Edith SIZOO, born in the Netherlands, Masters degree from the Free University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, is a socio-linguist, has worked within the framework of Development Cooperation, in Hong Kong and India, at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Netherlands, as Director of the Netherlands federation of Non-Governmental Development Organisations, as International Coordinator of the Network Cultures and Development in Brussels, where she was responsible in particular for its programmes on “Language and intercultural communication” and “Female thinking and social transformation”.

Since 2003 she is coordinating an international process, initiated by the Foundation Charles Léopold Mayer, for the promotion of an international Charter of Human Responsibilities. She serves as International Coordinator of the Forum on Ethics&Responsibility: www.ethica-respons.net

She coordinated several intercultural research projects and directed the ensuing publication of books related to the research concerned: CULTURES ENTR’ ELLES : DYNAMIQUE OU DYNAMITE ? SIZOO, E. et VERHELST, T.G., co-éditeurs, deux tomes, Editions Charles Léopold Mayer, Paris, 1994

WOMEN’S LIFE WORLDS – narratives on women’s ways of shaping their realities, SIZOO, E. (ed), Routledge, London, 1990

UNIVERS DE FEMMES – récits de femmes à la croisée des cultures du XXe siècle, SIZOO, E., INDIGO&Côté Femmes, paris, 1998

CE QUE LES MOTS NE DISENT PAS : l’art de l’écoute interculturelle, SIZOO, E., Editions Charles Léopold Mayer, Paris, 1999

WHAT WORDS DO NOT SAY : the art of intercultural listening, SIZOO, E., Editions Charles Léopold Mayer, Paris, 1999

PAR DELA LE FEMINISME, SIZOO, E., Editions Charles Léopold Mayer, Paris, 2004.

RESPONSABILITE ET CULTURES DU MONDE , sous la direction de SIZOO, Edith, Editions Charles Léopold Mayer, Paris, 2008.

RESPONSIBILITY AND CULTURES OF THE WORLD, Edited by SIZOO Edith, Peter Lang Editors, 2010