Originally from Canada, where he worked extensively in vocational and  higher education, now residing in the United Kingdom, George Lueddeke PhD MEd Dipl.AVES (Hon.) is an education consultant in Higher, Medical and One Health education and global lead of the International One Health for One Planet Education and Transdisciplinary Research Initiative. 1-HOPE-TDR is a network and strategy - embracing the One Health and Wellbeing (OHW) concept/approach and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) - in association with national, regional, and global organizations. Its overall mission is to help "society better understand the essential and holistic life-sustaining  bond (glue) underpinning our relationship to each other, to other species, and to the environment." As senior lecturer in Medical Education with the University of Southampton’s Faculty of Medicine and consultant education advisor (CEA) with the London KSS Postgraduate Deanery, he was extensively involved in building human resource capacity in such areas as undergraduate/post-graduate education/research, interprofessional learning as well as quality assurance/enhancement including progressing transdisciplinary research in collaboration with the University of Pretoria’s Future Africa and the Centre for the Study of Resilience and, as consultant/project appraiser, contributing to GIZ India’s national One Health curriculum developments strengthening ‘Human-Wildlife Conflict Mitigation’ (HWC). Invited as a speaker across global regions, including a presentation on implementing 1-HOPE-TDR at the 'One Health for All 2023 forum' in Lyon, France, he has  published widely (books, articles) on global sustainability, education transformation, innovation, and leadership.  Articles of note encompass  'Toward Holistic Governance in an Interdependent World', 'Re-building Trust and Compassion in a Covid-19 World', 'Earth Future: Time for a Global ‘Reset’, and 'Planet Earth: Averting a Point of No Return?' More recently, 'A Time to Choose: Utopia vs Dystopia? Democracy is Key' highlights why our freedoms are critical for global peace, justice and sustainability. In a previous trilogy (2022) titled ‘Reflections on Higher Education in the 21st Century,’ he contends that the major problems of our time from climate change to biodiversity loss to inequities and geopolitical conflicts necessitate a change in our worldview shifting from a predominant humancentric (anthropocentric) mindset: ‘it’s all about us’ to Earth-(eco)-centrism: ‘it’s about all species and sustaining our ‘blue’ planet’. As a member of the PLEDGE Network ('A Statement of Commitment'), he contributed to making the UN 'Summit of the Future' (22/23 Sept) the "catalysing moment for building local, national and global governance for the future we need." During these uncertain times, taking on board the urgency "to cultivate an active care for the world and with those with whom we share it" (UNESCO) could not be greater.