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UNESCO Representative Prof. Shahbaz Khan Visits ICCSD
2025-12-01 ICCSD

Prof. Shahbaz Khan (second from right) visits ICCSD

On October 22, 2025, Prof. Shahbaz Khan, Director of the UNESCO Multisectoral Regional Office for East Asia, paid a visit to the International Center for Creativity and Sustainable Development (ICCSD) under the auspices of UNESCO (Category 2). Prof. Khan visited ICCSD's office and held in-depth discussions with Prof. Hans d'Orville,  Former UNESCO Assistant Director-General for Strategic Planning, and Chairman of ICCSD Advisory Committee, as well as Mr. Xiao Lan, Executive Director of ICCSD.

Prof. Shahbaz Khan giving a speech at ICCSD Advisory Committee Meeting

As a special guest expert, Prof. Shahbaz Khan also attended the ICCSD Advisory Committee Meeting, held on the afternoon. In his speech, he highly commended ICCSD's achievements and emphasized that the Meeting's focus on creativity, artificial intelligence (AI), and sustainable development aligns closely with UNESCO's core priorities. Prof. Shahbaz Khan recognized ICCSD's important contributions to advancing these areas. He further noted that AI ethics and development, the implementation of the outcome document of the UNESCO 2025 Mondiacult, and the advancement of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) are key areas of concern for UNESCO, where ICCSD plays a pivotal role. He also highlighted the central importance of AI within China's national development strategy. Looking to the future cooperation, Prof. Shahbaz Khan emphasized the importance of capacity building and expressed willingness to deepen collaboration with ICCSD and relevant Chinese institutions. He concluded by expressing his hope that, through joint efforts, creativity will continue to drive progress toward sustainable development.

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The International Center for Creativity and Sustainable Development under the Auspices of UNESCO (Category 2) was approved at the 38th session of UNESCO General Assembly in November 2015. In 2017, the People's Government of Beijing Municipality signed the agreement with UNESCO. ICCSD becomes the world's first UNESCO Category 2 center with the theme of "creativity and sustainable development". With the support and guidance of UNESCO, the Center intends to build the world's high-level international platform that aims at creativity and sustainable development, and includes the functions of research, training, cooperation, communication, demonstration etc. The Center shall become a first-class think-tank gathering talents throughout the world, building a global renowned "laboratory of thoughts" with a focus on creativity and innovation. It shall promote cultural exchanges and cooperation, disseminate and support Chinese enterprises, technology and culture.
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