Stefano Keller is a Swiss-based psychopedagogue and language teacher, originally from Hungary with a BSc (1975) and an MA (1980) from Budapest and further studies in psychoanalysis at the Stiftung Szondi-Institut, Zürich (1980-83), and in language teaching methodology, with a Diploma of the Internacia Esperanto-Instituto (IEI), the Netherlands, 1984. He has taught Esperanto in Switzerland, Sri Lanka (the Universities of Colombo and Kelaniya) and other countries. He has worked with a range of Swiss NGOs. He was the Project Manager of educational and humanitarian projects in Asia as a delegate of Terre des Hommes (1986), Sentinelles and the Swiss Red Cross (1987). He was the director of refugee centres in Switzerland (Swiss Red Cross, 1989-1991).

He has a particular interest in linguistic minorities, the aspects of intercultural communication, language policy and the equitable solution of the international communication through linguistic human rights. He participates in the work of advocacy groups in favour of indigenous peoples and minorities. He is the webmaster of multilingual websites and has contributed widely to discussions on the issues of linguistic rights, minority language use, as member of discussion lists, author of articles and contributor in blogs and social networks on the Internet.

From 2006 to 2012, Stefano Keller was the secretary of the Swiss Esperanto Society (SES). In 2008, he was one of the main organizers of the Symposium on Linguistic Rights, held at the UN in Geneva. Since January 2009 he is the chief representative of the Universal Esperanto Association (UEA) to the United Nations Office in Geneva:


He is member of the Minority Research Network (MRN) from the beginning, 2009.

2010-2016: member of the Executive Board of Universal Esperanto Association (External rilations). He was the first president of the organization "Esperanto for the United Nations" (EUN) (November 2013-).

Since 2011 he is scientific collaborator of CDELI, the Center for documentation and study about the international language (esperanto: Centro de Dokumentado kaj Esploro pri la Lingvo Internacia / français: Centre de Documentation et d'Etude sur la Langue Internationale) at the City Library of La Chaux-de-Fonds (NE), Switzerland.

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• "Antaŭen por realigi la Zamenhofan revon!" - PDF-versio ( http://goo.gl/F4n3tP ) - Zamenhof-tago 2015, Torino, Italio, 12 decembro 2015. Prelego de Stefano Keller, Estrarano de UEA.
  Programo de la Zamenhof-Festo 2015 de la Centro Esperanto di Torino. Federazione Esperantista Italiana.
  

• Keller, Stefano and Skutnabb-Kangas, Tove (2013). Linguistic Human Rights, the UN's Human Rights system, and the Universal Esperanto Association's work on Language Rights. [Językowe prawa człowieka, system praw człowieka onz a wkład Światowego związku esperantystów w pracę nad prawami językowymi | Lingvaj Homaj Rajtoj, la UN-sistemo pri Homaj Rajtoj, kaj la laboro de Universala Esperanto-Asocio pri Lingvaj Rajtoj]. In Koutny, Ilona & Nowak, Piotr (eds). Jezýk, Komunikacja, Informacja. 2013. TOM VIII. [Language, Communication, Information]. Linguistic Institute of the University Adam Mickiewicz, Poznan, Poland, Pages: 150-172.
  → Download pages 150-172 (this article only): PDF. (The full book: PDF.)
  Also on: www.tove-skutnabb-kangas.org/en/all_publications.html (E: ARTICLES IN JOURNALS: 89.)
  

• Lingvaj Rajtoj - Homaj Rajtoj, difinoj kaj realeco. Agado de UEA por lingvaj rajtoj.
  Basic presentation in Esperanto (Stefano Keller & Tove Skutnabb-Kangas) of Linguistic Human Rights and the work by the Universal Esperanto Association at the United Nations on Language Rights. Sveda Esperanto-Kongreso, Karlstad, 10-12 majo 2013. (PDF-versio)
  Also on: www.tove-skutnabb-kangas.org/en/PowerPoint_presentations.html