Meet our team
Our interdisciplinary international team of core members and associates is currently being established.
Core Team
Tone Smith
Managing Director
Training
Human Geography, Ecological Economics
Background
Work experience includes Statistics Norway, the OECD and the Austrian Ministry of Sustainability. A freelance writer, speaker and independent scholar, and university lecturer. Co-founder of Rethinking Economics Norway and Degrowth Norway (Vekstfri Norge). ESEE Vice-President.
Clive L. Spash
Research Director
Training
Economics, Public Policy, Interdisciplinary Studies
Background
Work experience includes university posts in several countries, professorships UK & Austria, senior civil servant Australia. A researcher, academic writer, and environmental activist. Former editor of Environmental Values and Environment & Planning C.
Associates
Frederic Hache
Associate
Training
Private Finance, EU Law, Public Policy
Background
Executive director Green Finance Observatory. Work experience includes currency derivatives salesperson in Paris & London, policy analysis work for NGOs and university lecturer France. Research covers financialisation of Nature, carbon markets and biodiversity credits and offsets.
Corinna Dengler
Associate
Training
Heterodox Economics, Feminist Theory, Development Studies
Background
Asst. Professor, Inst. for Spatial & Social-Ecological Transformations, WU Vienna. Researcher & lecturer Germany, Austria & Spain. Feminist ecological economist & degrowth scholar activist. Co-founder Feminisms & Degrowth Alliance (FaDA); vice-chair Netzwerk Vorsorgendes Wirtschaften; Assc. Ed. Environmental Values
John F. O’Neill
Associate
Training
Analytical Philosophy, Environmental Values
Background
Professor of political economy Univ. of Manchester and previously at Lancaster, Sussex & Wales. Editorial roles Environmental Values, New Political Economy. Research and writing on markets, urban green space, environmental values & policy, biodiversity, climate justice, well-being & ethics.
Hanne Svarstad
Associate
Training
Sociology, Political Ecology, Development Studies
Background
Professor, Oslo Metropolitan Univ. (OsloMet). Previously at Centre for Development & the Environment, Univ. Oslo, and Norwegian Institute for Nature Research. Research and writing on land & resource use conflicts & discourses, neo-colonialism, climate & environmental injustice, green transformation strategies, and critical education.
Hubert Buch-Hansen
Associate
Training
Political Economy,
Transformation Theory
Background
Assoc. Professor, Univ. Roskilde. Previously at Copenhagen Business School. Degrowth theorist and practitioner. Everyday activist. Co-founder and director of Refillery Aps. Research and writing on sustainability transformations, critical realist philosophy and corporate networks. Co-creator of the deep transformation theory.
Iana Buch-Hansen
Associate
Training
Economics,
Business,
Transformation Theory,
Autoethnograph
Background
Guest researcher, Roskilde Univ. Previously postdoc Unin. Umeå and Aalto. Degrowth theorist, practitioner and activist. Co-founder and co-director of Refillery Aps. Research and writing on sustainability transformations, simple & zero-waste living, critical realist philosophy. Co-creator of the deep transformations theory.
Ernest Aginer
Associate
Training
Analytical Philosophy, Environmental Values
Background
Post-doc researcher Mainstreaming Social Ecological Sufficiency (MaSES) Project, Social-Ecological Systems Institute, Univ. Lüneburg. Board Member International Society for Ecological Economics. Co-editor and lead author APCC reports. Research covers, sufficiency, utopias, health-environment nexus, poverty, policy integration, pluralism in economics.
Naděžda Johanisová
Associate
Training
Sociology, Political Ecology, Development Studies
Background
Asst. Professor, Masaryk Univ., Dept. of Environmental Studies. Member of Community Economies Institute. Teaching, writing and translations linked to critical and ecological economics, degrowth, community economies, eco-social enterprises and history of co-operatives.
Marco Vianna Franco
Associate
Training
Ecological Economics, Economic History & Thought, Engineering
Background
Lecturer in Economics at Goldsmiths, Univ. of London. Research & writing on ecological economic thought, energetics with special interest in German and Russian ideas. Associate editor Review of the History of Economic Thought and Methodology..
Sarah Ware
Associate
Training
Urban Planning, Governance & Participation, Social Ecological Economics
Background
Post-doctoral researcher Central European Univ. Co network organiser Municipal Degrowth and eco-social policy & practice (ESPPRIT). Urban planning practitioner and degrowth activist. Research and writing on(eco-)feminism, radical democracy and insurgent planning practices.
Ulrich Brand
Associate
Training
Political Science, Economics, Business Administration
Background
Professor of international politics, Univ. of Vienna. Member of the Latin American Working Group “Alternatives to Development” and the Global Working Group “Beyond Development”. Research and writing on critical social & state theory, the crisis of liberal capitalism, imperial mode of living, social-ecological transformations, Latin America.
Vincent Liegey
Associate
Training
Engineering, Degrowth, Ecological Economics
Background
Interdisciplinary researcher, consultant, lecturer & activists. Coordinator of Cargonomia social cooperative, applying degrowth research to local food supply in Budapest. Degrowth community activist. Research and writing on degrowth relating to public policy, political strategy, conviviality, low-tech, commons, unconditional autonomy allowance.