The Greening of the Mediteranean Economy: Green Economics

About Dr. Enrico TezzaDr. Michael BriguglioMichelle Gale D'OliveiraMiriam KennetSofia Amaral

Sofia Amaral is an Economist from NOVA School of Business and Economics Portugal and the London School of Economics. Her field of interests include green economics and sustainable management and she edited our book The Greening of the Global Economy as well as running our conference in 2013 at Oxford University. Michael Briguglio lectures at the Department of Sociology of the University of Malta. His main interests are environment social movements social policy and politics with particular emphasis on NGOs and their role in society. He is also very active in Malta's environmental movement and has been the leader of the Greens in Malta. He has written regularly in our Green Economics academic journal over many years. Marie Briguglio lectures at the Economics Department Faculty of Economics Management and Accounts at the University of Malta Georgios N. Diakoulakis is from Athens Greece and Sweden specialising in environmental economics & management at the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU). He has been an active member of AIESEC one of the biggest student non-profit organizations participating in many events and conferences. He also has presented on Green Economics at our Oxford University Conferences. Michelle S. Gale de Oliveira is a director of the Green Economics Institute UK. She is a member of the Law School of the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) holding an MA in Human Rights Law with a focus on Islamic Law Peace-Building and Developing Countries. Founder of the Gender Progress Consortium she holds degrees in Political Science and International Relations from Richmond the American International University in London (RAIUL) and is currently deputy editor of 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 Human Rights Environmental and Social Justice Gender Equity International Development and Green Economics internationally. Recently she ran a conference on women's unequal pay and poverty in Reading UK lectured at the Oxford University Club on the human rights of land reform lectured on green economics in Berlin at retreats in Glastonbury UK and is a regular speaker at international conferences. She has appeared in the media in Africa Europe and Latin America. Michelle is a member of the Human Rights Lawyers Association the Law Society of England and Wales Human Rights Lawyers Group the London Middle East Institute. In 2010/2011 she was a delegate to Conference of Parties (COP15/16) in Copenhagen and Cancun and in 2012 led a delegation to RIO+20 where she ran three side events on green economics. 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. Miriam Kennet is a specialist in Green Economics she is the Co-Founder and is CEO of the Green Economics Institute. She also founded and edits the first Green Economics academic journal in the world the International Journal of Green Economics and she has been credited with creating the academic discipline of Green Economics. Green Economics has been recently described by the Bank of England as one of the most vibrant and healthy areas of economics at the moment. Having researched at Oxford University Oxford Brookes and South Bank University she is a member of Mansfield College Oxford University and the Environmental Change Institute. She has taught lectured and spoken at Universities and events all over Europe from Alicante to Oxford and Bolzano and to government officials from Montenegro and Kosovo to The UK Cabinet Office Transport Department National Government School and Treasury and spoken in Parliaments from Scotland to Austria and The French Senat and Estonia. She is also a regular and frequently speaks at public events of all kinds and after dinner speaker this week advising in the Uk Parliament and the Bank of England and in Brussels on the Eurozone crisis the high speed rail and the general economics situation. She is also very active in spreading Green Economics in Asia China and all round Africa where people find it may be one of the beacons of hope at the moment in an age of Austerity and Cuts as it provides a completely new way of looking at the world. Her work is very practical and she worked in factories and engineering for many years in the past. She is on the Assembly of the Green European Foundation and also on the steering group of the European Network of Political Foundations. She has a delegation to the UNFCC COP Kyoto Climate Change Conferences and headed up a delegation to RIO + 20 Earth Summit: Greening the Economy in RIO Brazil. She regularly speaks on TV around Europe most recently in Belgium and Estonia and this year the BBC has made a special programme about her life and work. She runs regular conferences at Oxford University about Green Economics and this year has run 8 events from Youth in Action for Young People from Egypt involved in the revolution People from FYRO Macedonia Italy and other countries as well as the Green Built Environment The Greening of China as the Chinese government is very interested