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Gar Alperovitz |
Gar Alperovitz, Lionel R. Bauman Professor of Political Economy at the University of Maryland, is a Founding Principal of The Democracy Collaborative. He is a former Fellow of the Institute of Politics at Harvard and King's College of Cambridge University. He has served as a Legislative Director in the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, and as a Special Assistant in the Department of State. Earlier he was President of the Center for Community Economic Development, Co-Director of The Cambridge Institute, and President of the Center for the Study of Public Policy. Dr. Alperovitz's numerous articles have appeared in publications ranging from The New York Times and The Washington Post to The Journal of Economic Issues, Foreign Policy, Diplomatic History, and other academic and popular journals. Dr. Alperovitz is also author of The Decision to Use the Atomic Bomb, published in 1995, and the 2002 book, Making a Place for Community: Local Democracy in a Global Era (with Thad Williamson and David Imbroscio). Read Gar Alperovitz's E. F. Schumacher Lecture: Distributing Our Technological Inheritance.
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Jessica Brackman |
Jessica Brackman was CEO of FPG International, a leading stock photography agency recognized for its creative innovation, commitment to social issues and unique corporate culture. During her tenure there, she became involved with the Social Venture Network (SVN) and served on the board of the Aperture Foundation, a not-for-profit photography institute and book publisher. After retiring from FPG, Jessica co-produced a film documentary about the spiritual teacher, Ram Dass, entitled Fierce Grace. Currently she serves on the board of the Tibet Fund, an organization founded under the auspices of His Holiness the Dalai Lama to provide humanitarian aid to the Tibetan community in exile. |
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John Fullerton |
John Fullerton is the Founder and President of the Capital Institute. He is also the Founder of Level 3 Capital Advisors, LLC, an investment firm focused on high impact sustainable private investments. Previously, he was seed investor and CEO of Alerian Capital Management, an investment firm focused on energy infrastructure that grew to $250mm in assets under under his leadership, and before that, a Managing Director of JPMorgan. During an 18-year career at JPMorgan, John managed multiple capital markets and derivatives businesses around the globe, and finally ran the venture investment activity of LabMorgan as Chief Investment Officer. He was JPMorgan’s representative on the Long Term Capital Oversight Committee in 1997-98. John is currently a director of Investors Circle, New Day Farms, Inc., and an Advisor to Natural Systems Utilities. He is a participant/author of the UNEP Green Economy Report. John earned a BA in Economics at the University of Michigan, and an MBA at the Stern School of New York University’s in the Executive MBA Program. Read John Fullerton's essay "The Relevance of E. F. Schumacher in the 21st Century." |
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Neva Goodwin |
Dr. Neva Goodwin is Co-Director of the Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University. She is the lead author of two introductory college-level textbooks: Microeconomics in Context and Macroeconomics in Context, published by M.E. Sharpe. These are the starting points for her effort to develop an economic theory – "contextual economics" – that will have more relevance to real world concerns than does the dominant economic paradigm. The Micro text is available in Italian, Russian and Vietnamese. Goodwin is also director of a project that has developed a "Social Science Library: Frontier Thinking in Sustainable Development and Human Well-Being." Containing a bibliography of 9,000 titles, including full text PDFs of about a third of these, this will be sent on USB drives or CDs to all university libraries in 137 developing countries. As a member of the board of Ceres, and in other activities outside of her academic work, Goodwin is involved with efforts to motivate business to recognize social and ecological health as significant, long-term corporate goals. Essays by Neva Goodwin: "A New Economics for the Twenty-First Century," October 2010. Lectures by Neva Goodwin: What Can We Hope for the World in 2075?, November 2010. Collected other articles click here. Presentation on reforming economics education at June 5th founding meeting for the New Economics Institute. |
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Hildegarde Hannum |
After teaching German language and literature at Hayward State University, UC Berkeley, and Connecticut College, Hildegarde turned to a career as free-lance translator with her husband. Their translations from German to English include the work of philosopher Hans Jonas and psychoanalyst Alice Miller. A board member since 1982, she edits the Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures, turning the spoken word into essays that are published in pamphlet form and are available on the internet. She also edited People, Land, and Community: Collected E. F. Schumacher Society Lectures (Yale University Press, 1997). |
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Eric Harris-Braun |
Eric Harris-Braun designs and builds software infrastructure for the new economy. He is a co-founder of the MetaCurrency project, which is creating a platform for communities of all scales to design and deploy their own currencies. He works closely with The Collective Intelligence Research Institute, a research and development group dedicated to understanding and developing new forms of collective intelligence, where he is the lead developer of the Flowplace. Eric is the co-founder of Glass Bead Software, a provider of peer-to-peer networking applications, and of Harris-Braun Enterprises, a free-lance software development shop, which has created, among other things, complex data-collection web-sites for the health-care industry, an Android application for catch-monitoring for the fishing industry, and which built and operates the Online Writing Workshop. In 1994, he published the Internet Directory, with Fawcett Columbine which sold over 100,000 copies, and which went on to a second edition in 1996 before being made obsolete by Google. Eric received a B.S. in Computer Science from Yale University. Currently he lives in rural New York where he is part of a Quaker Intentional community, plays with his two boys, tends a vineyard and lives in a straw-bale house.
