A former diplomat and science-fiction editor, among other more exotic jobs, Bruno della Chiesa is a linguist trained at the Universities of Bonn and Paris Sorbonne. After France and Germany, he has lived in Egypt, Mexico, Austria, France again, and in the United States. A self-defined “pluricultural European”, he speaks (and writes in) English, French, German and Spanish.

After about a decade in the French diplomatic service, he joined the OECD and founded there - in 1999, within the Center for Educational Research and Innovation (CERI) - the project entitled “Brain Research and Learning Sciences”, considered to be seminal work in the field of educational neuroscience. This activity led to the publication of his book Understanding the Brain: the Birth of a Learning Science (Paris: OECD, 2007; also published in Chinese, French, Japanese, Serbian, Spanish and will soon be available in Arabic).

Just after finishing this, he started to teach a yearly course entitled “Learning in A Globalizing World” at Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). As a result of his research activities at Harvard over the last four years, he created and directed the “Globalization, Languages and Cultures” program, a HGSE-CERI cooperation, which culminated in November 2011 in the publication of the book Languages in a Global World - Learning for Better Cultural Understanding (Paris: OECD).

Meanwhile, Bruno della Chiesa continues to work in the neuroscientific field as an editor for the Mind, Brain, and Education journal, and has embarked on a new endeavor which deals with future international perspectives in math and science education as related to civics. His work on “promoting and raising global awareness”, summarized in his ‘tesseracts-in-the-brain’ hypothesis (see his 2010-2011 papers) links (educational) neuroscience, (language) didactics, (socio)linguistics, (international) policy, and the (philosophy of) ethics.