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    David Flacher

    Uni­ver­sité de tech­nolo­gie de Com­piègne, COSTECH lab
    Direc­tor of the EPOG-DN pro­gramme
    Super­vi­sor of DC2: “Which role for low-tech, com­mons-based man­u­fac­tur­ing and decen­tralised pro­duc­tion with­in the eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion per­spec­tive”

    David Flach­er is Pro­fes­sor of eco­nom­ics and Deputy Direc­tor of the inter­dis­ci­pli­nary COSTECH research lab at UTC, a lab ded­i­cat­ed to the study of tech­nol­o­gy through social sci­ences and human­i­ties. He holds an engi­neer­ing degree from Télé­com Paris and a PhD in eco­nom­ics from Uni­ver­sité Paris 9‑Dauphine — PSL. He has been Asso­ciate pro­fes­sor at Paris 13 Uni­ver­si­ty and Direc­tor of the CEPN research lab (CNRS UMR7234). He has found­ed the first EPOG Eras­mus Mundus Master’s Course in 2012. He is the direc­tor of the EPOG+ Eras­mus Mundus Joint Mas­ter Degree and of the EPOG-Unesco chair. His recent research inter­ests are in the eco­nom­ics of edu­ca­tion, the dig­i­tal com­mons and the trans­for­ma­tions of the econ­o­my in the dig­i­tal era.  He is coor­di­nat­ing the EPOG-DN project.

      Cecilia Rikap

      Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don, Head of Research at IIPP
      Mem­ber of COSTECH lab, Uni­ver­sité de Tech­nolo­gie de Com­piègne
      Super­vi­sor of DC1: “Plat­forms, big tech com­pa­nies and the eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion”

      Cecil­ia Rikap (PhD in eco­nom­ics from the Uni­ver­si­dad de Buenos Aires) is asso­ciate pro­fes­sor in Eco­nom­ics and Head of Research at the Insti­tute for Inno­va­tion and Pub­lic Pur­pose at the Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don (IIPP- UCL). Until join­ing UCL, she was a per­ma­nent Senior Lec­tur­er in Inter­na­tion­al Polit­i­cal Econ­o­my (IPE) at City, Uni­ver­si­ty of Lon­don and pro­gramme direc­tor of the BSc in IPE at the same uni­ver­si­ty. She is a tenure researcher of the CONICET, Argentina’s nation­al research coun­cil, and researcher at COSTECH lab, Uni­ver­sité de tech­nolo­gie de Compiègne.

        Nathalie Blanc

        Uni­ver­sité Paris Cité — CNRS
        Super­vi­sor of DC11: “Con­tri­bu­tion of envi­ron­men­tal NGO’s to urban eco­log­i­cal restora­tion and rewil­d­ing dynam­ics”

        Nathalie Blanc is a Research Direc­tor at the French Nation­al Cen­ter for Sci­en­tif­ic Research (CNRS) and is the Man­ag­ing Direc­tor of the Cen­ter for Earth Pol­i­tics at the Uni­ver­sité Paris Cité. A pio­neer of eco­crit­i­cism in France, she has pub­lished and coor­di­nat­ed research pro­grams on areas includ­ing hab­it­abil­i­ty, envi­ron­men­tal aes­thet­ics, lit­er­a­ture & envi­ron­ment and nature in the city.

          Razmig Keucheyan

          Uni­ver­sité Paris Cité
          Super­vi­sor of DC3: “Big Data and In Natu­ra Cal­cu­la­tion for Eco­log­i­cal Plan­ning”

          Razmig Keucheyan is pro­fes­sor of soci­ol­o­gy at the Uni­ver­sité Paris Cité. He is the author of The Left Hemi­sphere: Map­ping Crit­i­cal The­o­ry Today (Ver­so, 2014); Nature is a Bat­tle­field: Towards a Polit­i­cal Ecol­o­gy (Poli­ty, 2016); Les Besoins arti­fi­ciels: Com­ment sor­tir du con­sumérisme (La Décou­verte, 2019); and, with Cédric Durand, Com­ment bifur­quer. Les principes de la plan­i­fi­ca­tion écologique (La Décou­verte, 2024). He also coedit­ed, with Jean-Numa Ducange, The End of the Demo­c­ra­t­ic State. Nicos Poulantzas, a Marx­ism for the 21st cen­tu­ry (Pal­grave Macmil­lan, 2019). 

            Thomas Lamarche

            Uni­ver­sité Paris Cité, LADYSS
            Super­vi­sor of DC10: “Work­place democ­ra­cy and the eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion”

            Thomas Lamarche is an econ­o­mist, Full Pro­fes­sor at Uni­ver­sité Paris cité, mem­ber and direc­tor of the LADYSS lab­o­ra­to­ry. He is work­ing on the emer­gence of new mod­els of devel­op­ment in the con­text of cap­i­tal­ism glob­al­iza­tion cri­sis. He is so inter­est­ed on sus­tain­able devel­op­ment, social and local econ­o­my, and coop­er­a­tives… and he tries to link coop­er­a­tive move­ment, local devel­op­ment and demo­c­ra­t­ic modes of gov­er­nance. Involved in the het­ero­dox and reg­u­la­tion­nist eco­nom­ic thought, he has been chief edi­tor of Revue de la Régu­la­tion / Régu­la­tion Review. Cap­i­tal­ism, Insti­tu­tions, Pow­ers and Vice pres­i­dent of the French Asso­ci­a­tion for Polit­i­cal Economy.

