Schedule

A full day of speakers, workshops and connecting opportunities, bringing together interesting and interested voices in the new economics field.

Timings:

Wednesday 13 September 2023
9:00 - 17:30 (drinks until 19:00)

Alongside your Eventbrite ticket, we kindly ask all attendees to fill in a short registration form. This is a requirement to confirm your attendance and secure your place. It’s also where you can let us know how to best to support you during the event.

Venue:

Nieuwe Instituut
Museumpark 25, 3015 CB Rotterdam

Livestream:

If you are unable to attend in person, we will be livestreaming Panels taking place in the Auditorium (marked as LS) for anyone who would like to watch online via this link: http://stream.nieuweinstituut.nl  

9:00 Breakfast - Making Connections

Informal breakfast and coffee  

9:50 Welcome and Keynote

Moving from the margins to the mainstream: where are we now? (LS)

Katherine Trebeck

The New Economy field* is gaining some momentum, or that is how it can feel after events like the Beyond Growth conference in Brussels in June.  But is it anywhere close to becoming mainstream? Katherine Trebeck will share some reflections on the field, where we are now and what we might want to consider.

*We think of the field as including the wellbeing economy, the solidarity economy, the post-growth agenda, the social economy, ecological economics and so forth. Each of these might have some nuance and distinction but are all trying to shift us towards a life-centric economy where people and the planet can thrive.

10:30 Panel

How do we broaden our 'tent' and take others with us? (LS)

Kelly Clark (chair) | Jakob Hafele | Ritse Erumi | Tom Brookes

We often discuss the need for rebuilding the economy to make it work for nature and all people rather than only a few – yet, not “all people” are involved in, or supportive of, the work that we do. In fact, many of the people whom the new economy movement is aiming to represent, who we think would benefit from redesigning the economy, are indifferent to or actively opposing the new economy agenda. The panel will discuss how we might broaden the ‘tent’ and bring others with us.

11:15 Break 

11:45 Panel

Beyond Eurocentrism: how do we avoid re-patterning the past? (LS)

Carolina Escobar-Tello (chair) Ashish Kothari | Azul Carolina Duque | Ana Gomez

A post-growth world (or new economy) cannot be laid on colonial foundations. In this session, each of the panel members will share their response to this statement and work they are doing in relation to it, where else they see promising signs/seeds of new patterns and ideas about how the wider field can hold ourselves accountable.

12:30 Lunch 

A seasonal vegetarian buffet. Please let us know if you have any dietary requirements when filling out your registration form.

13:30 Workshops Rd 1

Choose between one of three workshops led by our partners, or participate in making or connecting opportunities.

Leadership in a time of poly-crisis - with Aysegul Gurerk and Richard Bellars

What does leadership require in a time of poly-crisis? An interactive session on ways to 'lead beyond authority' and work together to create change beyond our direct circles of control. Run by the team behind the New Economy Leaders Academy'

Fiscal Futures (LS) - with Sofia Hurtado Epstein, Katie Kedward, Jean Saldanha, Janek Steitz and Sarah-Jayne Clifton

How do we pay for a rapid, just transition to a climate-safe global economy? Total global wealth is $454.4 trillion. Yet most governments across the world are still failing to fund essential public services, let alone make the large-scale investments needed to decarbonise their economies in a way that protects workers and communities. Many actors say that ‘mobilising’ more private finance into green infrastructure and public services is the answer. This session will explore whether we can rely on private finance to fund the transition and, if not, what needs to happen instead.

Policy dreaming: valuing care as the heart of a new economy - with Helen Hester and Cassie Robinson

This session will start with provocations from Cassie Robinson and Helen Hester describing why this is such a vital conversation and all that it encompasses. The session will then be used to explore the current landscape of initiatives that are centring care at the heart of new economies and look at ways we can encourage more initiatives as well as ensure that the existing ones have greater influence. This will inform the design of a Care Lab that Partners for a New Economy plans to run in early 2024 to encourage more initiatives around care-centred economies to be on the table.

14:40 Move spaces

14:50 Workshops Rd 2

Choose between one of three workshops led by our partners, or participate in making or connecting opportunities.

