An oral history: interviews with the pioneers of the World Heritage Convention

 An international team of researchers is conducting interviews with pioneers of World Heritage to capture memories of important moments in the history of the World Heritage Convention.

Launched in 2006 under the leadership of the Canada Research Chair on Built Heritage at the University of Montreal, and developed in collaboration with UNESCO Archives, this initiative is part of the UNESCO History project that celebrated the 60th anniversary of the creation of UNESCO. The Oral Archives project records the precious accounts of people closely associated with the creation and implementation of the Convention. 

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Oral Archives of the
World Heritage Convention

Listen 59 interviews

• Carmen Añón Feliú fr / 2009
• Francesco Bandarin en / 2014 
• Francesco Bandarin en / 2018 
• Françoise Bercé fr / 2019
• Azedine Beschaouch fr /2010
• Irina Bokova en / 2018
• Gérard Bolla fr / 2007
• Mounir Bouchenaki fr / 2009
• Max Bourke en / 2013
• Hans Caspary fr /2011
• Lucien Chabason fr /2012
• Henry Cleere en / 2008
• Jim Collinson en /2010 
• Alissandra Cummins en /2017 
• Bernd von Droste en / 2008
• Catherine Dumesnil fr / 2009
• Hal Eidsvik en / 2009
• Tamás Fejérdy fr / 2018
• Francesco Francioni en / 2010
• Guo Zhan en / 2010
• Natarajan Ishwaran en / 2009
• Jukka Jokilehto en / 2010
• Joseph King en / 2014
• Vera Lacoeuilhe en / 2017
• François LeBlanc fr / 2009
• Francisco Lopez Morales fr / 2010
• Jean-Louis Luxen fr / 2009
• Julia Marton-Lefèvre en / 2009
• Koïchiro Matsuura en / 2009
• Federico Mayor fr / 2009
• Amadou-Mahtar M’Bow fr / 2009
• Jeffrey A. McNeely en / 2010
• Robert C. Milne en / 2009
• Eleonora Mitrofanova en / 2019
• Stephen Morris en / 2019
• Dawson Munjeri en / 2010
• Jean Musitelli fr / 2019
• Krzysztof Pawlowski fr / 2018
• Adrian Phillips en / 2008
• Harald Plachter en / 2011
• Léon Pressouyre fr / 2008
• Jacek Purchla en / 2018
• Jonathan Putnam en / 2019
• John Reynolds en / 2011
• David Sheppard en / 2012
• Roland Silva en / 2011
• Sok An en / 2014
• Herb Stovel en / 2011
• Sharon Sullivan en / 2013
• James Thorsell en / 2010
• Abdelaziz Touri fr / 2011
• Russell E. Train en / 2008
• Michael Turner en / 2017
• Jane Robertson Vernhes en / 2009
• Licia Vlad Borrelli fr / 2010
• Zsolt Visy en / 2018
• Raymond Wanner en / 2011
• Gamini Wijesuriya en / 2018
• Christopher Young en / 2018