              Harold Levrel

              AgroParis­Tech
              Super­vi­sor of DC11: “Con­tri­bu­tion of envi­ron­men­tal NGO’s to urban eco­log­i­cal restora­tion and rewil­d­ing dynam­ics”

              Harold Lev­rel is full Pro­fes­sor of Eco­log­i­cal Eco­nom­ics at AgroParis­Tech and Uni­ver­sité Paris-Saclay since 2014. He works at the Cen­tre Inter­na­tion­al de Recherche sur l’En­vi­ron­nement et le Développe­ment (CIRED). His research focus­es on the con­di­tions for imple­ment­ing an eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion of the econ­o­my from bio­di­ver­si­ty con­ser­va­tion poli­cies and nature based solu­tions. His work is high­ly inter­dis­ci­pli­nary and prob­lem-solv­ing ori­ent­ed. It adress­es the co-evo­lu­tion of liv­ing and socio-tech­ni­cal sys­tems, eco­log­i­cal off­set­ting and the trade-offs it rep­re­sents for bio­di­ver­si­ty con­ser­va­tion, eco­log­i­cal debt account­ing, and insti­tu­tion­al inno­va­tions in con­ser­va­tion policies.

                Antoine Rebérioux

                Uni­ver­sité Paris Cité, LADYSS
                Super­vi­sor of DC10: “Work­place democ­ra­cy and the eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion”

                Antoine Rebéri­oux is Pro­fes­sor of Eco­nom­ics at Uni­ver­sité Paris Cité (UPC), and a research fel­low at LADYSS (UPC) and CREDDI (Uni­ver­si­ty of Antilles, Guade­loupe). His research focus­es on cor­po­rate gov­er­nance, employ­ment and indus­tri­al rela­tions and gen­der inequal­i­ties. He has pub­lished numer­ous arti­cles in inter­na­tion­al peer-reviewed jour­nals, includ­ing top field reviews such as the Jour­nal of Cor­po­rate Finance, the Jour­nal of Eco­nom­ic Behav­ior and Orga­ni­za­tion, Indus­tri­al and Labor Rela­tions Review, Indus­tri­al rela­tions, the Socio-Eco­nom­ic Review, the British Jour­nal of Indus­tri­al rela­tions, the Cam­bridge Jour­nal of Eco­nom­ics, the Jour­nal of Com­mon Mar­ket Stud­ies or Eco­nom­ic Mod­el­ling.

                  Valeria Costantini

                  Uni­ver­sità degli stu­di Roma Tre
                  Super­vi­sor of DC7: “Rethink­ing devel­op­ment in devel­op­ing coun­tries: evo­lu­tion of pro­duc­tive struc­ture, depen­dence and trade in the con­text of the eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion”

                  Vale­ria Costan­ti­ni is Full Pro­fes­sor of Eco­nom­ic Pol­i­cy at the Depart­ment of Eco­nom­ics, Roma Tre Uni­ver­si­ty (Italy). She is the Head of the Depart­ment of Eco­nom­ics at Roma Tre and Pres­i­dent of the Ital­ian Asso­ci­a­tion for Envi­ron­men­tal and Resource Econ­o­mists (IAERE). She is a mem­ber of the advi­so­ry board of the Ital­ian Interuni­ver­si­ty Research Cen­tre on Sus­tain­abil­i­ty Envi­ron­men­tal Eco­nom­ics and Dynam­ics Stud­ies (SEEDS), and con­sul­tant for the trade-cli­mate mod­el of DG Trade of the EU. Her main research inter­est are: cli­mate change pol­i­cy, mon­e­tary eval­u­a­tion of envi­ron­men­tal dam­age, green tech­nolo­gies, pol­i­cy mix design, ener­gy mar­kets and geopol­i­tics. Addi­tion­al info on the per­son­al web­site.

                    Antonella Palumbo

                    Uni­ver­sità degli stu­di Roma Tre
                    Super­vi­sor of DC7: “Rethink­ing devel­op­ment in devel­op­ing coun­tries: evo­lu­tion of pro­duc­tive struc­ture, depen­dence and trade in the con­text of the eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion”

                    Antonel­la Palum­bo, PhD in eco­nom­ics at Sapien­za Uni­ver­si­ty of Rome, is Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Eco­nom­ics at Roma Tre Uni­ver­si­ty. She pub­lished arti­cles in var­i­ous jour­nals and col­lec­tive vol­umes; co-authored the 3‑volumes book Sraf­fa and the Recon­struc­tion of Eco­nom­ic The­o­ry (Pal­grave Macmil­lan, 2013) and is one of the man­ag­ing edi­tors of the Cen­tro Sraf­fa Work­ing Papers. She col­lab­o­rates on a reg­u­lar basis with INET (Insti­tute for New Eco­nom­ic Think­ing – New York). Her research inter­ests are in the the­o­ry of val­ue and dis­tri­b­u­tion and the the­o­ries of demand-led growth, in which field she par­tic­u­lar­ly con­tributed to the devel­op­ment of the Clas­si­cal-Key­ne­sian approach. Among her top­ics of research (which include exports and growth, Kaldo­ri­an mod­els, Phillips curve, Okun’s Law, het­ero­dox analy­ses of infla­tion, empir­i­cal mea­sures of full employ­ment, wages and pro­duc­tiv­i­ty), she has par­tic­u­lar­ly focused in recent years on the crit­i­cal analy­sis of the main­stream notion and mea­sure­ment of poten­tial out­put, and the pro­pos­al of alter­na­tive ones. 

                      Enrico Sergio Levrero

                      Uni­ver­sità degli stu­di Roma Tre
                      Super­vi­sor of DC10: “Work­place democ­ra­cy and the eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion”