Narrative Led Systems Change - with Culture Hack Labs

A practical exploration of how we can de-code and recode cultural narratives to build new economic paradigms. In this workshop you will learn and apply how Culture Hack Labs works to shift dominant cultural narratives that create and justify ecological breakdown, extraction, and inequality.

New Economies, AI Systems & Big Tech (LS) - with Naomi Alderman and Rachel Coldicutt

Why the New Economy field needs to engage with AI systems, the power of big tech and how they concentrate wealth and power.This is a conversation between two brilliant women who have a deep understanding of technology - and of how it continues to have an impact on our cultures and on society as a whole. They are foreseers of the future and will help us understand why the new economy field can’t keep turning away from the power of big tech and AI - however intangible, unwieldy and overwhelming it can feel. The conversation will uncover ideas for what the new economy field can do and where to pay more attention.

The local-global connection - with Anne-Marie Codur and Michael Weatherhead

How can we re-localise economic systems within the globalised economy we inhabit? Our economy has focused on efficiency at the cost of resilience for too long. Many suggest re-localisation of the economy is the answer to redressing that imbalance. But which sectors of the economy should we relocalise? What parts of the economy should remain global? And how do we take what are often marginalised examples of local economies into the mainstream? Join us to tackle together these challenging questions and hear what answers and solutions emerge.

16:00 Break 

16:30 Panel 

Planetary intelligence and more-than-human worlds: how can new economies go beyond an anthropocentric worldview? (LS)

Apolline Roger (chair) | Tariq Al-Olaimy | Shrishtee Bajpai | Alnoor Ladha

More-than human governance, rights of nature, Public-Planet Partnerships, regenerative multi-species collaborations, planetary intelligences - there is a growing field of practices that are using new (and very old ways) of recognising and valuing that the world is far more alive than we allow. In this session each of the speakers will share the work they are doing in relation to these practices and how this connects to the ways in which they are building, and viewing, new economies- practices that weave, heal and reconstitute the web of life by placing the more-than-human at its centre.

17:15 Closing Comments 

Kelly Clark | Sonny Bardhan

17:30 Drinks 

Drinks will be served in the café and terrace areas

18:30 Close 

Speakers and Workshop Hosts

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  • Tariq Al-Olaimy is co-founder and managing director of an ecosystem of social and planetary enterprises with impact in over 100 countries, including Public-Planet Partnerships, a framework facilitating regenerative multi-species collaborations; 3BL Associates, a people + planet strategy consultancy that has advised Nobel Peace Prize laureates and nominees, governments, and corporations on systems transformation; Diversity on Board, a platform promoting equity and responsible leadership on MENA region boards; Recipes for Wellbeing, supporting young changemakers and impact organizations wholebeing; and postgrowth.earth, a knowledge base for future-fit social innovation within planetary boundaries.

    Tariq has held advisory, board, and co-chair roles with the UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration (UNEP & FAO), UN Climate Change High-Level Champions, UNESCO, World Economic Forum, 1t.org

  • Ayşegül is the Founding Director of Common Purpose Turkey. Ayşegül attended the Middle East Technical University in Ankara and completed her Master’s degree in Educational Supervision at Pace University, New York. She has worked at the British Council, and has presented her works on English education and cultural studies at international conferences. During her time at Common Purpose Turkey, Ayşegül has delivered Meridian for senior leaders and Frontrunner for the new recruits of a leading telecommunications company based in Turkey. She has also delivered bespoke programmes, including those covering Diversity and Inclusion.

  • Sarah joined ECU in March 2021. She was formerly Director of Jubilee Debt Campaign (now Debt Justice). Before that, she led policy development, campaigns and coalition-building on climate change, corporate accountability and trade for Friends of the Earth UK and Friends of the Earth International. She has a BA in geography from the University of Oxford and a Masters in international politics from SOAS. She is a founding board member of Tax Justice UK, and a trustee of Transparency International and the Barry Amiel Norman Melburn Trust.

  • Naomi Alderman grew up in London and attended Oxford University and UEA.

