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LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS Dr Susan Canney has worked on a variety of nature conservation projects in Africa, Asia and Europe (living for several years in Niger and Tanzania) and as a research officer for Sir Crispin Tickell at the Green College Centre for Environmental Policy & Understanding. With MAs in Natural Sciences, Landscape Design, and Environmental Policy, and a Doctorate for understanding the drivers behind changing human land use and its impact on a protected area in Tanzania, her current research activities are centred on the use of spatial techniques for understanding human impact on ecosystems and wildlife. This understanding is used to find sustainable solutions in order to manage human-wildlife conflict; plan and implement conservation strategy; and develop participatory approaches to conservation management. Current projects include assuring a future for a unique population of elephants in the sub-Sahara of Mali as Project Leader of the WILD Foundation's Mali Elephant Project. Based in Oxford University's Zoology Department, she teaches global ecology and is particularly interested in the shift in scientific perspective presented by systemic approaches such as Lovelock's Gaia Theory; and in exploring the implications of this shift for society, its institutions, as well as for the individual's experience of Nature. She is the Secretary and a Co-founder of the Earth System Science Special Interest Group of the Geological Society of London, and of the Gaia Network. She teaches on the issues surrounding the notion of valuing nature for the Green Economics Institute and is a member of their Biodiversity Group. Seldag Gunes Ceylan is an associate professor in Gazi University Faculty of Law in Ankara, Turkey. She is working on roman law, family law, gender studies and social media. Between 1995- 1997, she worked as a lawyer in Priministry Privatization Administration in Ankara. She did her doctoral studies in Universita La Sapienza Facolta di Giurisprudenza in Rome by Scholarship of Italian Government and worked with Prof. Dr. Luigi Capogrossi Colognese. In 2001 she attended Corso di Perfezionamento, in Universita La Sapienza Facolta di Giurisprudenza, Istituto di Diritto Romano in Rome. She had academic scholarships from DAAD and Max Planck Institute several times for her post doctoral researches in Germany. She is the editor of some law reviews in and out of Turkey. She knows English (fluent), Italian (fluent), German (good) and Latin (intermediate). She has two books; 1. Marriage in Roman Law (Matrimonium), Ankara 2010, 2. Guardianship, From Roman Law to Turkish Law, Ankara 2004. And she has many articles published in different reviews and presentations in international conferences. She is currently the Head of the Department of Roman Law in Gazi University and giving lectures also in Cankaya University and Kirikkale University. Graciela Chichilnisky has worked extensively in the Kyoto Protocol process, creating and designing the carbon market that became international law in 2005. She also acted as a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which received the 2007 Nobel Prize. A frequent keynote speaker, special adviser to several UN organisations and heads of state, her pioneering work uses innovative market mechanisms to reduce carbon emissions, conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services and improve the lot of the poor. She is a Professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics at Columbia University and the Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Professor at Monash University. Website: www.chichilnisky.com Soma Dey is a Lecturer at the Department of Women and Gender Studies, University of Dhaka, Bangladesh. Sue England worked as a solicitor in England, before moving to Brussels, where she took a masters degree in European Union law and the economics of European integration and transition economics. For eight years she worked in Brussels advising companies and industry organisations on labour and consumer law, following this with a year in Ukraine advising the Ukrainian government on its Partnership and Cooperation Agreement with the EU. She returned to the UK , to work as an academic teaching EU law and human rights law in Scotland at the University of Abertay then Dundee University. She is presently completing another Masters in Comparative Public Policy at Edinburgh University and also completing a book on the UK 's financial system and how it affects provision in old age for women. Aija Graudina is a Doctor of Economic sciences, works as an Associate Professor of BA School of Business and Finance (Latvia). Specialization: insurance and reinsurance industry, insurance economy (green economic). She is a member of the International Insurance Society (iis) and the Latvian Association of Economics. Michelle S. Gale de Oliveira is a Director of the Green Economics Institute, UK. She studied at International