Handbook of Quality of Life and Social Change

Dr Cornelia C. Walther combines praxis and research. As a humanitarian practitioner, she worked for two decades with UNICEF and the World Food Program in large scale emergencies in West Africa, Asia, and Latin America. As a senior lecturer, coach and researcher, Cornelia collaborates with various universities, including the Center for humanitarian leadership at Deakins University (Australia), Fachhochschule Münster (Germany), University of Palermo (Argentina) and Aix-Marseille’s Law faculty (France). She is presently a Senior Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton Ai and Analytics Initiative (WAIAI) and the Wharton initiative for Neuroscience (WiN); and an affiliate of the Center for Social Norms and Behavioral Dynamics (CSNBD), as well as MindCORE. Cornelia holds a doctorate in Law and is a certified yoga and meditation teacher. In 2017 she initiated the POZE dynamic (Perspective – Optimization – Zeal – Exposure) in Haiti, which has since grown into a global network of likeminded thinkers and doers around the world. The focus of her work is on the interplay of social transformation and individual transformation, including the exploration of methodologies that influences people towards wanting to get involved in inclusive social change processes. Since 2021 she works primarily on prosocial Artificial intelligence (AI) and the potential of  technology to bring out the best in people and planet. Recent books include ‘‘Development, humanitarian action and social welfare’; ‘Humanitarian work, social change and human behavior’; ‘Connection in times of Covid’, ‘Technology, Behavior and Social Change’ and Leadership for Social Change and Development. [Macmillan Palgrave/Springer, New York]. In her endeavours POZE represents the dynamic that joins the aspiration for change with pragmatic action.