Max Calderan

The explorer Max Calderan was born in Italy and holds 14 world-first records for extreme desert explorations. In February 2020, he crossed 1,100km of the Empty Quarter (Rub Al Khali) of Saudi Arabia, the largest sand desert in the world. It had never been crossed on foot or by car by anyone before him, a place shrouded in mystery, legend and secrets never revealed. Due to this, the Calderan Line was born and added to the geographical maps of the Arabian Peninsula and certified by Google Maps as a Historical Landmark.

Max is bilingual and fluent in English and Italian

He has a strong sports history in extreme climbing and skiing, reaching excellent performance levels in over 15 sports disciplines. His achievements include a gold medal national winner of the military Pentathlon and the Medal for Civil Valor, awarded by the President of the Republic Francesco Cossiga. In 2015, the United Nations appointed him an ambassador for the CACP project, safeguarding the Asian cheetah.

He has been the star of numerous documentaries, including 'Beyond the Limit' and 'Son of The Desert' which describes the coast-to-coast journey in the Sinai Peninsula, 250 km in 48 hours, observing fasting during the Arab Ramadan.

Max is now an accredited expert on climate change, and desertification.

His impressive experience based on his thousands of meetings, seminars, congresses, workshops, and programs related to the environment, educational programs, culture, motivational coaching and, of course, health, is adding a rare value to share insights and best practices on building and transforming the culture for a better future vision of the world and of the people.

Regreening - Sustainability - Climate Change - Desertification

Max Calderan has always been interested in how people of various cultures live, how institutions in different setting function and how both adapt to changes in their environment. In the last ten years, he has focused on the interplay of climate change, sustainable development and urbanity with applications to climate change impacts, environmental equity, individual behaviour, modes of learning, communication, and planning policy and practice in international and inter-cultural comparisons.

Max Calderan is not only a legendary desert explorer; in his professional life, he is an expert in desertification, climate change, sustainability and regreening. His most vital skill has been giving value to all his contacts, including experts, universities, people, bedouins, big companies in construction, renewable energy, companies related to audit and assurance, consulting, risk and financial advisory, and risk management.

Max has a clear to-do list he shares with professionals. The best solution is to create a platform for sharing high-level concepts and visions, and he can manage such interaction management.

He believes in finding the right technology to integrate with the environment and the people living there. The solution has to be able to self-adapt to the continuous changing of the future environment. Max owns, together with a Doctor Genetist, a laboratory in the University of Florence. They do environment and environmental analysis and laboratory certification, genetic analysis, and microbiome intestine bacteria analysis.