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Chris Giles became economics editor for the Financial Times in October 2004, having previously served as a leader writer. His reporting beat covers global and UK economic affairs and he writes a UK economics column fortnightly.

Before joining the FT as economics editor, he was an economics reporter for the BBC, worked for Ofcom, the telecommunications regulator and started his career with seven years as an economist for the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Chris loves numbers.

David Harold Chester was born in London in 1937.
He was an engineering apprentice with a famous British aircraft company. Simultaneously, between 1953-1957 he studied Aeronautics Engineering and graduated with a Diploma of Northampton Engineering College, Islington (now called “The City University”). Between 1958-1959 he studied and obtained a Diploma of “The College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, UK (also renamed as a Management College), which was converted to an MSc in 1972.
He also studied economics at the Georgist School of Economics. London, and by self-study.
During a long carrier in engineering in AeroSpace, he published 14 technical papers in international journals on related technical subjects.
Retired 2008, currently writer and author of a recent book:
“Consequential Macroeconomics—Rationalizing About How our Social System Works”, 2015,
and 2 additional related working-papers (in open literature form) about the model being used in this book:
SSRN 2600103 “A Mechanical Model for Teaching Macroeconomics”, 2015 and
SSRN 2865571 “Einstein’s Criterion Applied to Logical Macroeconomics Modeling” in 2017.

Her most recent book is Hopes Dashed: The Economics of Gender Inequality, BWB Texts, 2017 and she lectured in economics, including feminist economics at Victoria University of Wellington. She is a long term member of the International Association for Feminist Economics, and has served on its Board.

I am a Master graduate from Turin, where two years ago I co-founded the local group of Rethinking Economics, an international network of people invested in the reformation of the economics education in a more pluralistic way.

Ian Harwood has worked as a practising macro-economist in the City of London since the late 1970s. He was Chief Economist of SG Warburg (1986-94) and, subsequently, Dresdner Kleinwort (1994-2008). His work was highly regarded by investors worldwide, and Ian took first place in Global Economics in the annual Extel survey each year from 1997 to 2007.

More recently, Ian has devoted his time to serving as an adviser to a wide-ranging clutch of financial, charitable and higher educational institutions. He is currently economic consultant to Redburn and investment adviser to MS-Amlin, the BAE and Mineworkers pension schemes and Saranac Partners. He is also a Trustee of the UBS Pension scheme and the Investment Member of the Advisory Board of Greenwich Hospital, the Royal Navy charity.

He contributes to the governance of a number of universities and was a Visiting Professor at Greenwich University from 2010 to 2013.

Clem Henricson was born in 1950 in the small North Swedish garrison town of Sollefteå. Her father was an officer in the Swedish army, while her mother spread the word of Anglicised culture across post war Europe on behalf of the British Council. They met, married and lived in this remote Chekhovian spot with dark long winters and brief brilliant summers. The marriage was short lived with much toing and froing between Sweden and England in a tussle of emotions. For the daughter it was the start of an itinerant life across the choppy, exhilarating, sea sick laden waves of the North Sea – straddling families, hostilities and ways of living; the North Sea became one of the major influences of her life. Divorce and the mother’s swift remarriage followed, and at the age of eight the daughter began life in a rural haven with a lake and boat on a Herefordshire country estate – with long summer visits to another world of wooden huts by the Swedish sea. She travelled blissfully alone and free between the ports of Tilbury and Gothenburg on the old creaky Swedish Lloyd ships. Life was idyllic with a melancholic thread. Her schooling from eight to 18 was at Monmouth School for Girls – a structured establishment, and yet in her case tolerant of contrariness and radicalism.

At eighteen she left Herefordshire for London University to read history where the lights and hitherto denied access to men dazzled. She married a fellow student Bill Bell, an academic and advocate of children’s rights, and they had twin sons Olaf and Torsten, one of whom works with the Foreign Office and the other with an economics charity. She has half siblings in Sweden and the UK – a complicated domestic scene with parental passions enacted in high drama.
After studying history at University College London, Clem Henricson trained as a lawyer, undertook legal research and engaged in radical politics and the promotion of human rights. She headed a police committee to counter human rights’ violations and enhance accountability, establishing a range of innovative mechanisms including spot checks by lay visitors to police stations, mediations services and police community consultative bodies.

Clem Henricson turned to social policy in an era of Conservative government when the strongest received argument for preserving welfare provision was its function in preventing crime. She pursued preventative policies advising think tanks, government departments, local authorities and the Labour government in waiting. She subsequently developed strategic planning with New Labour between 2000 and 2010 as Director of Research and Policy at its brain child the National Family and Parenting Institute.Undertaking studies across government departments, she led a multidisciplinary academic team of developmental and social psychologists, and cultural and social policy analysts, producing a model for the future of public policy as it affects families.

Clem Henricson has served on international government and academic advisory committees, including most recently the European Union Advisory Group on Family Research and Policy – the Family Platform and the Council of Europe Committee on Family Policy as an expert adviser. She has worked jointly with the Treasury, the Department of Health, the Home Office , Department for Education, the Social Care Institute of Excellence, the Economic and Social Research Council, the Esmee Fairbairn, Gulbenkian and Joseph Rowntree foundations and the universities of Cambridge, East Anglia, Edinburgh, Leeds, Leicester, London, Manchester, ‘Open’, Oxford and Stirling. She is a member of the Oxford Centre on Parenting and Children, Honorary Senior Fellow at the University of East Anglia and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. As a social policy analyst she has published and broadcast widely on the relationship between the individual and the state.

I started my journey towards these patterns back in South Africa.

I remember the hopelessness I felt during the final years of apartheid South Africa. I saw only futures of revolution and destruction. There was very little reason to hope for any kind of reconciliation, little reason to hope for any social, economic or environmental health afterwards.

South Africa, the Rainbow Nation, is still far from perfect. But compared to the violence it could have had �

Looking back I can see that South Africa went through a very narrow gap in the dark mountains of revolution. A gap that was invisible because we was not close enough to the mountains to see it. Invisible, because I lacked the wisdom, the �tools� to see it from the distance.

Fortunately there were key figures that had that wisdom. Were able to use many more of these patterns than I could. They continued acting from hope regardless of how they felt. And so did what was needed to keep going until we were close enough to see the gap.

Maybe even that hope created the gap in the last minute.

During my career as an entrepreneur, as a manager in Procter and Gamble (Belgium and China) and as a research physicist in universities, I have learnt time after time that changing where I stand, and changing how I see, opens up new choices.

And opens up new power to act on those choices.

Today, I look at the challenges I face, you face, and that we all face. Which ones are at the top of your mind?

I look at these challenges, and stay hopeful. Because I know from experience that there is a place to stand, and a way to look at our options, that leads to each and all of us being our best selves.

Which is what the world needs now.

Professional economist and media commentator, specialising on the labour market, employment trends, HRM and related public policy issues

Matheus Grasselli is a Professor of Mathematics and McMaster University and the Director of the Centre for Financial Industries at the Fields Institute for Research in Mathematical Sciences in Toronto. He has a PhD from King’s College London and has published research papers on information geometry, statistical physics, and numerous aspects of quantitative finance, including interest rate theory, optimal portfolio, real options, executive compensation, and macroeconomics. He is also the author of an undergraduate textbook on numerical methods. He is a regular speaker in both academic and industrial conference around the world and has consulted for CIBC, Petrobras, EDF, and Bovespa. A member of the editorial board of the Journal of Banking and Finance, the International Journal of Theoretical and Applied Finance, and the Journal of Dynamics and Games, he is also the founding managing editor of the book series Springer Briefs on Quantitative Finance.