                      Enri­co Ser­gio Lev­rero is Pro­fes­sor of Eco­nom­ics at Roma Tre Uni­ver­si­ty. He stud­ied eco­nom­ics at De Mont­fort Uni­ver­si­ty in Leices­ter (M.Phil) and the Sapien­za Uni­ver­si­ty of Rome (Master’s degree and PhD). His main research inter­ests and activ­i­ties are in the the­o­ries of val­ue and dis­tri­b­u­tion, wages and the labour mar­ket, issues of mon­e­tary eco­nom­ics, and Sraffa’s works. He is a mem­ber of the Cen­tro Sraf­fa Board of Direc­tors, the “Macro­eco­nom­ic impli­ca­tions of mar­ket-shap­ing and mis­sion ori­ent­ed pol­i­cy” research group (UCL Insti­tute for Inno­va­tion and Pub­lic Pur­pose), and the Jean Mon­net Cen­tre of Excel­lence on “Labour, Wel­fare and Social Rights in Europe”. He is edi­tor-in-chief of the Bul­letin of Polit­i­cal Econ­o­my and coor­di­na­tor of the ‘Clas­si­cal The­o­ry and Pol­i­cy Analy­sis’ Research Area of the Euro­pean Asso­ci­a­tion for Evo­lu­tion­ary Polit­i­cal Econ­o­my (EAEPE). He col­lab­o­rates with INET (Insti­tute for New Eco­nom­ic Think­ing) on mon­e­tary issues. His pre­vi­ous works include Four Lec­tures on Wages and the Labour Mar­ket (2012), Sraf­fa and the Recon­struc­tion of Eco­nom­ic The­o­ry in three vol­umes (2013, edit­ed with A. Palum­bo and A. Sti­rati) and sev­er­al arti­cles in aca­d­e­m­ic jour­nals and col­lec­tive volumes.

                        Simone D’Alessandro

                        Uni­ver­sità di Pisa
                        Super­vi­sor of DC4: “Inte­grat­ed Assess­ment Mod­els: meth­ods and appli­ca­tions to under­stand and man­age com­plex­i­ty“
                        Super­vi­sor of DC8: “Well­be­ing with­out growth”

                        Simone D’Alessandro is a Full Pro­fes­sor of Eco­nom­ics at the Depart­ment of Eco­nom­ics and Man­age­ment of Uni­ver­si­ty of Pisa. Cur­rent­ly serv­ing as Coor­di­na­tor of the PhD in Eco­nom­ics of the Tus­can Uni­ver­si­ties (Flo­rence, Pisa and Siena) and sci­en­tif­ic coor­di­na­tor for the Uni­ver­si­ty of Pisa of three sig­nif­i­cant projects fund­ed under the Hori­zon Europe pro­gramme aim­ing to devel­op a new eco­nom­ic frame­work for a sus­tain­able and inclu­sive soci­ety. 
                        While his research inter­ests span var­i­ous areas of eco­nom­ics, such as eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment, indus­tri­al eco­nom­ics, behav­iour­al eco­nom­ics, eco­log­i­cal eco­nom­ics and degrowth, his recent focus has cen­tred on the socioe­co­nom­ic impacts of poli­cies pro­mot­ing the tran­si­tion to a sus­tain­able econ­o­my. This research ques­tion stems from a com­mit­ment to address­ing a crit­i­cal issue like cli­mate change and dis­sat­is­fac­tion with pre­vail­ing approach­es. In 2017, he ini­ti­at­ed a col­lab­o­ra­tion with the Greens/EFA group at the Euro­pean Par­lia­ment on job cre­ation in a Post-Growth soci­ety. This col­lab­o­ra­tion inspired the devel­op­ment of a dynam­ic macrosim­u­la­tion mod­el, called EUROGREEN, based on sys­tem dynam­ics, pro­vid­ing a reli­able rep­re­sen­ta­tion of nation­al economies and feed­back loops between emis­sions, ener­gy use, and socioe­co­nom­ic vari­ables. A first syn­the­sis was pub­lished in the arti­cle titled “Fea­si­ble Alter­na­tives to Green Growth” (2020) in the Nature Sus­tain­abil­i­ty jour­nal. The the­mat­ic focus and the method­ol­o­gy facil­i­tat­ed the estab­lish­ment of inter­na­tion­al sci­en­tif­ic rela­tion­ships and attract­ed out­stand­ing young researchers, enabling the cre­ation of a diverse research team aim­ing not only to pro­duce orig­i­nal sci­en­tif­ic results but also to sug­gest mea­sures and inter­ven­tions to policymakers.

                          Mikael Randrup Byrialsen

                          Aal­borg Uni­ver­sitet
                          Super­vi­sor of DC5: “Stock-flow con­sis­tent mod­el­ling with a Uni­fied assets Frame­work for Improved Sus­tain­abil­i­ty deci­sion-sup­port (SUFIS)”

                          Mikael Ran­drup Byr­i­alsen is asso­ciate pro­fes­sor in Eco­nom­ics and Head of Research at Aal­borg Uni­ver­si­ty Busi­ness School, Den­mark. He also holds a PhD in Eco­nom­ics from Aal­borg Uni­ver­si­ty. His research inter­est is the area of Macro­eco­nom­ics, with a spe­cial focus on the poten­tial and lim­i­ta­tions of cur­rent macro­eco­nom­ic mod­els. He has devel­oped and main­tained large-scale esti­mat­ed macro­eco­nom­ic mod­els for the Dan­ish Econ­o­my fol­low­ing the Stock-Flow-Con­sis­tent frame­work. These mod­els have been imple­ment­ed and used to ana­lyze the short- to medi­um-term impact of dif­fer­ent poli­cies and to dis­cuss the sus­tain­abil­i­ty of a giv­en process. More recent­ly the same mod­el­ling frame­work is applied to inte­grate envi­ron­men­tal issues into macro­eco­nom­ic mod­els with the pur­pose of pro­vid­ing insight to the chal­lenges relat­ed towards the green tran­si­tion. The research results are pub­lished in both nation­al and inter­na­tion­al journals.

                            Bo Weidema

                            Aal­borg Uni­ver­sitet
                            Super­vi­sor of DC5: “Stock-flow con­sis­tent mod­el­ling with a Uni­fied assets Frame­work for Improved Sus­tain­abil­i­ty deci­sion-sup­port (SUFIS)”

                            Bo Ped­er­sen Wei­de­ma is pro­fes­sor at the Dan­ish Cen­tre for Envi­ron­men­tal Assess­ment at the Insti­tute of Sus­tain­abil­i­ty and Plan­ning, Fac­ul­ty of IT and Design, Aal­borg Uni­ver­si­ty. He has more than 30 years of expe­ri­ence in Con­se­quen­tial Life Cycle Assess­ment (LCA) and sus­tain­abil­i­ty assess­ment (LCSA). He has been man­ag­ing the devel­op­ment of glob­al LCA and IO data­bas­es in hybrid units for more than 15 years. His research inter­ests is mul­ti-dimen­sion­al stock-flow con­sis­tent sce­nario mod­el­ling and the inte­gra­tion of sub­jec­tive well­be­ing in impact assess­ment and decision-making.

