Dr. Elisabeth Ferrero

Dr. Elisabeth Ferrero, Ph.D. is Professor Emerita of Ethics at Saint Thomas University in Miami, Florida. She was closely involved with the Earth Charter process since 1998, when she worked on the official Italian translation of Draft II of the Earth Charter and started an Italian Earth Charter National Committee. Along with Dr. Joe Holland, she is the author of The Earth Charter: A Study Book of Reflection For Action [Redwoods Press, 2002], which has been translated into Italian, Portuguese and German. She has held conferences and seminars at various universities.

Among the conferences which she has organized are the ten Spirituality & Sustainability Conferences in Assisi and Rome. These were born in the early 1990s as part of SAFE (Study Abroad For Earth) programs. In Assisi, students learned from scholars such as Tom Berry & Brian Swimme.  

SAFE programs received the Rodale Foundation Award in 1992 (out of 1,600 colleges and universities which applied) due to St Thomas University’s most innovative environmental education programs. 

International scholars came to the S&S conferences, working side by side with students who continued their studies through the SAFE programs. They learned from one another and transformed their consciousness.

The most recent conference was held in June 2023 in Assisi and Rome.