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Dan Levinson |
Daniel Levinson founded Main Street Resources after ten years with Holding Capital Group, a highly successful niche private equity firm and an investor in Main Street Resources. Dan received his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and a joint ScB with Honors in Applied Mathematics and Economics from Brown University. He spent time in the Corporate Finance department of Morgan Stanley after graduating from Brown. Dan's interest lies in the power of local action to inform and initiate systemic change - and his work in this area is aimed at finding ways to formulate solutions and encourage others. Dan has three children and a dog. |
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Richard Norgaard |
Richard B. Norgaard is Professor of Energy and Resources at the University of California at Berkeley. Among the founders of the field of ecological economics, his recent research addresses how environmental problems challenge scientific understanding and the policy process, how ecologists and economists understand systems differently, and how globalization affects environmental governance. He has field experience in the Brazilian Amazon, Alaska, and Vietnam with minor forays in other parts of the globe. He is the author of one book, co-author or editor of three additional books, and has over 100 other publications spanning the fields of environment and development, tropical forestry and agriculture, environmental epistemology, energy economics, and ecological economics. He is also among the 1,000 economists in the world most cited by other economists and was one of ten American economists interviewed in The Changing Face of Economics: Conversations with Cutting Edge Economists in 2004. Dr. Norgaard has served on numerous committees of the National Academy of Sciences and the former office of Technology Assessment and was a member of the U.S. Scientific Committee on Problems of the Environment. He served as President of the International Society for Ecological Economics (1998-2001). He has been a visiting scholar at the World Bank and served on the Science Advisory Board of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Read Richard Norgaard's essay on Sustainable Development Futures. |
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David Orr |
David Orr is a Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies and Politics at Oberlin College and a James Marsh professor at the University of Vermont. He is a well known environmentalist and is active in many areas of environmental studies, including environmental education and environmental design. In 1996, he organized the construction of one of the greenest buildings in North America, at Oberlin College. He has been awarded a Bioneers Award in 2002, a National Conservation Achievement Award by the National Wildlife Foundation in 1993, and a Lyndhurst Prize in 1992 for his work in Environmental Education (1995). |
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Will Raap |
Will Raap is founder and chairman of Gardener's Supply, an employee-owned family of companies that has won several national & regional awards for its innovative gardening products & services, as well as for its socially responsible business practices. Currently, Will's passion and energy is focused on four new environmental restoration initiatives; The Earth Partners, Restoring Our Watershed, El Centro Verde, an agroforestry training and education center in Costa Rica and Carbon Harvest Energy, a business developing integrated landfill methane to electricity to aquaponics and algae projects. Will is also the founder and past Chairman of the Board for the Intervale Center. Read Will Raap's E. F. Schumacher Lecture, his recent article for VNRC: The "New Economy" Can Strengthen Vermont's Working Landscape, his TED talk on mitigating climate change, and his June 5th, 2010 talk on using Vermont as a model for rebuilding our economies (given at the founding meeting of the New Economics Institute). |
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Gus Speth |
Gus Speth is a Professor of Law at the Vermont Law School in South Royalton, Vermont and Distinguished Senior Fellow at Demos in New York City. He was Professor in the Practice of Environmental Policy at Yale where he served as Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies from 1999 to 2009. From 1993 to 1999, Dean Speth was Administrator of the United Nations Development Programme and chair of the UN Development Group. Prior to his service at the UN, he was founder and president of the World Resources Institute; professor of law at Georgetown University; chairman of the U.S. Council on Environmental Quality; and senior attorney and cofounder, Natural Resources Defense Council. Throughout his career, Dean Speth has provided