                              Louison Cahen-Fourot

                              Roskilde Uni­ver­si­ty
                              Super­vi­sor of DC9: “The wage-labour nexus in a plan­e­tary bound­aries-fit econ­o­my”

                              Loui­son Cahen-Fourot is an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor of Eco­nom­ics at Roskilde Uni­ver­si­ty’s Depart­ment of Social Sci­ences and Busi­ness (Den­mark), and a guest researcher at WU Vien­na’s Insti­tute for Eco­log­i­cal Eco­nom­ics (Aus­tria). Loui­son main fields of inquiry are eco­log­i­cal macro­eco­nom­ics and the polit­i­cal econ­o­my of nature-soci­ety rela­tions. His research pro­gram inves­ti­gates the inter­con­nec­tions, inter­de­pen­dences and co-evo­lu­tion of socio-eco­nom­ic and envi­ron­men­tal dynam­ics. It includes top­ics like cap­i­tal accu­mu­la­tion regimes, modes of reg­u­la­tion and sociometa­bol­ic regimes; diver­si­ty of cap­i­tal­ism, soci­ety-envi­ron­ment rela­tions and envi­ron­men­tal poli­cies; mon­ey, finance, finan­cial­iza­tion, cli­mate and sus­tain­abil­i­ty; eco­nom­ic con­di­tions and con­se­quences of the eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion; and post-growth eco­nom­ics. Loui­son holds mas­ters’ degrees in Sus­tain­able devel­op­ment in tran­si­tion and devel­op­ing coun­tries from CERDI — Uni­ver­sité d’Au­vergne and in Inter­na­tion­al eco­nom­ics, finance and reg­u­la­tion from Sor­bonne Paris Nord. He also holds a PhD in Eco­nom­ics from Sor­bonne Paris Nord. From 2022 to 2024, Loui­son sits in the board of the Inter­na­tion­al Soci­ety for Eco­log­i­cal Eco­nom­ics.

                                Giacomo D’Alisa

                                Uni­ver­si­tat Autòno­ma de Barcelona
                                Super­vi­sor of DC8: “Well­be­ing with­out growth”

                                Gia­co­mo D’Al­isa is a polit­i­cal eco­log­i­cal econ­o­mist whose research is char­ac­ter­ized by its inter­dis­ci­pli­nary nature, action-ori­ent­ed approach, and a strong moti­va­tion for com­mu­ni­ty ser­vice. His work sig­nif­i­cant­ly con­tributes to the broad­er fields of sus­tain­abil­i­ty schol­ar­ship and envi­ron­men­tal gov­er­nance, with direct impli­ca­tions for soci­ety. With over 70 (co)authored research items, includ­ing sci­en­tif­ic jour­nal arti­cles, chap­ters, edit­ed vol­umes, and books, he has devot­ed sub­stan­tial efforts to influ­enc­ing poli­cies. Renowned as one of the lead­ing schol­ars in the field of degrowth, a high­ly debat­ed top­ic in sus­tain­abil­i­ty stud­ies, Gia­co­mo D’Al­isa has active­ly par­tic­i­pat­ed in var­i­ous aca­d­e­m­ic and trans­dis­ci­pli­nary ini­tia­tives, con­tribut­ing to the con­sol­i­da­tion of the degrowth are­na (includ­ing a mono­graph for Poli­ty Press and edit­ed a vol­ume for Rout­ledge). His research focus­es on dilem­mas relat­ed to “com­mon goods” (such as nat­ur­al resources, knowl­edge, and health) and “com­mon bads” (includ­ing waste, pol­lu­tion, and con­t­a­m­i­na­tion). He explores the diverg­ing soci­etal tra­jec­to­ries of “growth vs. degrowth” with­in the broad­er con­text of sus­tain­abil­i­ty trans­for­ma­tions and par­a­dig­mat­ic soci­etal change. Addi­tion­al­ly, Gia­co­mo D’Al­isa serves as the pro­gram direc­tor of the Mas­ter’s in Polit­i­cal Ecol­o­gy, Envi­ron­men­tal Jus­tice, and Degrowth at ICTA-UAB.

                                  Jason Hickel

                                  Uni­ver­si­tat Autòno­ma de Barcelona
                                  Super­vi­sor of DC6: “Eco­nom­ic metab­o­lism and unequal exchange: a Glob­al North / Glob­al South per­spec­tive”

                                  Dr. Jason Hick­el is an eco­nom­ic anthro­pol­o­gist, author, and a Fel­low of the Roy­al Soci­ety of Arts. He is Pro­fes­sor at the Insti­tute for Envi­ron­men­tal Sci­ence and Tech­nol­o­gy at the Autonomous Uni­ver­si­ty of Barcelona, Vis­it­ing Senior Fel­low at the Inter­na­tion­al Inequal­i­ties Insti­tute at the Lon­don School of Eco­nom­ics, and Chair Pro­fes­sor of Glob­al Jus­tice and the Envi­ron­ment at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Oslo. He is Asso­ciate Edi­tor of the jour­nal World Devel­op­ment, and serves on the Cli­mate and Macro­eco­nom­ics Round­table of the US Nation­al Acad­e­my of Sci­ences, the advi­so­ry board of the Green New Deal for Europe, the Rod­ney Com­mis­sion on Repa­ra­tions and Redis­trib­u­tive Jus­tice, and the Lancet Com­mis­sion on Sus­tain­able Health.

