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Speakers at the 10th
Annual Green
Economics Institute
Green Economics
Conference at
Oxford University
22nd
– 25th
of March 2015, Trinity College, Oxford University
Keynote speakers (All speakers are still confirming so please check latest information with the organisers
Speaker Institution Country Field Bio
Professor Kevin Albertson
Manchester Metropolitan
University
United Kingdom Economics
What are the limits of the State in
the 21st
Century?
Public economy Education, health, the NHS and the state sector of education, transport and infrastructure.
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 analysis.
Professor Victor Anderson
Anglia Ruskin University
United Kingdom Fiscal and Monetary policy
Professor Victor Anderson is the Visiting Professor at the Global Sustainability Institute in Anglia Ruskin University. His research interests include; relationship between ecology and economy, especially globally, sustainable development; green politics & economics.
Professor Dzintra Astaja Latvia Economics
Sustainability Economics
Scientific expert in Management sciences of the Latvian Council of Science; specializes in economics and sustainability, green entrepreneurship, business control systems and management, civil defense and work safety; more than 25 years of experience in business consulting.
Professor Graciela Chichilnisky
Columbia University
Argentina/USA
COP 21 Kyoto Conference in
Paris 2015
Climate Negotiations
Graciela Chichilnisky is the author of the carbon market of the UN Kyoto Protocol that became international law in 2005. She also created the concept of Basic Needs voted by 153 nations at the 1993 UN Earth Summit to be the cornerstone of Sustainable Development, and in 1996 created
the formal theory of Sustainable Development that is used worldwide.
Agobi Genevive Ngozi Nigeria Green Economics Research officer
Martin Keohring The Economist (editor)
Germany Growth and consumption
Martin Koehring is a senior economist, editor and project manager, currently at The Economist Group. An experienced public speaker, Martin's media experience includes appearances and/or mentions in various outlets, including ABC News, BBC News, Bloomberg, Deutsche Welle TV, Sky News, The Guardian.
Dr. Chidi Magnus Onuoha
Institute of Mathemathics
in Nigeria
Nigeria Plenary Debate
Nigeria Beyond Oil The Prospects and
Challenges of Renwable energy programme: The Nigerian National
Petroleum (NNPC)
Dr Chidi Magnus Onouha (Nigeria) is a Development Economist, and Public Policy Analyst. Qualified from University of Port Harcourt, Nigeria and he is a member of the Green Economics Institute, UK. He taught Economics at the Institute for Continuing Education Programme, Imo State University, Nigeria before he left for National Assembly, Abuja Nigeria where he served as a Senior Legislative Aide to the House Committee on Petroleum.
Sadeeq Mai-Bornu Nigeria Plenary Debate
Nigeria Beyond Oil The Prospects and
Challenges of Renwable energy programme: The Nigerian National
Petroleum (NNPC)
Actg Group General Manager, Renewable Energy Division, NNPC
Professor Dr Abbas al Mejeren
Dr. Abbas Al-Mejren was the Kuwait Foundation Visiting Scholar and Professor of economics at Kuwait University with a PhD from University of Exeter, and has a Master of Economics from the University of Oregon. He was Head of Economics at Kuwait University
Carbon Emissions and Low Carbon Economics
His research interests include fiscal and monetary policy,
strategic planning, and industrial, education
and energy economics.
Why Saudis Are Holding Strong on Oil
Why the United States Should Spread
Democracy Deterrence Works,
but Only until War Recurs
Dr. Al-Mejren is an expert consultant to the Ministry of
Planning, Ministry of Commerce and Industry and Kuwait Industrial Bank. He has been an advisor to the Minister of Finance and is a current advisor to the Minister of Commerce and Industry. At the present, he is also an academic
advisor for the Kuwait Program at the London School of Economics,
and Director of Energy and Environment Studies at the Center
for Excellence at Kuwait University’s College of Business
Administration
Professor Wendy Olsen Manchester University
United Kingdom Resilience as a Cross-National
Approach for Youth Interventions:
Wendy Olsen's research focuses on the sociology of economic life. She has interests in methodology cutting across the whole range from
Values, Norms and Green Improvements in the Micropolitical
Realm
quantitatively based to qualitative research and discourse analysis. She specialises in the study of economic institutions from sociological and moral economy vantage points. Her research has included case studies of Indian and UK labour markets, the credit market involvement of the poor in India, and other topics in economic sociology.
