Kate Raworth is an economist best known for the term ‘Doughnut Economics‘. She is focussed on exploring the economic mindset needed to address the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges.
Raworth believes that humanity’s 21st century challenge is to meet the needs of all within the means of the planet. She wants to ensure that no one falls short on life’s essentials while at the same time, ensuring that, collectively we do not overshoot our pressure on the earth’s life-supporting systems.
‘The Doughnut of Social and Planetary boundaries’ is a playfully serious approach to framing that challenge, and it acts as a compass for human progress this century.
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Book:
Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist
Recent Media:
Amsterdam Is Embracing a Radical New Economic Theory to Help Save the Environment. Could It Also Replace Capitalism?
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Kate Raworth is an economist who is focussed on sustainable development. She is internationally known for her work on ‘doughnut economics’, which i is an economic model that balances our essential human needs with our planetary boundaries.
This theory of economics has been widely influential amongst sustainable development thinkers, progressive businesses and political activists. Raworth has presented this theory to audiences ranging from the UN General Assembly to the Occupy movement.
Over the past 20 years, Kate’s career has taken her from working with micro-entrepreneurs in the villages of Zanzibar to co-authoring the Human Development Report for UNDP in New York, followed by a decade as Senior Researcher at Oxfam. Currently she is the Senior Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, where she teaches on the Masters in Environmental Change and Management. She is also Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.
She holds a first class BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and an MSc in Economics for Development, both from Oxford University. She is a member of the Club of Rome and serves on several advisory boards, including the Stockholm School of Economics’ Global Challenges program, the University of Surrey’s Center for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, and Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute.
She has written extensively for media including The Guardian, The New Statesman, Newsweek.com, and Wired.com, and has contributed to many radio programs including for BBC Radio 4, The World Service, ABC and NPR, as well as television including CNN World News, Al-Jazeera, BBC, ITV and CBC. The Guardian has named her as “one of the top ten tweeters on economic transformation.”
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