Founding Member Profile – Julie Richardson


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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