Born in 1921, under the name of Edgar Nahoum (the name "Morin" was adopted during the French Resistance). Sociologist by academic standards (emeritus researcher at the French National Center for Scientific Research - CNRS), Edgar Morin incarnates in fact transdisciplinarity by his work (starting with his first book published in 1946 L'an zéro de l'Allemagne till his last book La violence du monde - with Jean Baudrillard - published in 2003) covering a bewildering range of interests, form the cinema to modern biology and dismissing any disciplinary boudaries. He became internationally famous - especially in Latin America - by attaching his name to the approach of complexity. He is president of the European Agency for Culture (UNESCO), president of the Association for Complex Thought (APC) and member of the council of the International Center for Transdisciplinary Research and Studies (CIRET). His Opus Magnus is The Method (in five volumes). Several of his books were translated in English: The Stars (1960), The Red and the White: Report from a French Village (1970), Method: Towards a Study of Mankind - The Nature of Nature (1992), Homeland Earth (1998), Seven Complex Lessons in Education for the Future (1999), Concept of Europe (forthcoming).