I was born in 1950. The next couple of decades flowed by effortlessly at Eton, Magdalen College, Oxford, and dossing around planting trees and farming in New Zealand and Australia.

I first got involved with environmental issues in 1974, at the same time as I became a teacher in a West London comprehensive, which I absolutely loved. Ten years later, I left teaching to become Director of Friends of the Earth where I stayed until 1991, just prior to the Earth Summit in Rio de Janeiro in 1992 – which for me, was a life-changing experience.

In 1996, we set up Forum for the Future, which remains my ‘home base’ in terms of all the different things I do today. I was Chair of the UK Sustainable Development Commission between 2000 and 2009 and I became Chancellor of Keele University in 2012.

I got married in 1986, and we have two daughters, Eleanor and Rebecca.

That’s about it – in a nutshell! Still hard at it 40 years on.

Joe is co-Founder and Trustee of Radix – the think tank for the radical centre where he has authored papers on corporate governance, multiple aspects of Brexit and monetary policy. His primary interest is in the relationship between contemporary culture, politics and business.

An entrepreneur, investor, leadership advisor and commentator, he is an investor and Non-Executive Director in entrepreneurial ventures and advises senior business and institutional leaders on leadership in contemporary culture.

He writes on business and politics for The Huffington Post (UK), Het Financieele Dagblad (Netherlands), Die Achse Des Guten (Germany), The Guardian (UK), The Times of Malta (Malta) and The Stanford Review of Social Innovation (USA). He is co-author with David Boyle of A Radical Politics for Business and The Death of Liberal Democracy?.

He is a member of the Dean�s Advisory Board at the College of Arts, Sciences and Education at Florida International University, has acted as Special Advisor to the Director General at the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and serves on the board of non-profit organisations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

Gabriela Ramos is the OECD Chief of Staff and Sherpa to the G20. Besides supporting the Strategic Agenda of the Secretary General, she is responsible for the contributions of the Organisation to the global agenda, including the G20 and the G7. She leads the Inclusive Growth Initiative and the New Approaches to Economic Challenges and also oversees the work on Education, Employment and Social Affairs (including gender).

Previously, she served as Head of the OECD Office in Mexico and Latin America, co-ordinating several reports on Mexico to advance the health and education reform. She developed the OECD’s Mexico Forum and edited and launched the “Getting it Right” flagship publication series.

Prior to joining the OECD, Ms Ramos held several positions in the Mexican Government, including Director of Economic Affairs (and OECD issues) in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Technical Secretary at the Office of the Minister for the Budget. She has also held several positions as Professor of International Economy at the Universidad Iberoamericana and at the Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México. Ms Ramos holds an MA in Public Policy from Harvard University, and was a Fulbright and Ford MacArthur fellow. She was decorated with the Ordre du Merit by the President of France, François Hollande, in 2013.

Juergen Maier was appointed Chief Executive on 1 July 2014. He has been a member of the Siemens UK Executive Board since 2008, and held senior roles within Siemens in the UK and Germany including Managing Director of Industrial activities for the UK and Manufacturing Director of the award-winning Drives factory in Congleton.

Juergen joined Siemens in 1986 with a BSc in production engineering from Nottingham Trent University, on a Siemens-sponsored graduate programme. He was made an honorary professor of Engineering at the University of Manchester in March 2014.

Juergen is a passionate advocate of the UK rebalancing its economy and has supported many UK-wide initiatives championing manufacturing, improved infrastructure and engineering skills. He has recently been asked by the Government department BEIS to lead a new review on Industrial Digitilisation for UK Manufacturing. Juergen also supports the modern re-industrialisation of the Northern Powerhouse and in that capacity is Chairman of the North West Business Leadership team and a board member of Greater Manchester LEP as well as the Northern Powerhouse Partnership.

Dr Denis worked for the Economist Intelligence Unit in the 1980s and joined City University Business School in 1990 as a researcher in financial development, moving to the Economics Department in 1991.

He gained his PhD in 2002 with a thesis on “Collective and Individual Rationality: Episodes in the History of Economic Thought”. His research interests are in the history and philosophy of economics, and he has published on Adam Smith, Keynes, Hayek, Malthus, the methodology of the Austrian School of Economics, the concept of equilibrium and the appeal to microfoundations in neoclassical economics, and the economic calculation debate.

In 2009 he guest edited a special issue of the International Review of Economics Education on pluralism in the teaching of economics. In 2016 he edited a symposium on Microfoundations in modern macroeconomics, published in the Review of Political Economy. In 2017 he organised a history of economic thought session at the RES conference. Also in 2017, and with Dr Claudia Jefferies, he organised the 49th annual conference of The History of Economic Thought Society (THETS) at City, University of London. In January 2017 Dr Denis was elected to a Fellowship of the Royal Society of Arts.

My research interests include finance, macroeconomics, money and banking, and income distribution.

I have extensive broadcast media experience and have appeared on BBC TV and Radio, ITV, Sky News, LBC, Al Jazeera and others. For media enquiries please contact Rosie Baines on _07875 966 955

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Tue 08 Sep 15 at BBA, London

In Making Sense of Markets, Kevin Gardiner argues that received economic wisdom is far too pessimistic, and that investment opportunities have been missed as a result. He suggests that the great panic of 2008 had its roots in finance and liquidity, not in a flawed global economy, and shows why some fears – debt, demography, Western decadence for example – have been overdone.

The book also suggests how best to capitalise on this. But, in contrast to modern portfolio theory’s emphasis on the “optimal” portfolio, it argues that practical investing is about “satisficing”. It emphasises context; questions economic knowledge; notes insights from behavioural finance; and stresses that investors are not necessarily paid for taking risk – a “postmodern portfolio theory”, perhaps.

Conclusion? Our children will likely be better off than we are; long-term investing is still worthwhile; and portfolios should be constructed simply and inexpensively.

Speakers
Kevin Gardiner
Global Investment Strategist, Rothschild Wealth Management

Kevin Gardiner is Global Investment Strategist at Rothschild Wealth Management. He was formerly CIO (Europe) at Barclays Wealth Management, and previously worked at several investment banks and the Bank of England.

In 1994, at Morgan Stanley, Kevin wrote the Celtic Tiger report on the Irish economy.

He is a Governor at UWC Atlantic College; a member of the Welsh Assembly Government’s Advisory Panel on Finance and Professional Services; and a retained speaker at the CFA, and a member of its 2010 UK working party on ethics. He was educated at Glan Ely Comprehensive (Cardiff), UWC Atlantic College (Llantwit Major), LSE (BSc Econ, first class honours and university prizes) and Cambridge (MPhil Econ).

Matthew Taylor has been Chief Executive of the RSA since November 2006. During this time the Society has substantially increased its output of research and innovation, has provided new routes to support charitable initiatives of its 28,000 Fellows – including crowd funding – and has developed a global profile as a platform for ideas. In October 2016 Matthew was appointed by the Prime Minister to lead an independent review into modern employment; the review’s findings were published in July 2017.

Prior to this appointment, Matthew was Chief Adviser on Political Strategy to the Prime Minister. Previous roles include Labour Party Director of Policy and Deputy General Secretary and Chief Executive of the ippr the UK’s leading left of centre think tank.

Matthew is a regular media performer having appeared several times on the Today Programme, The Daily Politics and Newsnight. He had written and presented several Radio Four documentaries and is a panellist on the programme Moral Maze. He writes a regular column for the Local Government Chronicle.

Caroline was elected as Member of Parliament for Brighton Pavilion in 2010. She served as leader of the Green Party of England and Wales from 2008 to 2012. And from 1999-2010 she served as one of the Party’s first MEPs and represented the South East region until becoming the UK’s first Green MP.