Relations Department at Richmond, the American International University in London (RAIUL), is currently at SOAS, London University and lives in the remote rainforest in Brazil. She has edited the Green Economics Institute's members' magazine, The Green Economist, and is a deputy editor for the International Journal of Green Economics. Her writing has been featured in Europe's World, one of the foremost European policy magazines. She lectures and speaks on Environmental and Social Justice, Gender Equity, and International Development from a Green Economics perspective. She is founder/ chair of the Gender Equity Forum. She organised a Green Economics conference on women's unequal pay and poverty in Reading, UK, and lectured on green economics in Berlin, Germany, at retreats in Glastonbury, UK, and and the American University in FYRO Macedeonia. She is a regular speaker at international conferences, and was on the Green Economics Institute's Delegation to Copenhagen COP15 Kyoto Conference and headed up its delegation to Cancun Mexico COP16 Kyoto Conference. Christine Haswell works for the trade union Public and Commerical Services (PCS) which represents 300,000 civil and public servants. Her current role is as a Research Officer responsible for Pension Issues, although she has had many roles over the past 23 years including two years secondment to the Equal Opportunities Commission working on Equal Pay. Her most recent challenge has been working with TUC colleagues on Lord Hutton's proposal to radically change public service pensions. Meredith Hunter is the Leader of the ACT Greens and the Chair of the Climate Change Environment and Water Committee. Prior to entering parliament she was the Non-Executive Director of the ACTION Board, Chair of the Joint Community Government Reference Group, the Youth Homelessness Working Group and the Anti-Poverty ACT Facilitating Group; a board member of ACT Shelter, National Shelter and the Australian Youth Affairs Coalition. She is also an Adjunct Professional Associate, Youth Work, at University of Canberra. Norferanti Kamarudin is Green Economics Institute member in Malaysia who has become M.GEI a full Professional Member of the Green Econmics Institute. Miriam Kennet A specialist in Green Economics, she is the Co-Founder and is CEO of the Green Economics Institute. She also founded and edits the first Green Economics academic journal in the world, the International Journal of Green Economics, and she has been credited with creating the academic discipline of Green Economics. Green Economics has been recently described by the Bank of England as one of the most vibrant and healthy areas of economics at the moment. Having researched at Oxford University, Oxford Brookes and South Bank University ,she is a member of Mansfield College, Oxford University and the Environmental Change Institute. She has taught, lectured and spoken at Universities and events all over Europe, from Alicante to Oxford and Bolzano, and to government officials from Montenegro and Kosovo to The UK Cabinet Office, Transport Department, National Government School and Treasury and spoken in Parliaments from Scotland to Austria and The French Senat and Estonia. She is also a regular and frequently speaks at public events of all kinds, and after dinner speaker., this week advising in the Uk Parliament and the Bank of England and in Brussels on the Eurozone crisis, the high speed rail and the general economics situation. Taking part in the protests against mainstream economics outside the London Stock Exchange, the protesters find her ideas really useful. She is also very active in spreading Green Economics in Asia, China, and all round Africa where people find it may be one of the beacons of hope at the moment in an age of Austerity and Cuts as it provides a completely new way of looking at the world. Her work is very practical and she worked in factories and engineering for many years in the past. Sje is on the Assembly of the Green European Foundation and also on the steering group of the European Network of Political Foundations. She has a delegation to the UNFCC COP Kyoto Climate Change Conferences and this year will head up a delegation to RIO + 20 Earth Summit: Greening the Economy in RIO Brazil where she is very active. She regularly speaks on TV around Europe, most recently in Belgium, and Estonia and this year the BBC has made a special programme about her life and work. She runs regular conferences at Oxford University about Green Economics and this year has run 8 events from Youth in Action for Young People from Egypt involved in the revolution, People from FYRO Macedonia, Italy and other countries, as well as the Green Built Environment, The Greening of China as the Chinese government is very interested in her work, Womens Unequal Pay and poverty, Green Economics and Methodology, truth,fact and reality with critical realism and several other events. Publishing regularly and having over 100 articles, papers and other publications, as well 4 book series, one