Andrew Simms, policy director and head of climate change and energy, New Economics Foundation (nef).
Andrew is the author of Ecological Debt: Global warming and the wealth of nations (2009) as well as numerous other publications about human development and the environment.
He is co-editor of Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth? (2008), and author of Tescopoly: How one shop came out on top and why it matters (2007).
Andrew studied at the LSE and has worked for a variety of development and environmental organisations, including Oxfam and the International Institute for Environment and Development and has been a regular contributor to the International Red Cross’s annual World Disasters Report. He is a board member of Greenpeace UK and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Europe. He is also a member of the Green New Deal Group.
Previously, Andrew led campaigns for the development agency Christian Aid which included being one of the original organisers and leading advocates for the Jubilee 2000 Coalition debt relief campaign, the precursor to the Make Poverty History campaign.
His work at nef is currently focused on climate change, our increasing global interdependence and what that means for different models of economic development. He has written reports on issues ranging from climate change, to globalisation and localisation, debt and ecological debt, corporate accountability, and genetic engineering and food security. His work on local economies and report on Clone Town Britain defined a phenomenon of the homogenizing effect of some big businesses, and introduced a new term into the language.
Andrew is the author of Ecological Debt: Global warming and the wealth of nations (2009) as well as numerous other publications about human development and the environment.
He is co-editor of Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth? (2008), and author of Tescopoly: How one shop came out on top and why it matters (2007).
Andrew studied at the LSE and has worked for a variety of development and environmental organisations, including Oxfam and the International Institute for Environment and Development and has been a regular contributor to the International Red Cross’s annual World Disasters Report. He is a board member of Greenpeace UK and The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) Europe. He is also a member of the Green New Deal Group.
Previously, Andrew led campaigns for the development agency Christian Aid which included being one of the original organisers and leading advocates for the Jubilee 2000 Coalition debt relief campaign, the precursor to the Make Poverty History campaign.
His work at nef is currently focused on climate change, our increasing global interdependence and what that means for different models of economic development. He has written reports on issues ranging from climate change, to globalisation and localisation, debt and ecological debt, corporate accountability, and genetic engineering and food security. His work on local economies and report on Clone Town Britain defined a phenomenon of the homogenizing effect of some big businesses, and introduced a new term into the language.
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