                                  His research focus­es on glob­al polit­i­cal econ­o­my, inequal­i­ty, and eco­log­i­cal eco­nom­ics, which are the sub­jects of his two most recent books: The Divide: A Brief Guide to Glob­al Inequal­i­ty and its Solu­tions (Pen­guin, 2017), and Less is More: How Degrowth Will Save the World (Pen­guin, 2020), which was list­ed by the Finan­cial Times and New Sci­en­tist as a book of the year. Jason’s ethno­graph­ic work focus­es on colo­nial­ism, anti-colo­nial strug­gles and the labour move­ment in South Africa.

                                    Giorgos Kallis

                                    Uni­ver­si­tat Autòno­ma de Barcelona
                                    Super­vi­sor of DC8: “Well­be­ing with­out growth”

                                    Gior­gos Kallis is an eco­log­i­cal econ­o­mist and polit­i­cal ecol­o­gist work­ing on envi­ron­men­tal jus­tice and lim­its to growth. He has worked over the years on very diverse top­ics; from water pol­i­cy in Europe or Cal­i­for­nia, par­tic­i­pa­to­ry sci­ence, and evo­lu­tion in soci­eties, to cli­mate change, lim­its to growth and con­flicts over resource use. What con­nects his var­i­ous pieces of work is a quest to under­stand why and how soci­eties mis­use their envi­ron­ments, and why behav­iour­al, insti­tu­tion­al and tech­no­log­i­cal changes that could make a dif­fer­ence are not tak­en up. He is most known for his recent pub­li­ca­tions on ‘degrowth’, the hypoth­e­sis that soci­eties can live bet­ter with less. His degrowth research com­bines insti­tu­tion­al, eco­log­i­cal eco­nom­ic and his­tor­i­cal analy­sis to explain how the idea of eco­nom­ic growth came to be hege­mon­ic, why it is lim­it­ed, and what alter­na­tives there are to growth-based devel­op­ment. His lat­est book ‘Lim­its: why Malthus was wrong and why envi­ron­men­tal­ists should care’ was pub­lished by Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty Press in 2019. 

                                      Cédric Durand

                                      Uni­ver­sité de Genève
                                      Super­vi­sor of DC3: “Big Data and In Natu­ra Cal­cu­la­tion for Eco­log­i­cal Plan­ning”

                                      Prof. Cedric Durand is an asso­ciate pro­fes­sor at the Depart­ment of His­to­ry, Eco­nom­ics and Soci­ety of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Gene­va. He has worked exten­sive­ly on recent trans­for­ma­tions of glob­al cap­i­tal­ism, with spe­cial exper­tise in the area of finan­cial­iza­tion, glob­al­iza­tion and dig­i­tal­iza­tion. His pub­li­ca­tion record on these top­ics spans jour­nals such as Jour­nal of clean­er pro­duc­tion, World development,Competition and Change, Review of Evo­lu­tion­ary Polit­i­cal Econ­o­my, Review of Polit­i­cal Econ­o­my, Socio- Eco­nom­ic Review.  
                                      His books Le cap­i­tal fic­tif. Com­ment la finance s’approprie notre avenir (2014) and Tech­noféo­dal­isme. Cri­tique de l’économie numérique (2020) have been trans­lat­ed in sev­er­al lan­guages. More­over, he is a pio­neer in the recent­ly resurg­ing debate on eco­log­i­cal plan­ning with inter­ven­tions in Le Monde Diplo­ma­tique, amongst oth­ers, and cur­rent­ly work­ing on a book about Eco­log­i­cal Plan­ning (with R. Keucheyan, forth­com­ing in 2024 in French at La Découverte). 

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                                        Luc Abbadie

                                        Sor­bonne Uni­ver­sité, IEES
                                        Super­vi­sor of DC11: “Con­tri­bu­tion of envi­ron­men­tal NGO’s to urban eco­log­i­cal restora­tion and rewil­d­ing dynam­ics”

                                        Luc Abbadie is pro­fes­sor emer­i­tus at Sor­bonne Uni­ver­si­ty where he taught gen­er­al ecol­o­gy, func­tion­al ecol­o­gy and bio­geo­chem­istry. He has cre­at­ed and man­aged sev­er­al mul­ti­dis­ci­pli­nary bachelor’s and master’s lev­el train­ing cours­es. He has con­duct­ed research on car­bon and nitro­gen cycles and on the func­tion­ing of soils and ecosys­tems, in both the trop­i­cal and tem­per­ate zones. He has launched numer­ous inter­dis­ci­pli­nary works in the field of the envi­ron­ment and appli­ca­tions of ecol­o­gy for the sus­tain­able man­age­ment of bio­di­ver­si­ty, nat­ur­al resources and ecosys­tems (eco­log­i­cal engi­neer­ing) and has led sev­er­al research projects of in urban ecol­o­gy. He was deputy sci­en­tif­ic direc­tor at the CNRS Insti­tute of Ecol­o­gy and Envi­ron­ment, Pres­i­dent of the sci­en­tif­ic coun­cil of the Nation­al Muse­um of Nat­ur­al His­to­ry and Direc­tor of the Insti­tute of Envi­ron­men­tal Tran­si­tion at Sor­bonne Uni­ver­si­ty. He is cur­rent­ly a mem­ber of the GREC Ile-de-France office (Research and exper­tise group on cli­mate and eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion in Ile de France) and vice-pres­i­dent of the sci­en­tif­ic coun­cil of the French Bio­di­ver­si­ty Office.

                                          Nathalie Coutinet

                                          Uni­ver­sité Sor­bonne Paris Nord, CEPN

                                          Nathalie Cou­tinet is Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of eco­nom­ics and research cen­tre in eco­nom­ics and man­age­ment of the Uni­ver­si­ty Paris 13 (CEPN – CNRS UMR7234). She has been the Direc­tor of the “Analyse des Poli­tiques Economiques” (APE) Master’s pro­gramme and of the EPOG Eras­mus Mundus Mas­ter’s Course at Paris 13, joint­ly with David Flach­er. Her research focus­es on Indus­tri­al eco­nom­ics, Health eco­nom­ics and the Phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­try. She has pub­lished books and numer­ous arti­cles. Her more recent book is ded­i­cat­ed to the phar­ma­ceu­ti­cal indus­try (Economie du medica­ment, Repères, La décou­verte, 2019, with Philippe Abecassis).

