Hi all,
Kate's presentation was great! I have pasted in the You Tube
link and background information. Enjoy! Kirk Rensmeyer
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPa1fmlY3Uo
Kate Raworth (sounds like ‘Ray-worth’) is a renegade economist focused
on making economics fit for 21st century realities. She is the creator
of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries, and co-founder of
Doughnut Economics Action Lab.
Her internationally best-selling book Doughnut Economics: seven ways
to think like a 21st century economist has been translated into over
20 languages and has been widely influential with diverse audiences,
from the UN General Assembly to Pope Francis to Extinction Rebellion.
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Kate is a Senior Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change
Institute, where she teaches on the Masters in Environmental Change
and Management. She is also Professor of Practice at Amsterdam
University of Applied Sciences.
Over the past 25 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.
She holds a first class BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and
an MSc in Economics for Development, both from Oxford University. She
has been awarded honorary doctorates by the University of York, KU
Leuven, and Business School Lausanne. She is a member of the Club of
Rome and currently serves on the World Health Organisation Council on
the Economics of Health for All.
Kate has written extensively for media including The Guardian, The New
Statesman, Newsweek.com, and Wired.com, and has contributed to many
radio programmes 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”.
She blogs at
www.kateraworth.com and tweets @kateraworth.