Caroline is a Co-Chair of the All Party Parliamentary Group on Fuel Poverty and Energy Efficiency, Vice Chair of the Public and Commercial Services, Sustainable Housing, CND and Animal Welfare All Party Parliamentary Groups. She is also a member of various other all-party groups, including on HIV and Aids, 6th Form Colleges, Children and International Corporate Responsibility.

She sits on Parliament’s influential Environmental Audit Committee and has also sat on temporary committees set up to scrutinise Government legislation.

Carmine Gorga is a former Fulbright scholar and the recipient of a Council of Europe Scholarship for his dissertation on “The Political Thought of Louis D. Brandeis.” With a book titled The Economic Process and a series of papers, Dr. Gorga has transformed the linear world of economics into a relational discipline in which everything is related to everything else, This characteristic of Concordian economics has been recognized by JEL in December 2017 (p. 1642). He was assisted for 27 years by Professor Franco Modigliani, a Nobel laureate in economics at MIT. For a full understanding of Concordian economics, Gorga has gradually realized that we need to go beyond Individualism and Collectivism, toward Somism (men and women in the social context)—see www.somistinstitute.org—and then we need to pass from Rationalism to Relationalism: see www.relationalism.org. See also Wikipedia and Google Scholar.

Paul is CEO and co-founder of startups GiveCredit (previously Lean on a Friend) and Social Kinetic Technologies. GiveCredit uses personal networks and trust as an alternative to data driven decisioning for consumer credit. The approach has broad application but is currently focused on the UK payday market as it is the most dysfunctional market area in need of disruption. The datafication of finance and data driven credit decisioning fails less affluent consumers as their lack of wealth dominates results and deems them �untrustworthy�. SKT uses the same ideas and technology for non-UK regulated activities and is currently focused on a health insurance project in East Africa.

Previously, Paul was a fund manager and founding partner of Goodhart, a global alternative investment firm with a non-consensus investment style. He identified the credit crisis in advance and made money for clients during the event. The issues around the credit crisis spurred a general interest in credit, money and credit-money transactions which ultimately lead to GiveCredit/SKT. General views relevant to the UK payday market have been published here. Paul began his career in finance as an actuarial trainee.

Professor of Economics Geoffrey Schneider believes that the economic success — or failure — of any given nation lies, at least partly, in the educational, technological, governmental and cultural institutions available for support.

Schneider is especially interested in understanding how institutions can enable — or disable development in Africa. “Every place has a particular set of institutional structures,” he says. “In the African context, one of the interesting questions is, given various models for development and given the unique cultures and institutions of African countries, what actually might work? Given that so many things have been tried in Africa and not worked, that’s a question that has always fascinated me.”

Schneider also is director of the Learning Center at Bucknell, where he helps new faculty members begin their Bucknell careers. “One of the first things we do with new faculty,” he says, “is to acquaint them with some of the classic active learning techniques that are used at Bucknell — how to get students into group discussions that are rich, how to punctuate your lectures with thought-provoking questions, how to do things that will keep your students actively engaged in the course material.”

In his own classes, students don’t just attend discussions, they design and lead them. Schneider has learned from experience that such student-directed learning allows students to explore fully the areas that most interest them, while still covering all the intended material. For example, in his capstone course “South Africa: Apartheid and After,” biology students have investigated the country’s biodiversity, while sociology majors delved deeper into the process of undoing an oppressive system like apartheid.

Such student engagement, he is sure, is what makes some classes rich. “It really has the effect of changing the dynamic,” says Schneider, “so that they are all as a group much less passive and much more active in the conversation.”

Dr Kevin Albertson is an eclectic economist with a background in statistics and economics, but now he has escaped (to some extent) from the numerical world of Econometrics into the applied worlds of: Behavioural Economics; Economics and Crime � he is co-author of the critically acclaimed text book �Crime and Economics: An Introduction� �; and the analysis of government policy. He leads the economic components of many PERU projects including, currently, an economic forecasting exercise as part of the InnoSI project.

Kevin�s research interests range from business and social forecasting, through: the frontiers of computing; who is really to blame for the �-zone crisis; social innovation; crime; and the application of classical and behavioural economics to socio-political issues. He is a co-founder and author on the departmental blog �Eomics� (Economics without the con) where has fulminated at short-length on current social challenges.

Nicolette is a policy, business strategy and sustainable development professional delivering lasting stakeholder value in diverse governmental, business, financial services and not-for-profit environments. Her achievements range from catalysing the declaration and delivery of a local authority’s climate emergency pledge to leading an influential study of the potential for a European currency. Having spent the first part of her 25 year career discovering the inadequacy of her neoclassical dominated economics education, and the middle part searching for better ways of addressing the complexity, unpredictability and connectedness of 21st century social, environmental and economic challenges, Nicolette has enthused and supported Promoting Economic Pluralism from its inception.

Expertise: Economic Strategy; Equity and Fairness; Institutional and Cultural Change;

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Wolfram, born in 1950, has been Professor of Economics at University of Bremen, Germany, since 1995. He studied economics at the University of Cologne. After having received his PhD (1977) and �venia legendi� (�Habilitation�, 1985) at the University of Bielefeld, he worked as a head of regional economic development at city level (1986-1990) and as a Director of the Planning Division of the Ministry of Economic Affairs of the State of Bremen, and the State Government�s economic research institute (1990-1995).

After his appointment to professor in 1995, he continued working as a state advisor for industrial restructuration, with a focus on the defence industries in the state of Bremen until 2001. He was president of the European Association for Evolutionary Political Economy (EAEPE), 2012-2016.

He has affiliations at the University of Missouri�Kansas City and Jilin University, Changchun, China, and taught and researched at several universities in Europe, the USA, and Australia. He is on the editorial boards of a number of academic journals, has been on a number committees of academic associations in the USA and Europe, edited many books and book series, published many articles in numerous journals on local and regional development, clusters and networks, and related complexity issues, and is managing editor of the US-based Forum for Social Economics.

Saker is Chief Executive of Hermes, chair of its Executive Committee and an Executive Board Director. Saker was appointed CEO in May 2012, having been acting CEO since November 2011. Saker joined the firm in June 2009 as Head of Investment and Executive Board Director. He is responsible for leading the firm’s growth strategy and ensuring that Hermes continues to deliver excellent long-term investment performance, responsibly. Under his leadership, Hermes has achieved outstanding year-on-year growth in sales, revenues and profitability, while contributing widely to the debate about how to improve the contribution of financial services to society. Critically, long-term investment performance has remained at outstanding levels during his tenure.

Prior to joining Hermes, Saker was Global Head of Equities at Fortis Investments USA, having initially been appointed to the firm as CIO Global Equities in 2005. Before this he was CIO of Global Equities and Head of Marketing for SGAM UK. This role followed SGAM’s acquisition of Trust Company of the West (TCW), where Saker was Managing Director, running global and international strategies, as well as managing TCW’s London office. He started his career at Mercury Asset Management in 1987.

Saker is a regular public speaker, writer and commentator, appearing at leading industry conferences, on television and radio. He is the founder of the 300 Club, which he chaired from its inception in 2011 until early 2014. The 300 Club is a group of leading investment professionals who seek to challenge investment orthodoxy and improve the contribution of financial services to society. Saker is a member of the CFA Institute’s Future of Finance Advisory Council, a member of the IIRC Council, and was a public member of Network Rail for three years until November 2014. He sits on the Banking Standards Board, which aims to restore trust in the UK banking industry, as a practitioner member. Saker also sits on the advisory board of Mosaic, the charity that seeks to improve the chances of young people and to bring communities together; the UK National Advisory Board on Impact Investing; and the steering committee for the United Nations Environment Programme Finance Initiative.