                                            Dany Lang

                                            Uni­ver­sité Sor­bonne Paris Nord, CEPN
                                            Super­vi­sor of DC9: “The wage-labour nexus in a plan­e­tary bound­aries-fit econ­o­my”

                                            Dany Lang is Asso­ciate Pro­fes­sor of Eco­nom­ics at Uni­ver­si­ty of Paris 13 (and Pro­fes­sor at the U. of Saint Louis, Bel­gium). He is head­ing the lab’s research axis on the “dynam­ics of cap­i­tal­ism and Post-Key­ne­sian analy­ses”. He has pub­lished many arti­cles in world-class jour­nals on income dis­tri­b­u­tion, unem­ploy­ment, path-depen­dence and the impor­tance of time in eco­nom­ics. He is in charge of the over­all coor­di­na­tion of the Major B in EPOG+, joint­ly with Philippe Steiner.

                                              Aldo Geuna

                                              Uni­ver­sità degli stu­di di Tori­no
                                              Super­vi­sor of DC1: “Plat­forms, big tech com­pa­nies and the eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion”

                                              Aldo Geu­na is Full Pro­fes­sor of Eco­nom­ic Pol­i­cy at the Depart­ment of Cul­tures, Pol­i­tics and Soci­ety, Uni­ver­si­ty of Tori­no, Fel­low IEP, Cana­di­an Insti­tute for Advanced Research (CIFAR), Fel­low of the Col­le­gio Car­lo Alber­to and Senior Research Asso­ciate at the Inno­va­tion Pol­i­cy Lab, Munk School of Glob­al Affairs, Uni­ver­si­ty of Toron­to. He was Vis­it­ing Fel­low at SIPER, Stan­ford Uni­ver­si­ty, Senior Lec­tur­er at SPRU, Uni­ver­si­ty of Sus­sex, Senior Research Fel­low at the Robert Schu­man Cen­tre for Advanced Stud­ies, Euro­pean Uni­ver­si­ty Insti­tute and Research Fel­low at BETA, Uni­ver­sité Louis Pas­teur (Stras­bourg). He has pub­lished sev­er­al books and arti­cles in ref­er­eed jour­nals in the area of eco­nom­ics of sci­ence, eco­nom­ics of inno­va­tion and sci­ence and tech­nol­o­gy pol­i­cy. He has had edi­to­r­i­al respon­si­bil­i­ties in Infor­ma­tion Eco­nom­ics and Pol­i­cy, Ital­ian Eco­nom­ic Jour­nal, Jour­nal of Tech­nol­o­gy Trans­fer and Research Pol­i­cy. He has been a mem­ber of var­i­ous sci­en­tif­ic com­mit­tees, expert groups and pan­els in Italy, Swe­den, the UK as well as for the OECD, the Nation­al Acad­e­mies (US) and the EU. He has been an invit­ed speak­er in var­i­ous Euro­pean coun­tries, the US, Cana­da, Chi­na and Korea. He taught as invit­ed vis­it­ing pro­fes­sor in Chile, France, Italy, Spain and Vietnam

                                                Manuel Scholz-Wäckerle

                                                Wirtschaft­suni­ver­sität Wien
                                                Super­vi­sor of DC7: “Rethink­ing devel­op­ment in devel­op­ing coun­tries: evo­lu­tion of pro­duc­tive struc­ture, depen­dence and trade in the con­text of the eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion”

                                                Manuel Scholz-Wäck­er­le is a senior lec­tur­er at the Vien­na Uni­ver­si­ty of Eco­nom­ics and Busi­ness (WU) at the Depart­ment of Socioe­co­nom­ics. His main research areas involve evo­lu­tion­ary polit­i­cal econ­o­my, agent-based mod­el­ling, com­plex­i­ty eco­nom­ics, insti­tu­tion­al eco­nom­ics, glob­al polit­i­cal econ­o­my dynam­ics, plat­form cap­i­tal­ism and the social eco­log­i­cal trans­for­ma­tion. Manuel has pub­lished sev­er­al peer-reviewed arti­cles, book chap­ters, edit­ed books in those fields and he is the author of “The Foun­da­tions of Evo­lu­tion­ary Insti­tu­tion­al Eco­nom­ics. Gener­ic Insti­tu­tion­al­ism” (Rout­ledge 2014). Manuel is coun­cil mem­ber of the Euro­pean Asso­ci­a­tion for Evo­lu­tion­ary Polit­i­cal Econ­o­my (EAEPE).

                                                  Hervé Jeanmart

                                                  Uni­ver­sité catholique de Lou­vain
                                                  Super­vi­sor of DC4: “Inte­grat­ed Assess­ment Mod­els: meth­ods and appli­ca­tions to under­stand and man­age com­plex­i­ty”

                                                  Hervé Jean­mart is full Pro­fes­sor of engi­neer­ing at the Uni­ver­sité catholique de Lou­vain in Bel­gium. His research and teach­ing activ­i­ties focus on ener­gy. Through the tech­no­log­i­cal devel­op­ments to which he con­tributes and his exchanges with stu­dents and the gen­er­al pub­lic, he has two major objec­tives: on the one hand, to facil­i­tate and stim­u­late the ener­gy tran­si­tion and, on the oth­er, to high­light the short­com­ings of a tran­si­tion based exclu­sive­ly on technology. 

