Beyond GDP
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Session Description
Location: Founders Room
For social and environmental challenges to gain the policy attention they deserve, countries need to feel competitive pressure not just to increase economic growth, but also to deliver sustainable improvement in the lives of their citizens. Come learn about a new global benchmarking initiative that will provide a tool for setting priorities, measuring progress, and increasing the sense of urgency needed to sustain action. This initiative will be implemented through a network of global, regional, and local institutions committed to researching and promoting innovative approaches to improving well-being.
Time & Location
Time:
11:30 - 13:00, Thursday, March 29, 2012
BST
Speakers
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If you have heard of “footprint”, as in carbon or ecological footprint, you already met Mathis Wackernagel. He created this metric with his PhD advisor 30 years ago. Then he co-founded Global Footprint Network, a sustainability think-tank, known for its annual calculations comparing each country’s…
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Chairperson, Viva Trust
Roberto Artavia is Chairman of VIVA Trust and of Fundación Latinoamérica Posible. He´s also President of the Board of INCAE Business School; Vice Chairman of the Social Progress Imperative and co-author of the 2013 report of the Social Progress Index. He was the founding Director of the Latin…
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Michael Green is Chief Executive Officer of the Social Progress Imperative. An economist by training, he is co-author (with Matthew Bishop of ‘The Economist’) of Philanthrocapitalism: How Giving Can Save the World and The Road from Ruin: A New Capitalism for a Big Society. Previously Michael…
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Dr. Martin Burt is social entrepreneur who has developed two social innovations: the financially self-sufficient agricultural high school model and the Poverty Stoplight, a new poverty metric and coaching methodology that is currently being implemented by more than 510,000 families and 850…
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Research Director, Social Progress Imperative
Amy Wares is Research Director at the Social Progress Imperative. A specialist in international development and competitiveness, she has worked for more than a decade with governments, non-profit organizations and consulting firms to design activities that improve the competitiveness of…