Join us at The Pavillion Room at St Antony’s College (or online) for Professor Amir Lebdioui’s book launch Survival of the Greenest. Economic Transformation in a Climate-conscious World, the book will be discussed by our distinguished guests Ann Pettifor, Luis Godoy Rueda, Richard Kozul-Wright, and Lee Harris.
Amir Lebdioui is a development economist, whose research has focused on the economic diversification of resource-dependent nations, green industrial policy and low carbon innovation, commodity value addition, and biodiversity-based development models. His work has been published in top-tier academic journals including World Development, Ecological Economics, Development and Change, the Journal of Technology Transfer, and the Review of International Political Economy. He directs the Oxford Technology & Management Centre for Development, regularly advises governments and international institutions on green industrial policy strategies, and holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
Ann Pettifor is one of the world’s most highly respected economists who have worked tirelessly to promote economic justice and financial reform. Ann is Director of PRIME – Policy Research in Macroeconomics, a consultancy firm providing advice to businesses, trade unions and civil society organizations on issues relating to global economic policymaking. She is a longstanding fellow of the New Economics Foundation, a British research group that advocates for economic, social and environmental justice. Ann is an accomplished writer who is most known for several publications, including The Coming First World Debt Crisis (2006), which correctly predicted the financial crisis of 2008. She has since published numerous books, such as The Case for the Green New Deal (2019), The Production of Money (2017), and Just Money (2014).
Luis Godoy Rueda is Associate Director of Economic Justice in Open Society Foundations, with more than a decade of experience working at the intersection of development, policy, and international affairs. Luis previously directed the Global Economic Intelligence Unit and the Data Analysis for Economic Intelligence team of the Ministry of Economy of Mexico. He has consulted and supported organizations like UN Women, UNDP, and ECLAC. Luis holds an MPA from SIPA, Columbia and an Economics degree from Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de México.
Richard Kozul-Wright is the former Director of the Globalisation and Development Strategies Division in UNCTAD and was responsible for flagship publication The Trade and Development Report. He has worked at the United Nations in both New York and Geneva, holds a Ph.D in economics from the University of Cambridge UK, and has published widely on economic issues, including in the Economic Journal, the Cambridge Journal of Economics, the Journal of Development Studies, and the Oxford Review of Economic Policy. He has co-written books and co-edited volumes on Transnational Corporations and the Global Economy, Economic Insecurity and Development, Securing Peace, Climate Protection and Development and Industrial Policy. He co-authored The case for a new Bretton Woods (2021) and Transforming Economies: Making Industrial Policy Work for Growth, Jobs and Development (2014) with the International Labour Organization.
Lee Harris is a Financial Times Moral Money Reporter covering ESG and, sustainable investment in Europe and Africa. Some of her recent work at FT includes The age of green protectionism, The case against carbon emissions as a universal metric, Why the renewables market does not work, and How green skills gap is holding back energy transition.
For those registered for online attendance, a link will be send 2 weeks and 1 day before.