leadership and entrepreneurial initiatives to many task forces and committees whose roles have been to combat environmental degradation, including the President’s Task Force on Global Resources and Environment; the Western Hemisphere Dialogue on Environment and Development; and the National Commission on the Environment. Among his awards are the National Wildlife Federation’s Resources Defense Award, the Natural Resources Council of America’s Barbara Swain Award of Honor, a 1997 Special Recognition Award from the Society for International Development, Lifetime Achievement Awards from the Environmental Law Institute and the League of Conservation Voters, and the Blue Planet Prize. He holds honorary degrees from Clark University, the College of the Atlantic, the Vermont Law School, Middlebury College, and the University of South Carolina. Publications include The Bridge at the Edge of the World: Capitalism, the Environment, and Crossing from Crisis to Sustainability (2008),Global Environmental Governance (2006), Red Sky at Morning: America and the Crisis of the Global Environment (2004), Worlds Apart: Globalization and the Environment (2003); and articles in Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, The Nation, The Harvard Business Review, and other journals and books. Professor Speth currently serves on the boards of the New Economics Institute, New Economy Network, Natural Resources Defense Council, World Resources Institute, Rockefeller Brothers Fund, 1Sky, and the Institute for Sustainable Communities. |
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Peter Victor |
Peter Victor is a Professor in Environmental Studies at York University. He is a member of the Advisory Council of the Royal Canadian Institute for the Advancement of Science, Canada’s oldest science organization having served as its President from 2000 to 2004. He was the founding President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics and is a member of many boards and committees including the Ontario Government’s Advisory Committee on Transboundary Science, the Advisory Panel of TruCost, the Board of the David Suzuki Foundation and the Advisory Committee on the National Accounts for Statistics Canada. His current research is an inquiry into managing without growth, using LOWGROW, a systems model of the Canadian economy for exploring the interplay of growth, employment, poverty and the environment. His book Managing Without Growth: Smaller by Design, Not Disaster was published in 2008 by Edward Elgar Publishing. In 2011, he was selected as one of two winners of the prestigious Molson Prize for "continuing to find new ways to manage economic growth that are easier on the planet and population." Read Peter Victor's essay "Bigger isn't Better" Read the Article Prosperity Without Growh is Possible Watch Managing Without Growth; A System Change Lecture for the Council of Canadians |
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Stewart Wallis |
Stewart Wallis graduated in Natural Sciences from Cambridge University. His career began in marketing and sales with Rio Tinto Zinc followed by a Masters Degree in Business and Economics at London Business School. He spent seven years with the World Bank in Washington DC working on industrial and financial development in East Asia. He then worked for Robinson Packaging in Derbyshire for nine years, the last five as Managing Director, leading a successful business turnaround. He joined Oxfam in 1992 as International Director with responsibility, latterly, for 2500 staff in 70 countries and for all Oxfam’s policy, research, development and emergency work worldwide. He was awarded the OBE for services to Oxfam in 2002. Stewart joined nef (the new economics foundation) as Executive Director on 1 November 2003. His interests include: global governance, functioning of markets, links between development and environmental agendas, the future of capitalism and the moral economy. Read Stewart Wallis' Five Principles for the New Economy by 2020 |
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Timothy Wirth |
Timothy Wirth is the President of the United Nations Foundation and the Better World Fund, and a former Congressman and Senator from the state of Colorado. As President of the UN Foundation (UNF) since its inception in 1998, Wirth has organized and led the formulation of the Foundation’s mission and program priorities, which include the environment, women and population, children’s health, and peace, security and human rights. To address the major problems facing the UN and the world community, Wirth has drawn together diverse private and public sector collaborators and UN agencies, including: Rotary International, the Gates Foundation, the World Bank, Nike, Expedia, the National Basketball Association, members of the US congress, the UN leadership, and The Club of Madrid. |