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Pierre William Johnson is a French and American sociologist, economist and writer. His work deals mainly on social and environmental aspects of sustainable development.

Youth
Born in the United States to an American father (Ira D. Johnson) and a French mother (Christiane Ducros), the family of Pierre Johnson left the United States when he was 2 years old to settle in Paris where he will be studying. He is the eldest of three brothers. His parents regularly organize trips to the United States, during exchanges with universities on the East coast or summer holidays. In 1974, the mother and her 3 sons take the France in Le Havre to sail to New York, while Ira flies there. After the death of Ira ​​D. Johnson in April 1976, Christiane raises the three children alone. A few years later (1978–79) she organizes an exchange year in Stores, Connecticut. During the summer, the Johnson cross the United States from East to West with a friend family, the Buneaux, including the parents and two young sons.

Studies
Back in the France, Pierre Johnson joins the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. Concerned with social and philosophical issues, he decides after his BA (1983) to study social sciences, leading a parallel preparatory curriculum at Lakanal (Sceaux) and studying philosophy (Master on the idea of ​​the nation in the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau with Etienne Balibar), then sociology and planning applied to developing countries (1994). He teaches English in parallel to meet his needs. Wishing to apply knowledge to development issues he does a 5 month internship in the Asia department of United Cities Development (decentralized cooperation).

First field works
At the end of 1994, P. Johnson volunteers in Thailand for a large national NGO, Population and Community Development Association. Based in Maha Sarakham, in the region of Isan, he helps the local team in reporting to donors on rural development projects (community water development, reforestation ...).

Back in France for Christmas 1995, he accepts a short-term contract with the Asian department of United Cities Development, then decides to go in Latin America. Volunteer for CEDAL, a center of study and documentation on Latin America, he wants to know this continent. he follows first a training in project management in Brussels to receive a grant from the National Centre for Development Cooperation (CNCD) supporting volunteers working for civil society in developing countries. In May 1996 he departs for Mexico and Central America to identify contacts for CEDAL and organizations which may need his services. After meeting with various initiatives in Mexico, Guatemala and Honduras, a contract is established with the coordination of coffee producer organizations of the state of Oaxaca (Mexico), for a program of support to local development and evaluation of member organizations of the coordination of two years. During this period, P. Johnson organizes participatory workshops with producer organizations, and initiates his experience of the dynamics of producer organizations. He remains in Oaxaca for another year. In 1999, he identifies for Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation innovative initiatives likely to contribute to the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World, an informal network supported by the foundation. During his stay in Mexico, he is also contact for the review of the Belgian cooperation Demain le monde, columnist and correspondent for Caravan, magazine of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World.

Facilitator of communities of practices on social innovations and first publications
Back in France late 1999, he works two years for Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation at the position of editor of the Web site of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World, in three languages (English, French, Spanish). On this occasion, he meets many leaders of social innovation, social and solidarity economy (Marcos Arruda, Chilo Villareal ...), industrial ecology (Suren Erkman), finance ethics (Paul Dembinski), etc. At the suggestion of Laurent Fraisse, he organizes the first meeting of the fair trade workshop, on his return from Mexico, then also assumes the coordination of this group within the Solidarity Socio-Economy Workgroup for 6 years (2000-2006). The coordinator of this workgroup is then Philippe Amouroux (deceased March 2006). P. Johnson wrote the Proposal Paper "Fair Trade in the 21st century" with contributions from members of the fair trade workshop. These responsibilities led him to participate in the 2001 and 2005 editions of the World Social Forum, with the delegation of the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation coordinated by Gustavo Marin and Philippe Amouroux, as well as to other meetings organized by the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation, on governance and land management, for example.

In 2002, while the Charles Léopold Mayer Foundation staff begins a sabbatical, P. Johnson is Rapporteur of the Working Group on Ethical Trade and Fair Trade of the French Committee for the World Summit on Sustainable Development. He prepared in parallel with the association Yamana a type II project for the study of Mexican fair trade label, the first label of its kind in a producer country. In 2003, he goes to Mexico several months for the study of Mexican fair trade label for Yamana, with funding from the Interministerial Delegation for Innovation and Social Economy. This study is published in French and Spanish on his website (below) and on Academia.edu.

from 2004 à 2009
From 2004 to 2009, P. Johnson carries out assignments for various organizations, including the United Nations Development Programme.

2004
 * Socio-economic Agenda for the 21st Century, Workgroup on a Solidarity Socio-Economy of the Alliance for a Responsible, Plural and United World
 * Updating the Proposals booklet Fair Trade for the 21st century, and translations in English, Spanish, Portuguese, Italian and Chinese

2005
 * National Study of Fair Trade in Guatemala for the United Nations Development Programme
 * Socio-environmental audit of Usina Catende (Pe, Brazil) Imaflora and France Freedom Foundation

2006
 * Project Manager: Mediations on trade and agriculture, water for Bridge Initiative (until June 2007)
 * Participation in the International Forum on Solidarity Tourism and Trade Fair in Tuxtla Gutierrez, Chiapas, Mexico
 * Mission to Morocco for the Moroccan Network Social and Solidarity Economy

2007
 * 2nd mission to Morocco for Moroccan Network for Social and Solidarity Economy: drafting of the action plan and charter

2008
 * Contract with Association 4D the online launch of Encyclopedia of Sustainable Development

2009
 * Participation in a study tour in French Guiana and the Brazilian Amazon organized by the Fondation France Libertés
 * Mission to Brazil for the prefiguration of a study on the social responsibility of ethanol industry in the state of São Paulo
 * He launches Solecopedia International Encyclopedia of Social and Solidarity Economy, soon extended to ecological economics
 * Contract for the completion of the program ECOST (sustainable fishing) with REEDS laboratory at the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University, Mission to Can Tho (Vietnam).

End of 2009, gets a grant to enrole in the Master degree in Mediation of Environmental knowledge at the Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University

Since 2010
2010
 * Gets a Masters degree on Environmental Mediation (October)
 * Field work: enhancing solidarity trade of handicrafts of traditional communities in French Guiana (September)
 * Interviews on the impacts of illegal gold mining in French Guiana (October)

2011 2012
 * Contract for the EJOLT programme (environmental justice, liabilities and trade) with the laboratory REEDS of Versailles-Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University (until September 2012)
 * Advice and support to an innovative sailboat shipping startup
 * Conference on Alternatives to Biopiracy at Centifolia Congress 2011 (Grasse, France).
 * Publication of the book "Biopiraterie : Quelles alternatives au pillage des ressources naturelles et des savoirs ancestraux ?" (Biopiracy: what alternatives to the plundering of natural resources and ancient knowledge?", Éditions Charles Léopold Mayer
 * Conferences on alternatives to biopiracy in France and Morocco.
 * Participation the conference of the International Society of Ecological Economics, to side-events of the Rio + 20 Conference and to the People's Summit

Books

 * Biopiraterie : Quelles alternatives au pillage des ressources naturelles ?, Éditions Charles Léopold Mayer, Paris, 2012
 * Situación actual de los mercados justos en Guatemala, United Nations Development Programme, Guatemala City, 2005
 * Commerce équitable, Propositions pour des échanges solidaires au service du développement durable, 2003

Reports

 * Labels et stratégies de commerce équitable au Mexique
 * El Comercio Justo en México Sellos de Garantía y Estrategias