Green Growth and Community Wealth Creation Joe Guinan, Helen Mountford, Martin O’Neill, Sara Reis, Per Espen Stoknes and Kate Rogers (Chair)

Joe Guinan is Vice President of Strategy and Programs at The Democracy Collaborative and Executive Director of the Next System Project. His focus is on political economy and economic system change, and he is co-author (with Martin O’Neill) of The Case for Community Wealth Building (Polity, 2020) and (with Christine Berry) of People Get Ready! Preparing for a Corbyn Government (O/R Books, 2019), which was named one of the Guardian’s best politics books of the year. A former journalist, he was previously a Program Director at the Aspen Institute, a Fellow at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, and a consultant to the William & Flora Hewlett Foundation. He writes regularly for an array of progressive outlets, is a frequently cited expert on the new economics in major news media, serves on several non-profit boards, and is a commissioning editor of the journal Renewal.  

Helen Mountford is the Vice President for Climate and Economics at WRI. The Climate team helps policymakers, businesses and civil society in countries around the world and through international collaboration to identify and advance the deep structural shifts needed to successfully address climate change, while the Economics team undertakes economic analysis as appropriate to strengthen work across WRI. Helen is also Program Director for the New Climate Economy (NCE) project, the flagship initiative of the Global Commission on the Economy and Climate that provides independent and authoritative evidence on actions which can both strengthen economic performance and reduce the risk of dangerous climate change. She was previously Deputy Director of Environment for the OECD (Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development) where she advised governments on policy reforms, and oversaw work on green fiscal reform, climate change finance and economics, fossil fuel subsidy reforms, green growth, water pricing, biodiversity incentive measures, and economy-environment outlooks and modelling. 

Martin O’Neill is a Senior Lecturer in Political Philosophy at the University of York, UK. He moved across to the Department of Philosophy in 2018, having taught in the Department of Politics at York since 2010. Martin works on a number of issues at the intersection of political philosophy, political economy, and public policy. He is the co-editor of Property-Owning Democracy: Rawls and Beyond (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012) and Taxation: Philosophical Perspectives (Oxford University Press, 2018), and is the co-author (with Joe Guinan) of The Case for Community Wealth Building (Polity Press, 2019). Martin often writes for non-academic audiences, and his writing has appeared in The Big Issue, The New Statesman, Boston Review, and the Guardian. 

Sara Reis is Head of Research and Policy at the Women’s Budget Group (WBG). Sara is currently coordinating WBG’s work on a Feminist Green New Deal, the local data project, and the impact of Covid-19 on women. Since joining WBG in 2017, she has been involved in various projects including research on female poverty, funding for the women’s sector, affordable housing, and economic circumstances of migrant women in the UK. Sara has a PhD in Politics from the University of Sheffield.

Kate Rogers is Head of Sustainability and Co-Head of Charities at Cazenove Capital (part of the Schroders Group), with considerable experience in managing investments on behalf of charities and foundations globally. She is an advocate of equality, social mobility and refugee rights, and was a Women in Investment Award Winner in 2018.

Per Espen Stoknes is a psychologist with a PhD in Economics, a TED Global speaker, and serves as the Director of Centre for Sustainability and Energy at the Norwegian Business School. An Associate Professor with the School’s Department of Law and Governance, he is an experienced foresight facilitator and academic, who is also a serial entrepreneur, including co-founding clean-tech company GasPlas. He is the author of several books, including Tomorrow's Economy: A Guide to Creating Healthy Green Growth, Learning from the Future, Money & Soul and the “Outstanding Academic Title of 2015” award winning book: What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming. He is a serving member of the Norwegian Parliament.