    Her most recent novel The Power was the winner of the 2017 Baileys’ Women‘s Prize for Fiction. It was longlisted for the 2017 Orwell Prize and chosen as one of the best books of the year by the New York Times, the Washington Post, the LA Times, NPR, Entertainment Weekly and the San Francisco Chronicle. The Power topped Barack Obama’s list of his favourite books from 2017 and has been translated into more than 30 languages.

    Naomi was lead writer on the alternate reality game Perplex City, and has worked as a games writer for over a decade. In 2011 she wrote the Doctor Who novel, Borrowed Time. She is the lead writer of the smartphone app and podcast The Walk. In 2012 she co-created the top-selling fitness game and audio adventure Zombies, Run! – it has been downloaded millions of times and continues to be a market-leader.

    Her first novel, Disobedience, was published in ten languages and has recently been adapted into a feature-length film by Oscar-winning director Sebastián Lelio, starring Rachel Weisz and Rachel McAdams. In 2006 she won the Orange Award for New Writers. In 2007 she was named Sunday Times’ Young Writer of the Year, and one of Waterstones’ 25 Writers for the Future. Her prize-winning short fiction has appeared in numerous publications and anthologies.

    Naomi presents Science Stories – a programme about the history of science on BBC Radio 4 – and is a member of the XPRIZE Sci-Fi Advisory Council. She has been mentored by Margaret Atwood as part of the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, and in April 2013 she was named one of Granta’s Best British Novelists in their once-a-decade list. She is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

  • Ritse Erumi is a program officer on the Future of Work(ers) team. She leads Ford’s work on advancing more fair economies through new approaches to technology and innovation, narrative change, and business engagement. Ritse joined the foundation as a fellow working at the intersection of technology, economic opportunity, and equity.

    Prior to Ford, Ritse served as a strategist and advisor to civil society groups, development agencies, governments, and businesses on models for digital innovation and systemic change. As a public interest technologist, her work explores the socioeconomic implications of emerging technologies among marginalized and underserved communities.

    Ritse holds a PhD in policy and management and a masters in information systems, with a concentration in social change, innovation, and gender, from the University of Manchester.

  • Tom is the CEO and Founder of Global Strategic Communications Network (GSCC). He founded the network in 2012, building on his work as Executive Director of Strategic Communications at the European Climate Foundation. Tom is also a member of the Advisory Boards for the Climate Leadership Initiative, the Centre for Countering Digital Hate, the Energy and Climate Intelligence Unit and the Lancet Countdown.

    With over ten years of experience in climate communications, related political strategy and funder advisory capacities, Tom has in-depth knowledge of the actors and capacity needs in the space.

    Prior to joining the ECF in 2009, Tom was Director of Government Relations, Europe at Apple. He spent over a decade in communications and public affairs consultancy and started his career as a journalist.

  • Sofia is Associate Director for Fiscal Justice at Open Society Foundations, based in London, where she had led work on advancing green and inclusive economic policies in the Global South. She has over ten years of experience working on economic justice with civil society organizations, international organizations and governments in Latin America and globally. Prior to joining Open Society, she was Deputy Director General for Economic Development and Infrastructure in the Mexican Ministry of Foreign Affairs, where she led economic cooperation and regional integration efforts with Central America and the Caribbean. Sofia holds a BA in Political Science and International Relations from Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economicas in Mexico City, and a Masters in Public Administration and International Development from Harvard University.

  • Roxane is a narrative researcher at Culture Hack Labs, where she has helped design the methodology for narrative reframing. Past projects have included researching narratives around climate change, the commons or the Just Transition. Together with her team at Culture Hack, she believes in the importance of decolonizing and shifting our global culture to embrace knowledge and living practices that center Life and repair our relationship to nature as well as between one another. She is also a photographer exploring themes related to exile, diasporic identities and the concept of homeland. She is based in Paris.

  • Jakob is co-founder, executive director, and head economist of ZOE. He makes use of his economic expertise to consult the European Commission, the European Parliament, national and local governments on their way to build just and sustainable economies. With over 10 years of experience as a facilitator of co-creative processes, moderator of workshops, and as an intervention design strategist he co-creates roadmaps for objective-driven political intervention strategies in participatory policy design processes.