In 2015, Saker was named CEO of the Year at the Global Investor Investment Excellence Awards. Saker has a BA and PhD in Medieval History from King’s College, University of London.

Her most recent book is Hopes Dashed: The Economics of Gender Inequality, BWB Texts, 2017 and she lectured in economics, including feminist economics at Victoria University of Wellington. She is a long term member of the International Association for Feminist Economics, and has served on its Board.

Over the past couple of years I have found myself looking into the role technology and creativity can play in the classroom. I have conducted lesson studies into iPads and the use of various apps on engagement and pupil performance. I have also started looking at the role of simulations in class to teach various concepts. I am starting my Masters in Education at the University of Exeter this September, where I will be focused on Technology, Creativity and Thinking.

Terence James O’Neill, Baron O’Neill of Gatley, former chairman of Goldman Sachs Asset Management and former Conservative government minister, is a British economist best known for coining BRIC, the acronym that stands for Brazil, Russia, India, and China—the four rapidly developing countries that have come to symbolise the shift in global economic power away from the developed G7 economies. As of January 2014, he is an Honorary Professor of Economics at the University of Manchester. He was appointed Commercial Secretary to the Treasury in the Second Cameron Ministry, a position he held until his resignation on 23 September 2016. Since 2008, he has written monthly columns for international media organization Project Syndicate.

Juergen Maier was appointed Chief Executive on 1 July 2014. He has been a member of the Siemens UK Executive Board since 2008, and held senior roles within Siemens in the UK and Germany including Managing Director of Industrial activities for the UK and Manufacturing Director of the award-winning Drives factory in Congleton.

Juergen joined Siemens in 1986 with a BSc in production engineering from Nottingham Trent University, on a Siemens-sponsored graduate programme. He was made an honorary professor of Engineering at the University of Manchester in March 2014.

Juergen is a passionate advocate of the UK rebalancing its economy and has supported many UK-wide initiatives championing manufacturing, improved infrastructure and engineering skills. He has recently been asked by the Government department BEIS to lead a new review on Industrial Digitilisation for UK Manufacturing. Juergen also supports the modern re-industrialisation of the Northern Powerhouse and in that capacity is Chairman of the North West Business Leadership team and a board member of Greater Manchester LEP as well as the Northern Powerhouse Partnership.

Frances has been an active trade unionist and campaigner all her working life. She has been employed in a range of jobs from shop work to the voluntary sector.

Before the TUC, Frances worked for the Transport and General Workers Union where she worked on successful campaigns to stop the abolition of the Agricultural Wages Board and for the introduction of a national minimum wage, equal pay for women, and on a range of industrial wage claims.

In 1994, Frances was appointed as TUC Campaigns Officer and ran campaigns for equal rights for part-timers and against low pay. In 1997, she was appointed to head up the New Unionism campaign and launched the TUC’s Organising Academy.

As well as driving new recruitment campaigns in call centres, supermarkets and new media, the Academy set out to attract a generation of new ‘young guns’ into the trade union movement and shift the ‘male, pale and stale’ stereotype to a profile that better fits a six million plus membership that is now 50:50 men and women.

Frances went on to head up the TUC’s organisation department in 1999 and reorganised local bargaining for skills projects into the unified national brand of unionlearn, which has grown to help a quarter of a million workers into learning every year – a track record of success that continues to attract the support of hundreds of employers and public funding from the government.

As Deputy General Secretary since 2003, Frances led on winning the 2012 Principles of Co-operation Agreement with the Olympic Authorities, guaranteeing on-site minimum standards for local jobs, health and safety and the London living wage. Frances has also led on industrial policy arguing the case for a strategic approach to rebalancing the economy in the wake of the financial crash.

In January 2013, Frances became the General Secretary of the TUC, the first woman ever to hold this post. Fair pay remains a core ambition – she was on the Resolution Foundation’s Commission on Living Standards, and has been a member of the Low Pay and the High Pay Commissions. Frances is a strong believer in protecting the public service ethos, opposes privatisation and leads the TUC campaign to save the NHS.

Frances was born in Oxford, has two adult children and lives in North London.

In April 2015 Sir Ian Cheshire was appointed to the role of Government Lead Non-Executive. He was appointed for a further three years in April 2018. Sir Ian is also a non-executive member of the Cabinet Office Board.

Sir Ian is the Senior Independent Director of Whitbread plc, Chairman of the Prince of Wales Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change, President of the Business Disability Forum and Chair of the advisory board of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Sir Ian retired as Group Chief Executive of Kingfisher plc in December 2014 after 7 years in the role and 17 years with the company. His other former roles include Chairman of the British Retail Consortium and Lead Non-Executive for the Department of Work and Pensions.

Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Centre for Endowment Asset Management, Cambridge Judge Business School

Stephen Nathan Kinnock is a British Labour Party politician who has been the Member of Parliament (MP) for Aberavon since the 2015 general election. His wife is the former Danish Prime Minister Helle Thorning-Schmidt and his father, Neil Kinnock, served as the (Labour) Leader of the Opposition of the United Kingdom (1983–1992) and is a former European Commissioner and Vice President of the European Commission from 1999 to 2004.

Anita McKeown (PhD, FRSA, MAAG) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, scholar and educator, interested in Creative Placemaking and Open Source Culture and Technology. She continues to work across the intersection of arts, technology and social change through STEAM education, community engagement and PhD supervision.

Martin Parker is Professor of Organization Studies at the School of Management, University of Bristol. He previously worked at Staffs, Keele, Warwick and Leicester Universities, and his latest book is ‘Shut Down the Business School’ (Pluto Press 2018).

Oliver Greenfield is Convenor of the Green Economy Coalition, which is currently housed at IIED. Convenor is a carefully considered title to reflect network leadership, inviting people from diverse institutions and networks to work together, and enabling them to influence collectively.

Oliver was head of Sustainable Business and Economics at WWF-UK, currently seconded to the Green Economy Coalition. At WWF he pioneered systemic stakeholder change programmes including One Planet Business, One Planet Finance and One Planet Economy. Before that Oliver managed change in industry and the public sector, as a corporate strategy consultant for Booz Company and as the senior strategy advisor for the BBC World Service. He has degrees in engineering and business.

I have 18 years working as an applied economist in public policy in a range of organisations. In my career I have worked on skills policy, local economic development, worklessness, state and private pensions policy, Industrial Strategy and business policy. Recently, I was part of the team that developed the new Civil Service Diversity and Inclusion Strategy, representing Christians in Government. I have a Master’s degree in Economics from Leeds University and I sit on their Economics Curriculum Board. I have a keen interest in a range of other disciplines such as data science, behavioural science, philosophy and psychology.

Oliver Greenfield is Convenor of the Green Economy Coalition, which is currently housed at IIED. Convenor is a carefully considered title to reflect network leadership, inviting people from diverse institutions and networks to work together, and enabling them to influence collectively.

Oliver was head of Sustainable Business and Economics at WWF-UK, currently seconded to the Green Economy Coalition. At WWF he pioneered systemic stakeholder change programmes including One Planet Business, One Planet Finance and One Planet Economy. Before that Oliver managed change in industry and the public sector, as a corporate strategy consultant for Booz Company and as the senior strategy advisor for the BBC World Service. He has degrees in engineering and business.

Starting as a clerical worker in the Civil Service and then moving in to IT management roles the ground was laid for a move in to local government and then to set up as a private, not for profit company to provide secure, online case managements systems for the care sector. CHARMS, our unique , online system, is now used across the statutory, private and charity sectors. We are now looking to Europe and the USA to see if our unique approach can help care services there. My personal approach is based on Sociocracy, or dynamic governance, and our company, Social Care Network Solutions, is striving to embed that methodology in all that we do.