Professor Dooa Salmon Economics
Modern Sciences & Arts
University (MSA)
Egypt Green Economics
Agricultural sustainability in Egypt
Economist, professor of mathematics.
She is an Associate Professor of Economics, MSA University, Egypt. Her research interests are related
to development & role of entrepreneurs to robust economies.
She is as a certified trainer. She has taught, trained,lectured post &
undergraduate.
Dr. Tonia Warnecke South Asia Center at
Rollins College, USA Political
Science Master's of Public and
International Affairs
University of Pittsburgh; and
a M.A. and Ph.D. in
Economics from the
University of Notre Dame.
USA Microfinance
She specializes in gender and
development issues, including labor,
finance, and social policy. Labour
Organization, and in 2013 she
collaborated with the United Nations
Research Institute on Social
Development Handbook of
Research on Gender and Economic Life,
coedited with Deborah Figart,
Tonia is a development economist and has written and spoken extensively on development processes and policy, particularly related to gender. She has researched most world regions, but specializes in Asia. In the last 5 years, Tonia has published more than 15 peer-reviewed articles/chapters,characterized by interdisciplinary, policy-oriented research. Dr. Warnecke was awarded the Young Scholars Award by the European Society for the History of Economic Thought in 2009, and in 2012 received a best paper award at the International Symposium for Entrepreneurship and Innovation for her research on female entrepreneurship International
Yuan Yang Founder of Rethinking Economics/
London School of Economics
Founder of the Rethinking Economics Movement at the London School of Economics Master Class in Student Activism for the 21st century.
Yuan is a Visiting Student at Peking University this academic year, where she is doing research for Lord Adair Turner on Chinese financial stability. She has recently finished an MSc. in Economics at the London School of Economics, and before that, did her undergraduate in Philosophy and Economics (PPE) at Balliol College, Oxford. She has been a political organiser at the Oxford University Student Union and briefly at London Citizens. She is rethinking economics because she wants to expand her imagination of what is economically possible.
Professor Muhammad Yunus
Cambridge University/economist/
Bangladesh
He obtained his Ph.D. in economics from Vanderbilt University
Muhammad Yunus is a Bangladeshi social entrepreneur,
Nobel prize winner
in the United States in 1969 after getting a Fulbright scholarship. From 1969 to 1972, Yunus was an assistant professor of economics at Middle Tennessee State University before moving back to Bangladesh, where he joined Chittagong University as an economics professor. Yunus first got involved in fighting poverty during a 1974 famine in Bangladesh. He discovered that very small loans could make a disproportionate difference to a poor person. Â His first loan consisted of US$27 from his own pocket, which he lent to women in the village of Jobra near Chittagong University who made bamboo furniture. They had to take out loans in order to buy bamboo. They then sold these items to the moneylenders to repay them. With a net profit of 5 Bangladeshi taka (.02 USD), the women were unable to support their families. However, traditional banks were not interested in making tiny loans at more reasonable interest rates to poor people, who were considered repayment risks.
banker, economist and civil society leader who was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Grameen Bank and pioneering the concepts of microcredit and microfinance. During this time, he established a rural economic programme as a research project. In 1974, he developed a Tebhaga Khamar (three share farm) which the government adopted as the Packaged Input Programme. In order to make the project more effective, Yunus and his associates proposed another project called 'Gram Sarkar' (the village government). The government adopted it in 1980, but the succeeding regime later lifted it away.
Speakers
Speaker Country Field Biography
Ada Metaliu Albania Economics
Economics in Albania
Graduated as Agrarian Economist in Agricultural University of Tirana, in 2008. Post Graduated Studies in Mediterranean Agronomic Institute of Chania (Crete.Greece)in 2008-2009 .Work experience as economist in a private sector, XSA.Co in 2010. Metaliu cares about: Economic, Empowerment,Education, Environment,Disaster and Humanitarian Relief, Social Services.
Alex Wood
Cambridge University
United Kingdom The new feudalism and the new slave
trade:
Multinationals and the supply
chain;
Exploring the eroding of
human rights – we all connive in
to obtain products we
think we must have
Alex is Professor and Director of the Behavioral Science Centre at Stirling Management School, University of Stirling, which links the behavioural sciences (such as psychology) with the social sciences (such as economics and management) in order to better understand connections between economic, psychological, and health outcomes and their determinants.
