to create a new cash flow. It aims at creating jobs, building up social capital and rising income while saving the environment. An international community of companies, innovators and scientists support the concept, providing open source access to develop, implement and share prosperous business models which targets to improve natural ecosystems and quality of life.
The Blue Economy book was translated to Hungarian at the Faculty of Business and Economics, University of Pécs in 2010. Günter Pauli participated at the conference organised for the celebration of the 40th anniversary of the faculty, where he introduced his book, and held a fantastic presentation. He expressed his intents of contributing with the faculty in introducing the Blue Economy to Hungary.