Oliver Greenfield is Convenor of the Green Economy Coalition, which is currently housed at IIED. Convenor is a carefully considered title to reflect network leadership, inviting people from diverse institutions and networks to work together, and enabling them to influence collectively.

Oliver was head of Sustainable Business and Economics at WWF-UK, currently seconded to the Green Economy Coalition. At WWF he pioneered systemic stakeholder change programmes including One Planet Business, One Planet Finance and One Planet Economy. Before that Oliver managed change in industry and the public sector, as a corporate strategy consultant for Booz Company and as the senior strategy advisor for the BBC World Service. He has degrees in engineering and business.

Oliver Greenfield is Convenor of the Green Economy Coalition, which is currently housed at IIED. Convenor is a carefully considered title to reflect network leadership, inviting people from diverse institutions and networks to work together, and enabling them to influence collectively.

Oliver was head of Sustainable Business and Economics at WWF-UK, currently seconded to the Green Economy Coalition. At WWF he pioneered systemic stakeholder change programmes including One Planet Business, One Planet Finance and One Planet Economy. Before that Oliver managed change in industry and the public sector, as a corporate strategy consultant for Booz Company and as the senior strategy advisor for the BBC World Service. He has degrees in engineering and business.

Over the past couple of years I have found myself looking into the role technology and creativity can play in the classroom. I have conducted lesson studies into iPads and the use of various apps on engagement and pupil performance. I have also started looking at the role of simulations in class to teach various concepts. I am starting my Masters in Education at the University of Exeter this September, where I will be focused on Technology, Creativity and Thinking.

GLC Transport Chair 1981-86. Leader London Borough of Hounslow 1987-1991. First Vice-Chair Transport for London 2000-2008.

I’m an economist, entrepreneur and commentator on our economy, society and our democracy.

I am Founder of Lateral Economics, Chair of global aged care software provider Health Metrics and the Open Knowledge Foundation (Australia) and Visiting/Adjunct Professor at Kings College London and UTS. I am Patron of the Australian Digital Alliance.

He have advised two Cabinet Ministers, taught at ANU and sat on the Productivity Commission and worked within the Business Council of Australia.

I chaired The Australian Centre for Social Innovation (TACSI) from 2010 to 2016, the Federal Government’s Innovation Australia in 2013-14 and in 2009 chaired the Australian Federal Governments Government 2.0 Taskforce.

Rick lives in Fort Collins, Colorado, at the foothills of the Rocky Mountains of Colorado, where he has lived for three decades though he grew up in North Carolina. Pursuing an eclectic career between economics and computer programming, he holds two masters degrees, one in economics, the other in telecommunications. He moved to Colorado in 1981 for the outdoors: climbing, skiing, biking and hiking. Since the advent of fracking in the Front Range around 2010, he has become increasingly involved in political activism, and raising public awareness of how bad an environmental policy fracking is, and the urgency to take more concerted efforts to address climate change in national and local environmental policy.

Moshahida Sultana is Associate Professor of Exonomics at the Department of Accounting and Information Systems, University of Dhaka. She works of political economy of energy transition and currently doing her PhD in Central European University.

Oliver Greenfield is Convenor of the Green Economy Coalition, which is currently housed at IIED. Convenor is a carefully considered title to reflect network leadership, inviting people from diverse institutions and networks to work together, and enabling them to influence collectively.

Oliver was head of Sustainable Business and Economics at WWF-UK, currently seconded to the Green Economy Coalition. At WWF he pioneered systemic stakeholder change programmes including One Planet Business, One Planet Finance and One Planet Economy. Before that Oliver managed change in industry and the public sector, as a corporate strategy consultant for Booz Company and as the senior strategy advisor for the BBC World Service. He has degrees in engineering and business.

Anita McKeown (PhD, FRSA, MAAG) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, scholar and educator, interested in Creative Placemaking and Open Source Culture and Technology. She continues to work across the intersection of arts, technology and social change through STEAM education, community engagement and PhD supervision.

Over the past couple of years I have found myself looking into the role technology and creativity can play in the classroom. I have conducted lesson studies into iPads and the use of various apps on engagement and pupil performance. I have also started looking at the role of simulations in class to teach various concepts. I am starting my Masters in Education at the University of Exeter this September, where I will be focused on Technology, Creativity and Thinking.

Starting as a clerical worker in the Civil Service and then moving in to IT management roles the ground was laid for a move in to local government and then to set up as a private, not for profit company to provide secure, online case managements systems for the care sector. CHARMS, our unique , online system, is now used across the statutory, private and charity sectors. We are now looking to Europe and the USA to see if our unique approach can help care services there. My personal approach is based on Sociocracy, or dynamic governance, and our company, Social Care Network Solutions, is striving to embed that methodology in all that we do.

I am a Senior Research Fellow at the Italian National Institute of Statistics (Istat), Rome, Italy. In my main research fields — Institutional and Keynesian Economics, Sustainable and Equitable Development, Political Economy, also considered in their relations with psychology and psychoanalysis — I have authored six books and numerous articles in scholarly Journals.
I am a member of important economics associations and regularly participate in their Conferences and activities.

Dr. Hans G. Despain
Chair of Economics Department
Nichols College

Research interests include economics and education, labor economic, secular stagnation, political economy, history of economic thought,

Taught economics from 1970 to 2014 — till 2008 in a totally mainstream program where most of my students were business majors. Wrote SURRENDER: HOW THE CLINTON ADMINISTRATION COMPLETED THE REAGAN REVOLUTION (U Mich, 2000 — paperback edition).
Wrote PRINCIPLES OF MACROECONOMICS: Activist vs. Austerity Policies (second edition: ROUTLEDGE, 2018).

Do a monthly radio commentary on WAMC-FM (Albany, NY National Public Radio station)

Recently written a few “retrospectives” for Monthly Review and the Review of Radical Political Economics

Nick is managing director of Callund Consulting, founder and director of Climate Bonds Initiative (CBI) and Radix, the think tank of the radical centre. Nick is a visiting fellow at Anglia Ruskin University and Cass Business School. Nick recently won The President’s Award for outstanding contribution to the Actuarial Profession and the Phiatus Award for an actuary who has made the most impressive charitable efforts. Nick’s book, Finance, Society and Sustainability was recently published by Palgrave Macmillan.

Oliver Greenfield is Convenor of the Green Economy Coalition, which is currently housed at IIED. Convenor is a carefully considered title to reflect network leadership, inviting people from diverse institutions and networks to work together, and enabling them to influence collectively.

Oliver was head of Sustainable Business and Economics at WWF-UK, currently seconded to the Green Economy Coalition. At WWF he pioneered systemic stakeholder change programmes including One Planet Business, One Planet Finance and One Planet Economy. Before that Oliver managed change in industry and the public sector, as a corporate strategy consultant for Booz Company and as the senior strategy advisor for the BBC World Service. He has degrees in engineering and business.

I am Arun Khobragade, with 24 years of professional experience. Currently I am working as CEO & MD RAS Frozen Foods Pvt Ltd, an Agri business company promoted by me, prior to which, I was VP in ABN AMRO, an international finance conglomerate and was involved in their operational risk management.

I have completed my post-graduation in management from IIM Calcutta

My professional strength is managing and leading change, my varied experience provides me a holistic understanding of business that helps me in assessing the risk environment and take initiatives in creating mitigating controls.

My articles have been published in leading Periodicals & newspapers on the issue of entrepreneurship and making India Inclusive.

I am using my professional experience to influence policy making and bring about changes in the area of:
• Skill Development
• Entrepreneurship development
• Rural empowerment

Éric Tymoigne is an associate professor of economics at Lewis & Clark College who specializes in the fields of money and banking, monetary theory, and financial macroeconomics. His current research agenda includes the nature, history, and theory of money; the detection of aggregate financial fragility and its implications for central banking; the coordination of fiscal and monetary policies; and the theoretical analysis of monetary production economies.