    Jakob Hafele studied economics at the University of Heidelberg and international development at the University of Vienna. In the past he has worked as an industrial policy expert for the UN, GIZ and national governments, for the Network for Pluralism in Economics, of which he is co-founder, and for the Macroeconomic Policy Institute. In his work as an economics researcher at the University of Linz he focused on European Economic development.

  • Kelly Clark is a leading speaker, advisor and consultant, working at the convergence of systems change, climate finance and macro-economics. In this dynamic role she draws on her significant experience in leading both philanthropic and capital market efforts that unite finance with positive impact outcomes.

    Kelly is currently the Director of P4NE whilst Jo Swinson is on maternity leave.

  • Janek is a director at the Berlin-based macrofinance think tank Dezernat Zukunft, where he leads the climate and industrial policy work. Previously, he spent several years at the energy think tank Agora Energy Transition and in economic consulting. Janek received a bachelor’s degree in economics from the University of Muenster and a master’s degree in management and finance from Leipzig Graduate School of Management.

  • Founder-member, Kalpavriksh; member, many people’s movements. Taught, Indian Institute of Public Administration; coordinated India’s National Biodiversity Strategy & Action Plan, served on boards of Greenpeace International & India, ICCA Consortium; judge on International Tribunal on Rights of Nature. Helps coordinate Vikalp Sangam (www.vikalpsangam.org), Global Tapestry of Alternatives (www.globaltapestryofalternatives.org), & Radical Ecological Democracy (www.radicalecologicaldemocracy.org). Co-author/co-editor, Churning the Earth, Alternative Futures, and Pluriverse: A Post-Development Dictionary

  • Carolina leads DEAL's work on Schools & Education by co-creating with students, life-long learners, educators, curriculum designers and educational institutions an influential dynamic network of transformative educational practice that contributes to the global-wider movement of regenerative change.

    Carolina is a curious transdisciplinary educator, researcher, facilitator and grass-roots designer with seasoned experience working across industrial, product, service and systems design including the global ‘North’ and ‘South’ hemispheres. Biocentric sustainability, design for happiness & wellbeing, social innovation, pluriverse and systemic thinking shape her mindset as a pro-active agent of change. She holds an MSc in Sustainable Design from Bournemouth University and PhD in Sustainable Design from Loughborough University (UK), has lectured extensively and her work has been published in journals and international peer reviewed conference proceedings. She is currently also an Academic Visiting Fellow at the School of Design and Creative Arts, Loughborough University, UK.

  • Shrishtee Bajpai is a researcher, writer, activist from India. Her interests include environmental justice, systemic alternatives, more-than human governance and rights of nature. She is associated with Kalpavriksh (India), Vikalp Sangam, Global Tapestry of Alternatives, and Global Alliance for the Rights of Nature and other regional and international networks.

  • Alnoor is Co-founder and Executive Director of The Rules (www.therules.org), Founding Partner of Purpose (www.purpose.com) and Board Member of Greenpeace USA (www.greenpeace.org)

    Alnoor’s work focuses on the intersection of political organizing, storytelling, and technology. He is a founding member and the executive director of /The Rules (/TR), a global network of activists, organizers, designers, coders, researchers, writers, and others dedicated to changing the rules that create inequality and poverty around the world.

    /TR work with the world’s leading social movements to amplify their campaigns, build capacity, and deepen a global community of support. They also run a global thinktank, the Memetics Institute, that creates content, research, analysis, and tools to help bring more progressive ideas into the mainstream.

    Prior to /TR, he was a founding partner and the head of strategy at Purpose, an incubator for new types of social movements.

    Alnoor is a writer and speaker on new forms of activism, the structural causes of inequality, the link between climate change and poverty, and the rise of the Global South as a powerful organizing force in the transition to a post-capitalist world. He also is writing a book about the intersection of spirituality and politics.

    He is a board member of Greenpeace International USA, and a visiting lecturer at New York University (NYU), Columbia University, and the Ontario College of Art and Design (OCAD). Alnoor holds an MSc in Philosophy and Public Policy from the London School of Economics.