                                                    Dominik Wiedenhofer

                                                    Uni­ver­sität für Bodenkul­tur Wien
                                                    Super­vi­sor of DC6: “Eco­nom­ic metab­o­lism and unequal exchange: a Glob­al North / Glob­al South per­spec­tive”

                                                    Dominik Wieden­hofer works as a Senior Research Sci­en­tist at the Insti­tute of Social Ecol­o­gy, Uni­ver­si­ty of Nat­ur­al Resources and Life Sci­ences, Vien­na, Aus­tria, spe­cial­iz­ing in cli­mate change mit­i­ga­tion and the envi­ron­men­tal aspects of the cir­cu­lar econ­o­my. His research is ground­ed in a socio-eco­log­i­cal sys­tems per­spec­tive, aimed at under­stand­ing the poten­tials and bar­ri­ers for a sus­tain­abil­i­ty trans­for­ma­tion. This involves a com­pre­hen­sive assess­ment of the dynam­ics and inter­link­ages of soci­etal resource use, pro­vi­sion­ing sys­tems, and socio-eco­nom­ic mate­r­i­al stocks which joint­ly pro­vide func­tions and ser­vices to soci­ety, while also result­ing in waste and emis­sions. He also engages in sus­tain­able con­sump­tion research, link­ing resource use and emis­sions across inter­na­tion­al sup­ply chains to house­holds, afflu­ence, and inequal­i­ty. This helps in under­stand­ing spillovers and inter­link­ages across the world econ­o­my. His exper­tise lies in bio­phys­i­cal mod­el­ing of sup­ply- and demand-side mea­sures for cli­mate change mit­i­ga­tion and sus­tain­able resource use, incor­po­rat­ing meth­ods like dynam­ic mate­r­i­al and ener­gy stock-flow analy­sis, and envi­ron­men­tal­ly-extend­ed input-out­put analysis

                                                      Antoine Godin

                                                      Agence Française de Développe­ment (AFD)
                                                      Tutor of DC6: “Eco­nom­ic metab­o­lism and unequal exchange: a Glob­al North / Glob­al South per­spec­tive“
                                                      Tutor of DC7: “Rethink­ing devel­op­ment in devel­op­ing coun­tries: evo­lu­tion of pro­duc­tive struc­ture, depen­dence and trade in the con­text of the eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion“
                                                      Tutor of DC8: “Well­be­ing with­out growth”

                                                      Antoine Godin is respon­si­ble for the devel­op­ment and mon­i­tor­ing of AFD’s pro­gram on macro­eco­nom­ic mod­el­ing tools for the eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion, includ­ing the GEMMES mod­el (“Gen­er­al Mon­e­tary and Mul­ti­sec­toral Macro­dy­nam­ics for the Eco­log­i­cal Shift”). Devel­oped by AFD, this tool is one of the few whose sce­nar­ios include eco­nom­ic and finan­cial risks relat­ed to cli­mate change and the col­lapse of bio­di­ver­si­ty.
                                                      Antoine Godin joined AFD in 2017 and worked on the devel­op­ment of an appli­ca­tion of the GEMMES mod­el for the economies of Colom­bia and Moroc­co. He has been head of the GEMMES Unit since July 2019. He is also con­tin­u­ing research on low-car­bon and resilient eco­nom­ic devel­op­ment, with a focus on the changes in the job mar­ket that are part of this tran­si­tion.
                                                      Before join­ing AFD, Antoine Godin con­tributed to the devel­op­ment of dif­fer­ent method­olog­i­cal approach­es to macro­eco­nom­ic mod­el­ing, which have been built on the con­cept of links between eco­nom­ic dynam­ics and finan­cial dynam­ics. He was pre­vi­ous­ly a con­sul­tant for the Bank of Eng­land and Pro­fes­sor of Finan­cial Eco­nom­ics at Kingston Uni­ver­si­ty in Lon­don. Antoine Godin is now an Asso­ciate Econ­o­mist at the Cen­ter of Eco­nom­ics of the Uni­ver­si­ty of Paris-Nord (CEPN). He grad­u­at­ed as an Engi­neer in Applied Math­e­mat­ics at the Catholic Uni­ver­si­ty of Leu­ven (Bel­gium), and holds a PhD in Eco­nom­ics from the Uni­ver­si­ty of Pavia (Italy). Using mul­ti-agent stock-flow con­sis­tent mod­els, he has stud­ied inno­va­tion dynam­ics, finan­cial insta­bil­i­ty and guar­an­teed employ­ment policies.

                                                        Fabian Wagner

                                                        Inter­na­tion­al Insti­tute for Applied Sys­tems Analy­sis (IIASA)
                                                        Tutor of DC4: “Inte­grat­ed Assess­ment Mod­els: meth­ods and appli­ca­tions to under­stand and man­age com­plex­i­ty“
                                                        Tutor of DC5: “Stock-flow con­sis­tent mod­el­ling with a Uni­fied assets Frame­work for Improved Sus­tain­abil­i­ty deci­sion-sup­port (SUFIS)”

                                                        Fabi­an Wag­n­er is the Dean for Capac­i­ty Devel­op­ment and Aca­d­e­m­ic Train­ing (CDAT) at IIASA, and a prin­ci­pal research schol­ar in the Ener­gy, Cli­mate, and Envi­ron­ment (ECE) Pro­gram. Between 2014 and 2016, Wag­n­er was the Ger­hard R. Andlinger Pro­fes­sor for Ener­gy and the Envi­ron­ment at Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty. Before join­ing IIASA in 2004, he was a researcher with the Inter­gov­ern­men­tal Pan­el on Cli­mate Change (IPCC) in Japan and a post­doc at the Lawrence Berke­ley Nation­al Lab­o­ra­to­ry (LBNL) in Cal­i­for­nia. He is also Edi­tor-in-Chief of the jour­nal Mit­i­ga­tion and Adap­ta­tion Strate­gies for Glob­al Change (Springer Nature).  Wag­n­er received both his PhD (the­o­ret­i­cal physics) and two mas­ter’s degrees (math­e­mat­ics, his­to­ry and phi­los­o­phy of sci­ence) from Cam­bridge Uni­ver­si­ty, UK.