Ashley Ritchie University of Hull
United Kingdom Democracy
To Frack or not to Frack?
Would you allow fracking under your home?
Lawyer
Beka Tchkuaseli Georgia Energy Resources
Mr. Beka Tchkuaseli, General Manager of the non-governmental organization “Georgian Association
for Protection of Natural and Energy Resources” and has a
degree in Economics
Chit Chong Former Green Councillor
United Kingdom Intergenerational Equity in
economics
Sustainability expert with experience in waste management, sustainable construction, energy and carbon reduction, low energy refurbishment and behavior change.
Clive Lord Probation Officer
United Kingdom Citizens income and minimum wage current
arguments
He was first contributor to the green ' Manifesto for a Sustainable Society', drafting the section
outlining the crucial link between social justice and preserving the planet's life support systems, He has consistently advocated the
Citizens' Basic Income and currently lives in the Lilac Housing Cooperative in a straw bale house
in Leeds.
Councillor David Oxford United Kingdom Low carbon Degree in Art History and Politics at
Williams Excellence government
Newcastle University and international politics at Manchester University with an MA. He took a further Masters Degree in International Education later. David worked as a senior lecturer in FE and HE for 35 years in a number of Colleges and Universities including a number of years as Chief Executive of Quest Quays International an organisation heavily involved in developmental projects with Eastern European countries.He came to Oxford in 1997 as head of the International Office at what is now OCVC. His role was to recruit students to study in Oxford at the College and its associates. As a result of his work he travelled all over the world.David now heads up Oxford UK Excellence a consultancy group that brings leading edge expertise in a wide range of themes to international clients. After 20 years on Rochdale Council as a Labour councillor where he served as Chair of Education Committee and Chair of Economic Development
Douglas Watson Nottingham university
Business
Development Manager GRACE
Nottingham Geospatial
United Kingdom Satellite Systems and Space
Douglas Watson has extensive experience in satellite communications and navigation consultancy, SME learning, technology transfer and innovation management within the University and industry (SME) sectors. He is the former Global Business Development Manager at Carpe Diem and has held senior international positions at Inmarsat, Ericsson and Motorola. He has participated in numerous SME focused research projects funded by industry, regional and national research councils, the European Space Agency and the European Commission, culminating in his appointment by the European Commission as an expert external evaluator and project manager of FP7 Projects. He is also currently acting as Consultant to the University of Nottingham's GNSS Research and Applications Centre of Excellence where he acts as programme manager for the European Satellite Navigation Competition, which aims to stimulate SME innovation in the downstream satellite navigation
market. GRACE is part of the Nottingham Geospatial Institute at the University of Nottingham, an internationally recognised centre of excellence in surveying, positioning and navigation technologies.
Dr. Chuen – Khee Pek Nottingham University/ Malaysia campus
Malaysia Agriculture and
sustainability
His main research interest is in the application of econometrics and environmental valuation methodologies such as choice modeling and contingent valuation on environmental issues, such like solid waste management, climate change, food security and other green issues.
Dr. Shi-Min Nottingham University/ Malaysia campus
Malaysia Calculative practices and
social inequality: a perspective from Malaysia
Min is an expert in the fields of corporate finance and financial markets. She has worked on various litigation cases involving valuation, solvency, and damage estimations in a variety of industries, including insurance, banking and financial services, energy, and consumer and business services.
Dr. Aija Graudin Latvia Environmental Risk and
Insurance and Extreme weather
conditions
Specialist in Insurance and resilience and finance in an age of Instability.
Dr. Enrico Tezza
International Labour
Organisation in Torino
Italy Trade Unions and Labour Economics:
The minimum wage vs. the living wage
Labour economist.
Dr. Kasem Timotius Low carbon economics
Olimjon SAIDMAMATOV University of Bradford and Urgench State
University
Uzbekistan Environmental Sustainability in a
developing country
Accounting and Finance .
Professor Ruth Pearson
University of Leeds
United Kingdom Plan F9 ( feminist economics):
Creating a social
infrastructure Womens
Budget Group
Current research is on gender and work in the global economy; home based work and workers organizations; gendered analysis of production and social reproduction; migrant workers and identity – Burma/Thailand and the UK; gender and economic transition (Cuba); money – micro credit, community currencies;
hypothecated taxation; gender and development policy and prospects.