Éric Tymoigne is an associate professor of economics at Lewis & Clark College who specializes in the fields of money and banking, monetary theory, and financial macroeconomics. His current research agenda includes the nature, history, and theory of money; the detection of aggregate financial fragility and its implications for central banking; the coordination of fiscal and monetary policies; and the theoretical analysis of monetary production economies.

Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts and Executive Director of the Hopbrook Institute, Gerald Friedman was graduated from Columbia College in 1977 and earned a Ph.D. in economics from Harvard University in 1986. In addition to his 1998 book, State-Making and Labor Movements. The United States and France, 1876-1914, he has written Reigniting the Labor Movement: Restoring means to ends in a democratic labor movement (2008) and Microeconomics: Individual Choice in Communities (4th edition 2018) and is the author of numerous articles on topics in the labor history of the United States and Europe, on the evolution of economic thought, labor economics, economic theory, the history of slavery in the Americas, and on current economic issues. He has also drafted funding plans for campaigns for single-payer health insurance in Colorado, Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Washington, and for the United States.

Born in Argentina, grew up in Mexico City and studied college and PhD in Austin, Texas. Taught in North Cyprus for 3 years, before moving to Portland, Oregon. Have worked on issues of migration (Cyprus and Oregon), neoliberal reforms and financial crises (Mexico and Argentina), democracy and neoliberalism (theory and Latin America), and rural development and sustainability (Argentina).

I obtained my PhD from Lancaster University (UK) in 1970. International Economics is my forte. I held the Chair of Analytical Economics at the University of Malaya from 1980 till 1997 and also served as the Dean of the Faculty of Economics and Administration, University of Malaya, in the 1980s and 1990s. I was the Executive Director of the Malaysian Institute of Economic Research (MIER), a leading independent think tank, during 1997-2009. I am currently with INCEIF as Professor since 2011. I sit on the Editorial Board of Asian Economic Policy Review (AEPR), an ISI-listed journal published by the Japan Center for Economic Research (JCER), and also serve as a Correspondent Editor of Asia-Pacific Economic Literature (APEL) of the Australisan National University (ANU), and an Associate Editor of Institutions and Economies from University of Malaya.

BS in Philosophy of Science from MIT, and a MA in Philosophy, MA in Economics, and a PhD in Mathematics all from Boston University. Having a Phd in math and two degrees in philosophy has given me the ability to both understand the conventional theory in its most mathematical formulation AND to see how an alternative theory could be developed using my philosophical background.

Daniel E. Saros is a Professor of Economics at Valparaiso University where he has been a member of the faculty since 2004. He graduated from Bowling Green State University in Ohio in 1999 and received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of
Notre Dame in 2004. He served as a member of the Editorial Board of the Review of Radical Political Economics (RRPE) from 2013-2016 and has published two books with Routledge. His primary research interests include Marxian economics, labor history, and alternatives to capitalism.

I received my Ph.D. from the University of Missouri – Kansas City under the supervision of James Sturgeon and Frederic Lee. I have since been teaching a variety of classes at Portland Community College in Oregon, USA and elsewhere, as well as researching in the general areas of (original) institutional economics and heterodox microeconomics.

Anita McKeown (PhD, FRSA, MAAG) is an interdisciplinary artist, curator, scholar and educator, interested in Creative Placemaking and Open Source Culture and Technology. She continues to work across the intersection of arts, technology and social change through STEAM education, community engagement and PhD supervision.

Born in Germany, I did my undergraduate studies in Business Studies and Economics at the Carl-von-Ossietzky University in Oldenburg, Germany, from 2007 to 2010. Shortly after I finished, I moved to Auckland New Zealand where I did a Masters in Economics at Auckland University of Technology, from 2011 to 2012.
Following my return to Europe I received a PhD bursary for pluralism in economics at Anglia Ruskin University in 2013. I finished my PhD in 2016 and was appointed Lecturer in Economics and International Business at Anglia Ruskin University, where I am currently working as Senior Lecturer in Economics and International Business.
My research interests are currently in social ontology, epistemology and methodology.

BA, MSc and PhD in Economics
Research interests: development and innovation.

Director of Economic Statistics at the National Institute of Statistics and Census, Argentina. 1985-1987.
Full Professor of Microeconomics. University of Buenos Aires. 1989-2007.
Director of the Economics Programme. University of Buenos Aires. 1999-2004.
Honorary Professor of Economics. University of Buenos Aires. 2007/…
Recent publications:
Modern economic crises: Argentina, United States and Europe. Springer. 2016. (With Beniamino Moro)
The European Crisis. Editor (with Beniamino Moro). World Economic Association Books. Vol. 7. 2016.
On Pluralism and Economics. International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education. Vol.9, Issue 1-2.

David Harold Chester was born in London in 1937.
He was an engineering apprentice with a famous British aircraft company. Simultaneously, between 1953-1957 he studied Aeronautics Engineering and graduated with a Diploma of Northampton Engineering College, Islington (now called “The City University”). Between 1958-1959 he studied and obtained a Diploma of “The College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, UK (also renamed as a Management College), which was converted to an MSc in 1972.
He also studied economics at the Georgist School of Economics. London, and by self-study.
During a long carrier in engineering in AeroSpace, he published 14 technical papers in international journals on related technical subjects.
Retired 2008, currently writer and author of a recent book:
“Consequential Macroeconomics—Rationalizing About How our Social System Works”, 2015,
and 2 additional related working-papers (in open literature form) about the model being used in this book:
SSRN 2600103 “A Mechanical Model for Teaching Macroeconomics”, 2015 and
SSRN 2865571 “Einstein’s Criterion Applied to Logical Macroeconomics Modeling” in 2017.

Her most recent book is Hopes Dashed: The Economics of Gender Inequality, BWB Texts, 2017 and she lectured in economics, including feminist economics at Victoria University of Wellington. She is a long term member of the International Association for Feminist Economics, and has served on its Board.

Francis lives in Somerset, where he farmed organically for 10 years. After writing Organic Farming and Growing � a Guide to Management (still in print) he joined the Soil Association in 1986, first to run Soil Association Certification, then as Standards Director. He was founding president of IFOAM EU Group (www.ifoam-eu.org) and then the COSMOS-standard AISBL (www.cosmos-standard,org). He is now a board member of IOAS (www.ioas.org). Besides organic, his other interests are bee keeping, learning the mandolin and Ki aikido (Black belt).

David Harold Chester was born in London in 1937.
He was an engineering apprentice with a famous British aircraft company. Simultaneously, between 1953-1957 he studied Aeronautics Engineering and graduated with a Diploma of Northampton Engineering College, Islington (now called “The City University”). Between 1958-1959 he studied and obtained a Diploma of “The College of Aeronautics, Cranfield, UK (also renamed as a Management College), which was converted to an MSc in 1972.
He also studied economics at the Georgist School of Economics. London, and by self-study.
During a long carrier in engineering in AeroSpace, he published 14 technical papers in international journals on related technical subjects.
Retired 2008, currently writer and author of a recent book:
“Consequential Macroeconomics—Rationalizing About How our Social System Works”, 2015,
and 2 additional related working-papers (in open literature form) about the model being used in this book:
SSRN 2600103 “A Mechanical Model for Teaching Macroeconomics”, 2015 and
SSRN 2865571 “Einstein’s Criterion Applied to Logical Macroeconomics Modeling” in 2017.

Her most recent book is Hopes Dashed: The Economics of Gender Inequality, BWB Texts, 2017 and she lectured in economics, including feminist economics at Victoria University of Wellington. She is a long term member of the International Association for Feminist Economics, and has served on its Board.