  • Azul Carolina Duque is a Colombian artist and educator who has been a member of the GTDF collective since 2019. Her practice weaves her training as a death doula, a mime, and an educator from the University of British Columbia. Azul is also the producer of the ‘En Cuidado da terra’ podcast series, a conversation with Indigenous Elders on the contradictions and paradoxes of modern-day environmental sustainability.

  • Katie Kedward is an economist at the UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose, with a research focus on sustainable finance. Katie started her career in capital markets at the Royal Bank of Canada, as a government bond and derivative specialist. Prior to joining UCL, she worked in green banking at ShareAction, the responsible investment NGO, and as a researcher for George Monbiot, focusing on sustainable food systems. Katie holds an MSc degree in ecological economics from the University of Leeds and a First Class degree from the University of Cambridge. She has contributed to publications such as FT Sustainable Views, LSE Business Review, Open Democracy, and Brave New Europe. Katie sits on the advisory panel for Positive Money UK, an NGO campaigning for a fair, democratic, and sustainable financial system.

  • As Chief Strategy Officer, Sonny develops and advances Omidyar Network’s corporate strategy and planning, and oversees our impact, learning, and research agendas. He also leads some of their international work and is chair of the P4NE Board.

    Sonny is a strategy, philanthropy, and investment professional with more than two decades of international experience across private, public, and social sectors.

    Prior to joining Omidyar Network in 2014, Sonny worked at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, where he developed strategy, built the investment pipeline, and originated high impact opportunities to improve children’s welfare in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Sonny previously served as an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, where he worked in both the financial institutions group and the social sector office. He began his career at Capital One, and has also worked with Innovations for Poverty Action and UnLtd.

    Sonny received an MPA in International Development from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Reynolds Fellow in social entrepreneurship. He holds an MBA with distinction from the University of Oxford and a double first class MA in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge.

  • Katherine is a political economist, writer and advocate for economic system change.

    Her roles include writer-at-large at the University of Edinburgh, consultant to the Club of Rome, a Strategic Advisor for the Centre for Policy Development, and Economic Strategy Advisor to The Next Economy.

    She co- founded the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) and also WEAll Scotland, its Scottish hub, and she instigated the group of Wellbeing Economy Governments (WEGo). Her board roles have included a range of groups such as the C40 Centre for Urban Climate Policy and Economy, the Centre for Understanding Sustainable Prosperity, and The Democracy Collaborative.

    She is a thinker-in-residence at the Australian National University’s Planetary Health Hothouse, a New Economics Senior Fellow at the ZOE Institute, and a Fellow of The Post Growth Institute. Katherine has Bachelor Degrees in Economics and in Politics (University of Melbourne) and holds a PhD in Political Science from the Australian National University.

    Her most recent book The Economics of Arrival: Ideas for a Grown Up Economy (co-authored with Jeremy Williams and published by Policy Press) was published in January 2019 and her major report Being Bold: Budgeting for Children’s Wellbeing was launched in March 2021.

  • Apolline has a legal background but her first love was interdisciplinary research in Science, Technology and Society, which she did for more than 10 years as a University researcher and lecturer. The desire to turn the most innovative ideas into practical solutions made her join ClientEarth in 2017 to lead its work on chemical pollution. In March 2023, she became the Head of ClientEarth newly created Innovation Lab. Apolline brings to the lab her capacity to bridge research and action, thoughts and deeds.

  • Rachel Coldicutt is a researcher and strategist specialising in the social impact of new and emerging technologies. She is founder and executive director of research consultancy Careful Industries and its sister social enterprise Promising Trouble.

    She was previously founding CEO of responsible technology think tank Doteveryone where she led influential and ground-breaking research into how technology is changing society and developed practical tools for responsible innovation. Prior to that, she spent almost 20 years working at the cutting edge of new technology for companies including the BBC, Microsoft, BT, and Channel 4, and was a pioneer in the digital art world. Rachel is an advisor, board member and trustee for a number of companies and charities and a member of the Ofcom Content Board.

    In 2019, Rachel was awarded an OBE in the New Year’s Honours for services for the digital society.