with Ashgate Academic Press, one with Gower Management Publishers, as well as a Handbook series and a Green Economics Reader Series. This years edited volumes include Green Economics:Voices of Africa, The Green Economics Reader, Handbook of Green Economics:A Practitioners Guide, The Green Built Environment, Women's Unequal Pay and Poverty,Green Economics and Climate Change, as well as a new chapter on the green built environment and climate change for Wileys publishers in Lamond, Hammond and Proverbs. She also publishes in scientific papers, this year including the Latvian National Scientific Papers and Journals for example and book chapters including this year the University of Syracuse in the USA and she has been featured in the Harvard Economics Review and Wall Street Journal as a leader. Last month she was named one of 100 most powerful unseen global women by the Charity One World action for her global work on increasing women's economics power! Ewa Larsson is the chair of Green women, a NGO which is a member of the Swedish Women Lobby and the Gender and Water Alliance. She is a former member of the Swedish Parliament and she is a member of the Green Party of Sweden. She is now a member of the Stockholm City Council and the vice chair of the area board of Skarpnack, Stockholm. She is graduated in social science and a teacher of Waldorf pedagogic. Carolina Lopez is the Coordinator of Green Economy and member of the board of Spanish Green Movement Coordinadora Verde. She is a young entrepeuner and mother, has a B.A in English and Russian translation and lives in Barcelona. Aleksandra Lukaszewicz, born in 1978 in Szczecin, Poland. Graduated Photography at Academy of Art in Poznan and Philosophy at University of Szczecin, currently doing her doctoral studies in Philosophical Esthetics at University of Warsaw. Since engaged 2004 in Polish feminists' and green movements. Organized discussions, debates and conferences, dealing with themes of education, socio-political justice, women rights and stereotypes existing in social life. Co-organized cultural events in Szczecin, such as Festival of Young Theater "Okno" or Festival of Street Artists. Published in scientific and cultural Polish magazines, such as "Nowa Krytka", "Konteksty", "Rita Baum", and others. Exhibited series of photos and artistic books in art galleries in Szczecin. Set up with her mother and her friend a Foundation in order to make their postulates real. Up till now the Foundation has organized a conference on "Feminism and Radicalism in social movements and critical perspectives" (Szczecin, 2-3 March, 2006), published a book after the conference "Feminism and radicalism - ", and a Polish translation of book of Sasha Muller-Kraenner on "Energy security. A New Survey of the World". Bente Teglgard Madeira - Her own life experience as a single mother let her to fully appreciate the works of Maria Mies and Vandana Shiva especially after traveling to Nicaragua and India. The final link was made when she organized a Women's Day conference and heard Dr.Marilyn Waring's analysis of how the current Economic system came about after the War. It explains precisely the Credit crunch and Climate Change as well as the increase in Poverty worldwide. Maria Alejandra Caporale Madi has a PhD in Economics and is Professor and researcher at the Instituto de Economia, State University of Campinas, Brazil. She is the author of Monetary Policy in Brazil: a Post-Keynesian interpretation; her recent publications include: Corporate social responsibility: credit and banking inclusion in Brazil and. Financialization; Private equity investment and labor: faceless capital and the challenges to trade unions in Brazil. Anusha Mahendran is a researcher based at Curtin University in Perth, Western Australia who is affiliated with the Women in Social & Economic Research (WiSER) unit and also the Centre for Research in Applied Economics (CRAE). She has conducted research in a diverse range of fields including labour, gender, housing and welfare economics. Some of her key interest areas include Development Economics, Political Economy, Heterodox Economics and issues relating to Social and Gender Equity. Anusha attended the 2nd Annual Green Economics Conference and presented a refereed paper at the 4th Annual Green Economics Conference. Anusha has also published a refereed article in the International Journal of Green Economics, which she co-authored with Dr Therese Jefferson. Mahelet Alemayehu Mekonnen is an Ethiopian economist interested in economics and political science at Richmond The American University in London. She heads up our Africa team and is editor of our special issue of our academic journal on Africa and our forthcoming book about Africa. She is economics advisor for the management team. She is a firm believer in education and believes in tackling one of the most important problems we are facing in the global world, particularly the issue of climate change and inequality towards women. Her work relates to examining large