Name: Julie Richardson
Title: Senior Lecturer, Economics
Organisation: Schumacher College
Brief profile:
- Senior lecturer in the Economics for Transition at Schumacher College
- Director of Schumacher Worldwide
- A founding Trustee of the Transition Network – an international community movement for transition to a high well-being, low carbon futures, beyond fossil fuel dependency
- Having taught ecological economics and international development at the Universities of London and Sussex
- Having worked in sustainable development for over 20 years in Africa, Asia, Latin America and Europe (This experience changed her view of ‘development’ – believing there is much we can learn from the wisdom of other cultures about sustainable livelihoods and restoring healthy relationship between human society and nature. )
- Having applied systems thinking and complexity science to different aspects of sustainability – including sustainable design, organizational change and environmental policy