Francesca Cole Lawyer Hull University And with another
degree from Université
Montesquieu-Bordeaux IV
United Kingdom Environmental Law
Lawyer and Founder of Hull University Green Society
Henry Cox United Kingdom Non Monetary Part of the economy
Veteran campaigner and gardener
Kamilė Bukaveckaitė Vytautas Magnus
University
Lithuania Social justice in Eastern Europe;
Democracy and Power Relations
Current student of Public Administration in Vytautas Magnus University
Dr. Katherine Kennet Imperial College in London/ National Health Service
United Kingdom Saving the National Health Service: our national treasure!
The latest developments in health
care and equality.
Medical Practitioner and Global Health Specialist specialising in Psychiatry who has worked in Ghorka Nepal and last year did the Anapurna Pass getting to 16,000 feet.
Katy Lee Pilot/ Economist
United Kingdom Aviation Debate Panel
This house would rather be flying than walking?
What sort of infrastructure do
we want?
International Studies graduate. Qualified Flight Instructor
and fATPL holder. Trainer/Lecturer with experience in IT, Maths, English and First Aid instruction.
Councillor Larry Sanders
Lawyer from Harvard
United Kingdom Low carbon government
County Councillor at Oxfordshire County Council. I grew up in New York City live in Oxford since 1969,. I was elected to the County Council in 2005 and re-elected in 2009. I was the Leader of the Green Group I trained as a Social Worker and Lawyer. I have worked as a Community Worker, Social Worker (with Children and people with Mental Health problems), Senior Lecturer in Social Work, Visiting Lecturer in Health and Social Care Law, Director of the Community Work Practice Learning Centre for Oxford University, Anti-poverty Project Leader for Oxfordshire Carers Forum, Legal Advisor for Oxfordshire Community Care Rights and as a Non-Executive Director of Oxfordshire NHS Mental Health Trust
Leslek Wozniak Agricultural economist
Poland Agriculture in Poland
Luis Muggeo Environment, Energy and Financial Economics
Lynden Moore Oxford/ Birmingham universities
lecturer
United Kingdom India Panel
Memories of India
Now retired Lynden Moore was formerly in the department of economics at Manchester University. She is now a part-time lecturer at Birmingham and Oxford.
Marej Charenowski Agricultural economist
Poland Agriculture in Poland
Marian Wozniak Agricultural economist
Poland Agriculture in Poland
Marlyn Lee University of Edinburgh/
Radiographer
United Kingdom Green Economics Institute Charitable Trust Presentation
Marlyn our Chair of Trustees is a Radiographer qualified at Edinburgh University, a former BA Air Hostess and a teacher and designer of Education Courses at Newbury College. Marlyn is our Director of Studies at the Green Economics Institute Trust.
Megan Randles United Kingdom Renewables
SMART GRID solar wind,
etc.
Demonstration of
alternatives
Politics and International Relations Student. I am a manager at a charity student run Fair Trade cafe within the University.
Michelle Gale de Oliveira Director of the Green
Economics/ Law School in
London/ SOAS
USA / Brasil Green Political Economy
Launching new journal
Michelle S. Gale de Oliveira is CEO of the Gender Progress Consortium and a director of the Green Economics Institute, UK. She is a member of the Law School of the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), holding an MA in Human Rights Law with a focus on Islamic Law, Peace-Building, and Developing Countries.
Miriam Kennet Co-founder of the Green
Economics Institute/
Environmental Change
institution at Oxford
United Kingdom Saving the National Health Service: our
national treasure! The
latest developments in health care and
equality.
Founder and Director of The Green Economics Institute and also a regular speaker, lecturer and trainer on business, economics and all aspects of procurement and public policy and sustainability. Author
and editor of many books and articles. Recently won an award as one of 100 most influential women on the planet and the Honour Award from the Ministry of Trade in Luxembourg.
Oliver Kennedy Germany Power relations
Forests and trees
Inequalities now threaten the global economy
Assisted forestry team in the development of a joint forestry project in the Amazon basin by delivering systematic evaluation and a tabular overview of current best forestry practices in the Neotropics. The overview provided the foundations for subsequent negotiations between the German development bank (KfW) and WWF Germany.
