Green Economics: Voices of Africa: Green Economics:a Beacon of Hope for Africa

About Mahalet MekonenMiriam Kennet

List of Contributors Priscilla Alderson is Professor of Childhood Studies Institute of Education University of London. Her sociology research includes work on children's rights competence and consent the views and experiences of children with long-term illness or disability and services for them ethics and methods of social research. She teaches on an MA about the sociology of childhood and children's rights. Details of 300 publications are on www.ioe.ac.uk/ssru. Rosita Bujokaite is at Vytautas Magnus University in Kaunas Lithuania. She specialises macroeconomic analysis and economic politics. Her main topics of interest are related to economic crisis phenomenon and crisis management as well as the economic anti-crisis politics. She is participating in the activity of Lithuanian NGO Kaunas Club The Economists and is a member of Lithuanian economic association (LEA). She is a member and economics advisor to the Green Economics Institute. Dr Susan Canney is a lecturer at Oxford University and a researcher of elephants and biodiversity in Mahli. Graciela Chichilnisky created the formal theory of sustainable development and the concept of Basic Needs (Chichilnisky1976 1996 1997). She is the architect of the Kyoto Protocol's carbon market and acted as a lead author of the IPCC which received the 2007 Nobel Prize. Dr. Chichilnisky is a Professor of Economics and Statistics and Director of Columbia Consortium for Risk Management (CCRM) at Columbia University New York. Eleni Courea lives in Cyprus but is of Greek English Scottish and Indian background. She brings a young scholar's perspective to questions of the importance of geography to green economics. She has participated in several conferences around the world including World Individual Public Speaker and Debating Championships in Brisbane Australia (2011) and The Hague International Model United Nations in the Netherlands (2011). She also organised the Youth Voice Conference in Cyprus (2011). 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. . Volker Heinemann is an economist who studied at the Universities of Goettingen Kiel and Nottingham. He is a specialist in international and developing economics monetary economics and macroeconomic theory and policy. He is author of the book Die Oekonomie der Zukunft The Economy of the Future a book outlining a green structure for a contemporary economy that accepts the pressing changes that are needed to outdated current economic thinking. He is co-founder and Director and CFO of the Green Economics Institute a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales trained at PWC and other major Institutions and is a Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Green Economics. He is a popular radio and TV speaker in Europe and a former Die Gruenen Councillor. Kristina Jociute is an Economist interested in analysis and policy of macroeconomics and is at at Vytautas Magnus University in Lithuania. She is a member of both the Association of Lithuanian Economists (LEA) and the NGO's Kaunas club Economists (Lithuania) and is an associated member of The Green Economics Institute (UK). Her interests include human welfare and well-being poverty issues behavioural economics sustainable development and macroeconomics. She is executive editor of the International Journal of Green Economics and a manager of the Green Economics Institute. Miriam Kennet is an economist environmental scientist and member of Mansfield College Oxford University the Environmental Change Institute Oxford University and the Oxford Union and IPCC. She co-edited Green Economics beyond Supply and Demand to Meeting People's Needs and author of over 100 articles on green economics and stakeholder theory corporate social responsibility and economics transformation green jobs geo engineering and women's unequal pay and poverty climate change poverty prevention and biodiversity economics. CEO director and co-founder of the Green Economics Institute a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS) and the founder/ editor of the International Journal of Green Economics and The Green Economist she is a regular trainer speaker lecturer and adviser to governments including the National Government School in the UK. She lectures and speaks on the international stage and many universities around the world and has appeared on radio and TV in many countries most recently Estonia and Spain ItalyBelgium and the UK and as well as running a very lively international interns college and regular influentialinternational green economics conferences and has her own delegation to the Kyoto Process. A UK government recommended reviewer for the IPCC and is reviewer and writer for the International Labour Organisation. She is on the Assembly of the Green European Foundation and on the steering group of the European Network of Political Foundations. . 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. Pauline Mouret is a student at AgroParisTech a famous French engineering school specialising in environmental sciences and agronomy. She is particularly interested in environmental and agricultural issues. She has worked on agricultural development in Cameroon. Last year she did a two-month project to study the efficiency of green roofs to protect urban biodiversity in the ecology centre at Orsay South Paris University. Isayvani Naicker is currently completing a Doctorate in 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 has work experience in the environmental and sustainable development field in Africa. Grit Silberstein is an Economist trained at the University of Gottingen in Germany. Born in Germany and raised in Ecuador she considers both countries as home. Since 2010 she has been working at the Green Economics Institute advising on Economic Issues. She is a researcher of International Economics at the University of Gottingen in Germany specializing in development economics and at Nottingham University in the UK. Her interests include matters of sustainable development in a European development aid and the European Union. She also works with Galextur in the Galapagos Islands promoting biodiversity. Chidi Magnus Onuoha a Development Economist Lecturer Author and Policy Analyst. He served as a Research Expert during the United Nations Industrial Organization (UNIDO)/ Institute of African Studies Oxford University UK collaborative effort on the survey of Nigeria's manufacturing sector in 2004. He is a Member Climate Change Roundtable of Nigeria's Federal Ministry of Environment. He is also a member Editorial Board of the Green Economist - an International Journal of Green Economics Institute of the United Kingdom. He has also delivered research papers nationally and internationally among them are: Sustainable Development and Poverty Reduction in Nigeria(July 2008) at Green Economics International Conference at Mansfield College Oxford University UK and Economics of Green Wall Sahara Program (Nov2008) at Green Economics retreat at Earth Spirit Somerset England Prospects of Renewable Energy and Clean Development Mechanism(CDM) Projects in the Green Wall Sahara Africa Program(July 2009) at the Africa Energy Week in Cape town South Africa Climate Science Development Studies: Prospects of influencing curriculum studies in Nigeria's higher institutions (Dec.2009) at the Climate Change Curriculum Development Awareness Forum at the University of Nigeria Nsukka in collaboration with Green Economics Nigeria and Global System for Analysis Research and Training(START) Washington USA. From Economic Growth to Sustainable Development: Challenges and Opportunities for effective Policy Responses (Nov. 2011) at the Africa Technology and Policy Study ( ATPS) Network in Mombasa Kenya. He is presently the Executive Director Green Economics Nigeria His major research interest includes Poverty Green Economics and Fiscal Issues and currently researching on Africa: The Making of a Green Economy.