I teach and research about the ways in which we can understand and act on our individual and collective impacts on the environment. What are the ways in which lifestyles can be changed so that we don’t damage our natural environment and yet still improve wellbeing? What values do we need to bring to bear in order to live sustainably on the Earth? What are the policies and forms of governance in business, communities and public sector that can support sustainable living?

I’m a lecturer and research at the University of Surrey’s Centre for Environment and Sustainability. My main project is in the ESRc programme CUSP, led by Prof. Tim Jackson, on understanding sustainable prosperity. Before becoming a full-time academic in 2011 I spent many years in the public sector (local and central government), business and NGOs, working in a variety of roles on environmental policy and sustainable development, and also on projects concerning innovation, corporate social responsibility and planning. I’m a Fellow of WWF-UK, an associate of the think-tank Green Alliance, a trustee of the New Economics Foundation, and an environmental advisor in the Church of England.

As an economist at the New Economics Foundation (NEF), Frank is currently leading NEF’s work on sustainable finance. Frank specialises in issues related to money, finance, and banking, and joins NEF from Positive Money, where he was the senior researcher. His background is in development economics and political economy.

As an economist at the New Economics Foundation (NEF), Frank is currently leading NEF’s work on sustainable finance. Frank specialises in issues related to money, finance, and banking, and joins NEF from Positive Money, where he was the senior researcher. His background is in development economics and political economy.

I am in my 29th year of teaching at SUNY Buffalo State. I teach macroeconomics, money & banking, international finance, history of economic thought, among others. I was chair of the department from 2003 to 2009. I have presented papers at numerous national and international conferences, and I have published articles on wealth inequality, consumption, housing policy, monetary policy, and financialisation, among others. My recent area of research is focused on commodity markets, and I recently published The Political Economy of Food and Finance (2016) with Routledge.

PhD, economics, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2013
Graduate Certificate, Advanced Feminist Theory, University of Massachusetts-Amherst, 2013

Research interests: gender and feminist economics, economic inequality, intergenerational persistence, labor economics, applied microeconometrics

Madhavi earned a PhD, MA, and BA in Economics from Vanderbilt University, a Masters in Sustainability and Environmental Management from Harvard University, and a Masters In Environmental Law and Policy from Vermont Law School. A recipient of a Fulbright Distinguished Lectureship (Philippines), she has contributed to numerous books and journal articles on the subject of sustainability and economics. Her present academic interests include the integration of sustainability into the economics curriculum.

Prior to re-entering academics, Madhavi held senior level positions in investor relations for three Fortune 250 companies. In this capacity she was a key point of contact for investors and stakeholders and was instrumental in the development of socially responsible investing strategies and corporate social responsibility reporting. She started her financial services career after completing her post-doctoral fellowship at Washington University in St. Louis.

I am full professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of Roma Tre University, Rome, where I coordinate the Laurea Magistrale (Master) in Scienze Economiche. Since 1995 I am member of the Board of the Centro Ricerche e Documentazione “Piero Sraffa”, and chair the Centro since 2011. From 2007 to 2011 I have been member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy. I am currently member of the Presidency Council of the Italian Economic Association. My research activity is mainly addressed to the modern reappraisal of the classical theory of value and distribution, to the critique of neoclassical theories and the full extension to the long run of the Keynesian approach to the levels of activity, to capital accumulation and to the role of economic policies.

I am a Professor of Economics in the Faculty of Business at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John campus, in Canada. I have been at UNB since 1990, when I graduated with a PhD in economics from the University of Western Ontario. I am a co-author (with Tony Myatt) of The Economics Anti-Textbook: A Critical Thinker’s Guide to Microeconomics (London: Zed Books), which is being revised for a second edition.

Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Centre for Endowment Asset Management, Cambridge Judge Business School

I am full professor of Economics at the Department of Economics of Roma Tre University, Rome, where I coordinate the Laurea Magistrale (Master) in Scienze Economiche. Since 1995 I am member of the Board of the Centro Ricerche e Documentazione “Piero Sraffa”, and chair the Centro since 2011. From 2007 to 2011 I have been member of the Board of Directors of the Italian Association for the History of Political Economy. I am currently member of the Presidency Council of the Italian Economic Association. My research activity is mainly addressed to the modern reappraisal of the classical theory of value and distribution, to the critique of neoclassical theories and the full extension to the long run of the Keynesian approach to the levels of activity, to capital accumulation and to the role of economic policies.

I am Senior Lecturer in economics at the Department of International Business and Economics, University of Greenwich (UoG). I am member of the scientific commettee of the Master program in cooperation and development of the University of Pavia. I also teach economic development and international integration at the University of Bethelehem, Palestine. I hold a PhD in economics of production and development from the University of Insubria (Italy).

I have published several articles on the process of economic development, financial instability and, more recently, on shadow banking in a series of scientific journal such as Structural Change and Economic Dynamics, Metroeconomica, the Review of Political Economy, Journal of Post-Keynesian Economics, Review of Keynesian Economics, Journal of Evolutionary Economics and Macroeconomic Dynamics.

I teach economics, using a broad social sciences approach and process oriented economic approaches, such as Austrian, evolutionary, and institutional economics. My research deals with institutions and evonomic progress, the evolution of monetary arrangements and of norms, as well as cognitive and behaviral aspects of institutions, how people think and act. I combine economic theory and history, bringing in aspects of philosophy, political science, and sociology.

John North is an integrative entrepreneur operating across the boundaries of society, business and education. Following an international strategy consulting career which included founding Accenture’s sustainability practice in Ireland, his passion to make a difference in his home country brought him back to South Africa where he combines local advisory work with an international role at the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative. John is one of the lead contributors to the 50+20 vision “Management Education for the World” and recently directed the design and delivery of a 50+20 Innovation Cohort for Deans and Directors of Business Schools. John and his family lives in the Garden Route of South Africa.

Julie A. Nelson is Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts Boston and Senior Research Fellow at the Global Development and Environment Institute at Tufts University. Her research interests include ecological economics, ethics and economics, and feminist economics. She is the author of many publications including Economics for Humans (Univ. of Chicago Press, 2nd ed. 2018) and articles in journals ranging from Econometrica and Ecological Economics to Economics and Philosophy and Hypatia: Journal of Feminist Philosophy. She is editor of the Economics and Business Ethics section of the Journal of Business Ethics, and is the 2018 President-Elect of the Association for Social Economics.

Carmine Gorga is a former Fulbright scholar and the recipient of a Council of Europe Scholarship for his dissertation on “The Political Thought of Louis D. Brandeis.” With a book titled The Economic Process and a series of papers, Dr. Gorga has transformed the linear world of economics into a relational discipline in which everything is related to everything else, This characteristic of Concordian economics has been recognized by JEL in December 2017 (p. 1642). He was assisted for 27 years by Professor Franco Modigliani, a Nobel laureate in economics at MIT. For a full understanding of Concordian economics, Gorga has gradually realized that we need to go beyond Individualism and Collectivism, toward Somism (men and women in the social context)—see www.somistinstitute.org—and then we need to pass from Rationalism to Relationalism: see www.relationalism.org. See also Wikipedia and Google Scholar.

Studies of Economics at the University of Bremen (Germany) and Manchester (UK), Ph.D at the University of Bremen (1990), Habilitation at the University of Bremen (1998), Senior Researcher at the Economic and Social Research Institute of the German Trade Union Federation, Professor at the University of Konstanz, Vienna University of Economics and Business Administration, the University of Cologne and the Hamburg University of Economics and Political Science.