  • Farzana (she/her) is co-founder and Executive Co-Director of Healing Justice Ldn. Her practice works on building community health, repair and self-transformation rooted in disability justice, survivor work and trauma-informed practice working with communities of colour and other marginalised and underrepresented groups. Farzana has over 10 years of background in Youth and Community work particularly focused on arts-based education projects both in the UK and internationally. Farzana is the former creative and strategic director at Voices that Shake, bringing together young people, artists and campaigners to develop creative responses to social injustice. She ran this working at Platform London, a climate and social justice organisation working across arts, education, research and activism.

    Farzana is a trustee of International Curatorial Forum and Stuart Hall Foundation. She also sits on the advisory board of Kids of Colour.

  • Anne Marie Codur is a Franco-American scholar, educator, activist and artist, with a multicultural background. She obtained her Ph.D. in Economics from Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris and was a Post-Doctoral fellow at Harvard University and an associated researcher at GDAE, where she co-wrote several educational modules in ecological economics with Jonathan Harris. While at Harvard, she co-founded the University of the Middle East Project (UME). Dr. Codur was successively Academic Director and Executive Director of UME, until 2008. Since 2009, she has been a Senior Advisor of the International Center on Nonviolent Conflict, lecturing in the US, Europe, and the Middle East, in series of workshops dedicated to the dissemination of the methods and strategies of nonviolent action. In 2011, she resumed her affiliation with GDAE as a research associate, taking part in the editing of educational modules and chapters of the ecological economics textbook, as well as in their translation in French, to reach a broad audience of French speaking scholars and students around the world.

  • Ashanti Kunene is a social justice activist, slam poet, decolonial dialogue facilitator, published writer and the founder of Learning 2 Unlearn. She is also the Director of Pedagogy for Culture Hack Labs, leading their Rhizome Network and fellowship program.

  • Michael is currently the Developmnet lead at the Wellbeing Economy Alliance. He splits his time between Glasgow and the Lake District – both excellent locations for his wellbeing – having previously been based in South Africa and Spain where he was the International Director of the consulting arm of the New Economics Foundation, NEF.

    As an economist, Michael is an accredited SROI practitioner and trainer in multiple approaches to measuring value for money.

    Michael has drawn from the work of the Nobel economics prize winner, Elinor Ostrom, and the growing field of study of positive psychology. He holds post-grad qualifications in economics and organizational development and loves blending rigorous analysis with innovative approaches to opening up learning spaces and finding solutions.

  • Richard is a Regenerative leadership facilitator, coach and mentor. Partnering with individuals and small teams, he challenges and encourages them to embrace eco-systemic approaches, and to go deeper with a heart-centred openness to listen to and learn from each other. Richard’s career background includes business process re-engineering in more than 15 European businesses. He delivers mentoring, leadership and transition programmes in long-term partnerships with Mowgli Mentoring and Help For Heroes, for which he also continues to volunteer as a mentor. He is a board advisor to Unifying Fields Foundation and also a trustee for the London Sports Trust.

  • I define myself as a connector who is passionate about nature and ‘all living beings’. I’m passionate about creating networks and communities who collaborate and deeply believe that a just, interconnected and regenerative world is possible.

    In 2018 I stopped joining different sustainable projects around the world to go back to Spain and be part of the WEAll AMP Team. Since those initial months I have had the opportunity to learn and grow so much thanks to my colleagues and the incredible global community we have created around WEAll. Building bridges among those who believe a wellbeing economy is possible and supporting the local work through our WEAll Hubs, gives me the energy and hope I need every morning. Sharing values, philosophy, dreams and projects in the company of these communities, it’s the reassurance that we’re on the right path.

    On a more personal note, since 2022 I’m living in Galicia, northwest of Spain, to fully embrace my rural lifestyle. I’m determined to bring equality to rural areas and communities and raise awareness of their contribution to the changes we need to make.

  • Jean was previously a Senior Advisor at CIDSE, the international alliance of catholic development organizations based in Brussels. She also coordinated CIDSE’s finance advocacy for more than a decade and led the work of European and international civil society coalitions on the UN’s Financing for Development and Post-2015/SDG processes. Jean comes from Mumbai and was active in the human rights movement in India as a law student. She has a Master’s degree in International Law from the University of Utrecht, the Netherlands.