Mario Salomone is Secretary-General of the worldwide network organizing the WEECs (World Environmental Education Congresses) on sustainability/environmental education and education for sustainable development. The 11th WEEC will be held in Prague, Czech Republic, in 2022.
He also sits on the Boards at UNESCO Chair on sustainable development and territory management (Torino University, Italy) and the Club of Rome, Italian Chapter.
Mario Salomone has a degree in Philosophy. He is a Sociologist, university professor, journalist, writer of novels and tales, lecturer in hundreds of conferences, and editor of the scientific journal Culture of Sustainability, founded in 2007, and of the magazine .Eco, founded in 1989.
Currently, he teaches Environmental Sociology at the Master in Socio-environmental Sustainability of Agri-food Networks at the Torino University. He has been a professor of Environmental Education, Environmental Sociology, and Tourism in Local development at the University of Bergamo and Political Communication at Milano IULM University.
Mario Salomone has a role in environmental communication as co-founder and past President of the Italian Federation of environmental media and co-founder of the IECA (International Environmental Communication Association).