in her work Womens Unequal Pay and poverty Green Economics and Methodology truth fact and reality with critical realism and several other events. Publishing regularly and having over 100 articles papers and other publications including Green Economics:Voices of Africa The Green Economics Reader Handbook of Green Economics: A Practitioners Guide The Green Built Environment Women's Unequal Pay and Poverty Green Economics and Climate Change as well as a new chapter on the green built environment and climate change for Wileys publishers in Lamond Hammond and Proverbs. She also publishes in scientific papers including the Latvian National Scientific Papers and Journals for example. She has been featured in the Harvard Economics Review and Wall Street Journal as a leader. Recently she was named one of 100 most powerful women in the world by the Charity One World Action for her work developing Green Economics and Womens' empowerment and also The Honour Award from the Minister in Luxembourg at the Green Business Summit. Ryota Koike is a researcher from Japan and he analyses post-Fukushima Japanese energy policies. He has a broad range of academic interests from peace development and environmental and nuclear issues. He is a regular speaker and a trainer in workshops and a popular lecturer on green economics and energy policy and was co author of our book Green Economics and Energy Policies (2012). Professor Dr Maria Alejandra Madi holds a PhD in Economics. She works at the intersection between macroeconomics finance and socio-economic development. Retired Professor at the State University of Campinas Brazil she is currenty Director of the Ordem dos Economistas do Brasil and Counselor at the Conselho Regional de Economia - SP. Besides her participation as co-author in chapter books edited by the Global Labor University she is a regular author with the Green Economics Institute. Stefano Moncada is at the Institute for European Studies at the University of Malta Wilhelm Schmid is an economist from Austria who worked at the Green Economics Institute recently and edited our academic journal and our The Greening of the Mediterranean Book as well as writing for many of our policy papers. He work is focused on the field of economics or politics focusing on the possibilities to improve peoples life considering their well- being as the goal of economic activities. He is an Economist from the University of Vienna and his special interests are: - The evolution of top incomes in the United States from 1980 until 2007 - why are the rich always getting richer?and Energy security in the European Union - Can you supply what we demand? Hayal Ayca Simsek is from Dokuz Eylul University Department of Public Finance. She received PhD degree on Fiscal Policy in 2003. Her fields of interest are: public finance; economic stabilisation; economic crisis; fiscal policies; public debt economic regulations; financial globalisation; the role of government in economy. Nevzat Simsek is from Dokuz Eylul University Department of Economics. He received PhD degree on International Economics in 2005. His fields of interest are: foreign trade (new trade theory intra-industry trade); energy economics; nonrenewable resources and conservation; renewable resources and conservation environmental management; prices business fluctuation and cycles; aggregate productivity; macroeconomic aspects of international trade and finance development planning and policy; regulation and industrial policy. Alberto Truccolo is Italian and specialises in stylish and contemporary recycling mechanisms and products. He is aiming to become a Green Economist and has founded a start up recycling company using modern and attractive design innovations. Dr Enrico Tezza is a senior training specialist and has a background in social research and evaluation studies. After a career in the Italian Ministry of Labour and local public institutions he joined the International Labour Organisation in Turin in 1992. He is labour market advisor for the Green Economics Institute. Subjects covered vary from training policy to employment and active labour market measures. His current focus interest is on social dialogue for green jobs. His main publication was Evaluating Social Programmes: the relevance of relationships and his latest publications include Dialogue for Responsible Restructuring and Green Labour Market for Transitions. Dr Jeffrey Turk has a doctorate in particle physics from Yale University and after working as a physicist at the European Laboratory for Particle Physics (CERN) gaining an MA in transition economics at the Central European University in Budapest and then a DPhil in contemporary European Studies from the University of Sussex. He is a research fellow at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts where he researches realist biography and European Policy. He ran a research conference at the University of Leuwen on critical realist narrative biographical methods and this events findings have now been published as a book. He has produced many articles on Green Economics and methodological innovation for our academic journal and books.