                                                          Jason Nardi

                                                          Inter­con­ti­nen­tal net­work for the pro­mo­tion of social sol­i­dar­i­ty
                                                          econ­o­my
                                                          Tutor of DC2: “Which role for low-tech, com­mons-based man­u­fac­tur­ing and decen­tralised pro­duc­tion with­in the eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion per­spec­tive”

                                                          Jason Nar­di is the pres­i­dent of RIES (Ital­ian Sol­i­dar­i­ty Econ­o­my Net­work) and co-founder of Sol­i­dar­ius Italia (solidarius.it), an orga­ni­za­tion that pro­motes research, train­ing and devel­op­ment of sol­i­dar­i­ty econ­o­my cir­cuits, part of an inter­na­tion­al net­work ini­ti­at­ed in Brazil (Solidarius.net).
                                                          A train­er on the top­ics of sol­i­dar­i­ty econ­o­my and eth­i­cal finance, Jason is gen­er­al del­e­gate of RIPESS EU — Sol­i­dar­i­ty Econ­o­my Europe and for five years was coor­di­na­tor of the inter­na­tion­al coun­cil of RIPESS, the Inter­con­ti­nen­tal Net­work for the Pro­mo­tion of the Social Sol­i­dar­i­ty Econ­o­my, which brings togeth­er grass­roots ini­tia­tives, coop­er­a­tive and social enter­pris­es, aca­d­e­m­ic and insti­tu­tion­al mem­bers world­wide. RIPESS is rec­og­nized by ECOSOC and is an observ­er mem­ber of the Unit­ed Nations Inter­a­gency Task Force on SSE (UNSSE.org).
                                                          Jason stud­ied com­mu­ni­ca­tion and media (Prince­ton Uni­ver­si­ty, USA, and a Mas­ter’s degree at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Flo­rence) and was direc­tor of Uni­mon­do, the Ital­ian cen­ter of Oneworld.net — an inter­na­tion­al por­tal on glob­al rights. For ten years he worked for the Eth­i­cal Finance Foun­da­tion and at the annu­al Ter­ra Futu­ra event. Jason lives in Flo­rence, where he pro­motes CSA (Com­mu­ni­ty Sup­port­ed Agri­cul­ture) projects, mutu­al­ism (in MAG Flo­rence), the Mon­deg­gi Bene Comune com­mu­ni­ty and the Flo­rence Com­mons Forum.

                                                            Béla Galgóczi

                                                            Euro­pean Trade Union Insti­tute
                                                            Tutor of DC9: “The wage-labour nexus in a plan­e­tary bound­aries-fit econ­o­my“
                                                            Tutor of DC10: “Work­place democ­ra­cy and the eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion”

                                                            Bela Gal­go­czi is a Senior Researcher. He has been work­ing as senior research offi­cer at the Euro­pean Trade Union Insti­tute (ETUI), Brus­sels since April 2003. His main research fields over the years have been cap­i­tal and labour mobil­i­ty in the EU, third coun­try migra­tion and income con­ver­gence. His cur­rent research focus is a just tran­si­tion towards a car­bon neu­tral econ­o­my with focus on fair labour mar­ket tran­si­tions in car­bon inten­sive sec­tors and regions. He has a degree in elec­tron­i­cal engi­neer­ing (Budapest Tech­ni­cal Uni­ver­si­ty), in soci­ol­o­gy (Uni­ver­si­ty of Sci­ences Budapest) with post-grad­u­ate stud­ies in polit­i­cal sci­ence Uni­ver­si­ty of Ams­ter­dam). He also holds a Ph.D. in eco­nom­ics (Hun­gar­i­an Acad­e­my of Sci­ences).
                                                            Areas of activ­i­ty: employ­ment and social poli­cies, sus­tain­able devel­op­ment, impact of cri­sis, labour mobil­i­ty, restruc­tur­ing, man­ag­ing change, loca­tion com­pe­ti­tion, Cen­tral East­ern Europe

                                                              Cédissia About

                                                              Ville de Paris
                                                              Tutor of DC11: “Con­tri­bu­tion of envi­ron­men­tal NGO’s to urban eco­log­i­cal restora­tion and rewil­d­ing dynam­ics”

                                                              Cédis­sia About is Archi­tect-urban plan­ner at the City of Paris. She holds a PhD in urban plan­ning. In charge of research and devel­op­ment at the Pub­lic Build­ings and Archi­tec­ture Depart­ment, her main mis­sions involve mon­i­tor­ing and imple­ment­ing strate­gic plans and doc­u­ments, devel­op­ing and imple­ment­ing inno­va­tions relat­ing to eco-ren­o­va­tion in pub­lic build­ing, mon­i­tor­ing the green­ing of school grounds. She has pub­lished and con­tributes to var­i­ous research pro­grams on areas includ­ing eco-urban­ism and eco-con­struc­tion, cir­cu­lar econ­o­my, life cycle analy­sis, nature in the city.
                                                               

                                                                Cécilia Berthaud

                                                                Secré­tari­at général pour la plan­i­fi­ca­tion écologique
                                                                Tutor of DC1: “Plat­forms, big tech com­pa­nies and the eco­log­i­cal tran­si­tion“
                                                                Tutor of DC3: “Big Data and In Natu­ra Cal­cu­la­tion for Eco­log­i­cal Plan­ning”

                                                                Cecil­ia Berthaud is Deputy Sec­re­tary Gen­er­al for Eco­log­i­cal Plan­ning, and head of the Ambi­tion depart­ment (pub­lic poli­cies, financ­ing). She has worked for over 15 years on the design and financ­ing of pub­lic poli­cies. She has been par­tic­u­lar­ly involved in eco­log­i­cal and ener­gy tran­si­tion issues, at the Min­istry of Finance, the Min­istries of Eco­log­i­cal and Ener­gy Tran­si­tion and Hous­ing, the Euro­pean Com­mis­sion and the French Devel­op­ment Agency in Mex­i­co. Cecil­ia is a Gen­er­al Inspec­tor of Finance, a grad­u­ate of the Ecole Nationale d’Ad­min­is­tra­tion, Sci­ences Po Paris and the School of Ori­en­tal and African Stud­ies, Uni­ver­si­ty of London.

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