Lorenzo Fioramonti
Director of the Institute for Sustainability, University of Surrey
Email: l.fioramonti@surrey.ac.uk
Expertise:
Lorenzo Fioramonti (@lofioramonti) is the Founding Director of the Institute for Sustainability at the University of Surrey (UK). A former member of Parliament and national Minister of Education, University and Research in Italy, he has been a champion of sustainability education and research in a number of fields (he made Italy the first country in the world to introduce mandatory climate change and sustainability education in all schools). His most recent books are Wellbeing Economy: Success in a World Without Growth (MacMillan 2017) and The World After GDP: Economics, Politics and International Relations in the Post-Growth Era (Polity 2017), which have been featured – among others - by Bloomberg and the Financial Times. His opinion pieces have been published, among others, by The New York Times, Financial Times, The Guardian, Foreign Policy, Harvard Business Review, TruthOut, Die Presse, The Conversation, Das Parlament, Der Freitag, The Mail&Guardian, Business Day and www.opendemocracy.net. He is the author of two film documentaries, The Age of Adaptation (http://lorenzofioramonti.org/videos/) and Presi per il PIL (in Italian, http://www.presiperilpil.org/ilfilm.html). He is a sought-after public speaker on issues regarding new economic paradigms, rethinking development and purpose-driven business. His personal website is www.lorenzofioramonti.org