projects and questions of sustainability - and development. Maret Merisaar Doctor of Biology and recent MP in Estonia. She is a specialist in Baltic Sea biodiversity. Smita Mehta has her MBA from Jaipur University and is currently studying the MPhil course in Economics at Cambridge University. She worked as a Research Assistant at the Cathie Marsh Centre for Census & Survey Research at the University during 2004-2006. Isayvani Naicker is researching Geography at the University of Cambridge, looking at the interaction of science and policy in society, focused on a case study of biodiversity conservation in South Africa. Her previous degrees include a Master of Science (Geology) from the University of Cape Town in South Africa and Master of Science (Philosophy of Social Science) from the London School of Economics and Political Science in he UK. She work s in the environmental and sustainable development fields in Africa. Wendy Olsen is a Lecturer in Socio-Economic Research at the University of Manchester. Her previous works include Rural Indian Social Relations (Oxford University Press, 1996) and The Politics of Money, (Pluto, 2002, with Frances Hutchinson and Mary Mellor). Charlotte Revely is a passionate advocate for environmental and social justice with wide and varied experience as a programme director with responsibility for leadership and sustainable development, director of a local food co-operative and on the advisory board of a local sustainable enterprise. She has delivered projects to integrate sustainability into mainstream leadership, women's leadership, management and policy training within UK and internationally for the National School of Government. She is an alumnae of Bath University MSc in Responsibility and Business Practice. Adrian Robertson Over the last few years Adrian has applied his knowledge of education for sustainability, psychology and leadership studies in a public sector training environment. He wider interest is in Questions of Sustainability * how principles of sustainability raise compelling questions about existing priorities in public decision making. When applied sustainability principles may sit uneasily with established economic and industry models. How can public officials under political supervision convene well informed, democratically credible and scientifically realistic deliberations? Adrian wants to be part of initiatives that help motivated people puzzle their way through these problems. Jane Skinner has a background in both philosophy and education. She is a Senior Research Associate in the Faculty of Management Studies, University of KwaZulu Natal, and is a Visiting Senior Researcher at the University of the Witwatersrand's School of Education. Her professional work is currently in the field of tertiary education and specifically in economics and accountancy curriculum development. She is educational adviser to the South African Institute of Chartered Accountants and to the University of Limpopo's School of Accounting. She has published in Metaphilosophy, in the International Journal of Green Economics and in the South African journals Education and Perspectives in Education. Dr Michael Taylor is a senior economics and business Lecturer, who has travelled extensively in India, and did his PhD research on women in business in Karnataka. He has research interests and particular expertise in small businesses, green economics and feminist economics. He is currently researching qualitative research methodology in economics. Dr. Natalie West Kharkongor, currently an Assistant Professor of Economics at IIM Shillong, received the Broad Outlook Learner Teacher Award from the Prime Minister, Dr. Manmohan Singh in 2004. She also received the Rashtriya Gaurav Award with Certificate of Excellence in 2011 in New Delhi. She has presented and published a number of papers. She was the Joint Secretary of North Eastern Economic Association and the Vice President of Meghalaya Economic Association. Amana Winchester has worked at the Green Economics Institute and was a local Parish Councilor. She has a strong interest in and is very active in sustainability. She is qualified in Geography and Anthropology, and is an experienced teacher and lecturer in Geographical methods and pedagogy and education in the primary school and at Oxford Brookes University. Holly Zheng researching at Bristol University is currently undertaking research on Chinese grassroots NGOs based at Tsinghua University's NGO Research Center in Beijing. Inexplicably drawn to China as a child, she finally set foot there as a young adult following a detour taking her Japan where she spent an enriching couple of years working as a JET. Now firmly rooted in Beijing, where she lives with her husband Zheng Shuguang, she is constantly inspired by the spirit of the people with whom she works at local NGOs, and is working hard to do justice to the great opportunity she has been given to learn from China's most highly esteemed scholars under Professor Wang Ming at Tsinghua University.