Research Associate, Cambridge Centre for the Study of Existential Risk
Centre for Endowment Asset Management, Cambridge Judge Business School

John North is an integrative entrepreneur operating across the boundaries of society, business and education. Following an international strategy consulting career which included founding Accenture’s sustainability practice in Ireland, his passion to make a difference in his home country brought him back to South Africa where he combines local advisory work with an international role at the Globally Responsible Leadership Initiative. John is one of the lead contributors to the 50+20 vision “Management Education for the World” and recently directed the design and delivery of a 50+20 Innovation Cohort for Deans and Directors of Business Schools. John and his family lives in the Garden Route of South Africa.

Joe is co-Founder and Trustee of Radix – the think tank for the radical centre where he has authored papers on corporate governance, multiple aspects of Brexit and monetary policy. His primary interest is in the relationship between contemporary culture, politics and business.

An entrepreneur, investor, leadership advisor and commentator, he is an investor and Non-Executive Director in entrepreneurial ventures and advises senior business and institutional leaders on leadership in contemporary culture.

He writes on business and politics for The Huffington Post (UK), Het Financieele Dagblad (Netherlands), Die Achse Des Guten (Germany), The Guardian (UK), The Times of Malta (Malta) and The Stanford Review of Social Innovation (USA). He is co-author with David Boyle of A Radical Politics for Business and The Death of Liberal Democracy?.

He is a member of the Dean�s Advisory Board at the College of Arts, Sciences and Education at Florida International University, has acted as Special Advisor to the Director General at the International Union for Conservation of Nature, and serves on the board of non-profit organisations. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts.

I am currently an Associate Professor at Central European University, Budapest. I have received her M.A. and Ph.D. in Economics from University of Massachusetts, Amherst. My broad research interests include political economy, industrial relations, welfare state policies, and redistribution. In my recent research, I have been specializing on the interrelations between labor market status and socio-economic inequalities. My previous research focuses on analysis of skill formation, skill distribution, and their relation to individual policy preferences across countries and over time. I am also involved in research projects examining the transformation of social protection regimes in several transition countries.

Carmine Gorga is a former Fulbright scholar and the recipient of a Council of Europe Scholarship for his dissertation on “The Political Thought of Louis D. Brandeis.” With a book titled The Economic Process and a series of papers, Dr. Gorga has transformed the linear world of economics into a relational discipline in which everything is related to everything else, This characteristic of Concordian economics has been recognized by JEL in December 2017 (p. 1642). He was assisted for 27 years by Professor Franco Modigliani, a Nobel laureate in economics at MIT. For a full understanding of Concordian economics, Gorga has gradually realized that we need to go beyond Individualism and Collectivism, toward Somism (men and women in the social context)—see www.somistinstitute.org—and then we need to pass from Rationalism to Relationalism: see www.relationalism.org. See also Wikipedia and Google Scholar.

Maria Alejandra C. Madi holds a PhD in Economics and a MA in Philosophy. Her academic career includes a long-term professorship at UNICAMP and visiting professorships at the University of Manitoba and Kassel. In addition to her research interest on the financial challenges of globalisation, her line of investigation includes the philosophy of science at the Center for Pragmatism Studies (Brazil). She is currently member of the board of the Green Economics Institute (UK), Chair of the World Economics Association Online Conference Program (UK), Editor of the WEA Books Conference Series and of the WEA Pedagogy Blog. She co-edited some of The Green Economics Institute books, including The Greening of Global Finance and Values, Valuation and Valuing. She also co-edited some of the World Economics Association books: Ideas towards a new international financial architecture? and Capital and Justice. Her latest authored books include Small Business in Brazil: competitive global challenges and Pluralist Readings in Economics: key-concepts and policy-tools for the 21st century. Her latest co-authored book is Introducing a New Economics: Pluralist, Sustainable and Progressive. She is also Assistant Editor of the International Journal of Pluralism and Economics Education and Co-editor-in-Chief of The Open Journal of Economics and Finance.

Carmine Gorga is a former Fulbright scholar and the recipient of a Council of Europe Scholarship for his dissertation on “The Political Thought of Louis D. Brandeis.” With a book titled The Economic Process and a series of papers, Dr. Gorga has transformed the linear world of economics into a relational discipline in which everything is related to everything else, This characteristic of Concordian economics has been recognized by JEL in December 2017 (p. 1642). He was assisted for 27 years by Professor Franco Modigliani, a Nobel laureate in economics at MIT. For a full understanding of Concordian economics, Gorga has gradually realized that we need to go beyond Individualism and Collectivism, toward Somism (men and women in the social context)—see www.somistinstitute.org—and then we need to pass from Rationalism to Relationalism: see www.relationalism.org. See also Wikipedia and Google Scholar.

I was a researcher at the University of Surry psychology department in the 1980s and went on to a career in information technology specialising in human computer interaction and artificial intelligence.

I was a researcher at the University of Surry psychology department in the 1980s and went on to a career in information technology specialising in human computer interaction and artificial intelligence.

George F. DeMartino is Professor of Economics in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver where he co-directs the MA in Global Finance, Trade and Economic Integration. He has published Global Economy, Global Justice: Theoretical Objections and Policy Alternatives to Neoliberalism (Routledge), and The Economist’s Oath: On the Need for and Content of Professional Economic Ethics (Oxford University Press). He is co-editor with Deirdre N. McCloskey of the Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics. He is now working on The Tragedy of Economics: Harm, Economic Harm, and the Harm Economists Do as They Try to Do Good.

Before entering academia DeMartino was a labor union organizer and negotiator for the AFSCME, AFL-CIO.

George F. DeMartino is Professor of Economics in the Josef Korbel School of International Studies, University of Denver where he co-directs the MA in Global Finance, Trade and Economic Integration. He has published Global Economy, Global Justice: Theoretical Objections and Policy Alternatives to Neoliberalism (Routledge), and The Economist’s Oath: On the Need for and Content of Professional Economic Ethics (Oxford University Press). He is co-editor with Deirdre N. McCloskey of the Oxford Handbook of Professional Economic Ethics. He is now working on The Tragedy of Economics: Harm, Economic Harm, and the Harm Economists Do as They Try to Do Good.

Before entering academia DeMartino was a labor union organizer and negotiator for the AFSCME, AFL-CIO.

Founded in 2007 and renamed in 2012

Carmine Gorga is a former Fulbright scholar and the recipient of a Council of Europe Scholarship for his dissertation on “The Political Thought of Louis D. Brandeis.” With a book titled The Economic Process and a series of papers, Dr. Gorga has transformed the linear world of economics into a relational discipline in which everything is related to everything else, This characteristic of Concordian economics has been recognized by JEL in December 2017 (p. 1642). He was assisted for 27 years by Professor Franco Modigliani, a Nobel laureate in economics at MIT. For a full understanding of Concordian economics, Gorga has gradually realized that we need to go beyond Individualism and Collectivism, toward Somism (men and women in the social context)—see www.somistinstitute.org—and then we need to pass from Rationalism to Relationalism: see www.relationalism.org. See also Wikipedia and Google Scholar.

Dr Kevin Albertson is an eclectic economist with a background in statistics and economics, but now he has escaped (to some extent) from the numerical world of Econometrics into the applied worlds of: Behavioural Economics; Economics and Crime � he is co-author of the critically acclaimed text book �Crime and Economics: An Introduction� �; and the analysis of government policy. He leads the economic components of many PERU projects including, currently, an economic forecasting exercise as part of the InnoSI project.

Kevin�s research interests range from business and social forecasting, through: the frontiers of computing; who is really to blame for the �-zone crisis; social innovation; crime; and the application of classical and behavioural economics to socio-political issues. He is a co-founder and author on the departmental blog �Eomics� (Economics without the con) where has fulminated at short-length on current social challenges.