Peter Lang Founder of United Kingdom The economics of Peter Lang is the chair of the G&A
Green and Away
care trustees and the site manager, overseeing our equipment. He was one of the founders, and has been involved with the organisation since 1990. He works as a freelance environmental consultant, advising and researching on environmental issues for a wide range of organisations. He is currently the Environment Custodian for Riversimple Ltd, a highly innovative company building a hydrogen car; and is Events Manager for Resurgence & Ecologist Magazine. In the past he has worked for the European Parliament, the Green Group in the London Assembly, as adviser to the Deputy Mayor of London, and as a trustee of a major public pension fund.
Peter Mc Manners Reading University/ Founder of Pengboune
sustainability
United Kingdom Environmental
Sustainability
Peter McManners has written extensively on sustainability and resilience with a particular focus on government, business and the economy. After a successful career in both the public and private sectors he was appointed as a Visiting Fellow of Henley Business School, Reading University where he teaches and supervises the research of MBA students throughout the world.
Professor Jose Vargas Microeconomist
Mexico Labour Economics
Ricky Holcroft Oxford University/ economist
United Kingdom Economics reform
Launching new journal
Sabeeta Nathan Leicester University
France Untangling Economics
Student Protests in Economics- finally some action!
Economist.
Dr Simi Kamal Pakistan Gender Equality
Dr Kamal has over 150
assignments and postings
as team leader and
consultant to her credit.
She is the author and co-
author of over 180
research and evaluation
reports, handbooks and
training modules (several
in print), book chapters
and over 450 articles and
papers published and
presented nationally,
regionally and
Dr Simi Kamal was the Founding Chairperson of Hisaar Foundation. A geographer with Bachelors (Hons) and Masters Degrees from the University of Cambridge and 30 years of experience in water, environment, sanitation and health, irrigation, drainage, food security, climate change, women’s empowerment and related areas. She is the founder of several private and non-profit organizations including Raasta Development Consultants (now 21 years old), Raasta Marketing Research (Private) Ltd and Hisaar Foundation. She currently leads the
internationally. She
appears regularly on
international and national
media on issues relating
to
water, environment,
gender, human rights and
the donor-NGO-
government nexus. She is
a tireless campaigner for
fund-raising, emergency
support and humanitarian
causes.
Gender Equity Program (GEP) of Aurat Foundation in Pakistan, supported by USAID. She has also founded several international and national networks and initiatives and carried out numerous assignments for World Bank, ADB, UN agencies, Government of Pakistan and other countries, WWF and numerous international agencies. She was a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of Global Water Partnership (GWP) for six years from 2003 to 2009 and a member of the National Commission on the Status of Women (NCSW) from 2003 to 2009. She is also an associate of Water for Food Institute, University of Nebraska.
Councillor Sushilla Dall Oxford councillor
United Kingdom Low carbon government
Areas of special interest are
transport and planning, and social welfare. I believe in
grass-roots democracy and
equality of access. Current campaigns include working to
narrow the roadway on St Giles, to create Oxford's most beautiful
public square, and the Campaign to
Save Port Meadow seeking to lower the heights of the Roger
Dudman way buildings to restore
views of the Dreaming Spires and St Barnabas
Tower.
County Councillor A graduate of St Hilda's College, Oxford, who has lived in central Oxford for nearly 30 years, Sushila works as a manager and a psychotherapist at an Oxford-based charity. She is a mother with a daughter who attends Cherwell School. Sushila is chair of Oxfordshire Green Party and the candidate for Oxford's North ward, and a keen cyclist and walker. Her interests are listening to and making music, reading and writing, and gardening. She also likes building fires and staring out to sea.
Sylvia Wozniak Agricultural economist
Poland Agriculture in Poland
Volker Heinemann
Co-founder of the Green
Economics Institute/
Accountant/ Auditor/
Economist
Germany Macro economics The need for a Progressive
perspective on the economy-
Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors, Specialists in professional services and business consulting including audit for foreign subsidiaries (particularly German) in the UK. Co Founder and Director of the Green Economics Institute.
This initial speaker list is intended for guidance only, and speakers are currently confirming. The Green
Economics Institute can not be hold responsible if the line – up of speakers is slightly different. Please
email us to check if you wish to confirm that a particular speaker will be presenting and for the latest line
– up information because the speakers list and bookings are open at the moment.
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