Biographical note

Michelle S. Gale de Oliveira is a Director of the Green Economics Institute, UK. She studied at International Relations Department at Richmond, the American International University in London (RAIUL), is currently at SOAS, London University and lives in the remote rainforest in Brazil. She has edited the Green Economics Institute's members' magazine, The Green Economist, and acted as deputy editor for the International Journal of Green Economics. Her writing has been featured in Europe's World, one of the foremost European policy magazines. She lectures and speaks on Environmental and Social Justice, Gender Equity, and International Development from a Green Economics perspective. She is founder and chair of the Gender Equity Forum at RAIUL. She has organised a Green Economics conference on women's unequal pay and poverty in Reading, UK, and lectured on green economics in Berlin, Germany, at retreats in Glastonbury, UK, and and the American University in FYRO Macedeonia. She is a regular speaker at international conferences, and was on the Green Economics Institutes Delegation to Copenhagen COP15 Kyoto Conference and also heads up The Green Economics Institute's Delegation to Cancun Mexico COP16 Kyoto Conference both in 2010. Volker Heinemann is an economist who studied at the Universities of Goettingen, Kiel and Nottingham. He is a specialist in international and developing economics, monetary economics and macroeconomic theory and policy. He is author of the book Die Oekonomie der Zukunft,A" A"The Economy of the Future,A" a book outlining a green structure for a contemporary economy that accepts the pressing changes that are needed to outdated current economic thinking. He is co-founder and Director and CFO of the Green Economics Institute, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales, trained at PWC and other major Institutions and is a Deputy Editor of the International Journal of Green Economics. Miriam Kennet is an economist, environmental scientist and member of Mansfield College, Oxford University, the Environmental Change Institute, Oxford University and the Oxford Union and IPCC. She co-edited Green Economics, beyond Supply and Demand to Meeting People's NeedsA", and she is author of over 100 articles on green economics and stakeholder theory, corporate social responsibility and economics transformation, green jobs, geo engineering and women's unequal pay and poverty, climate change, poverty prevention and biodiversity economics. She is CEO, director and co-founder of the Green Economics Institute, a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply (MCIPS) and the founder and editor of the International Journal of Green Economics and The Green Economist. She is a regular trainer, speaker, lecturer and adviser to governments, including the National Government School in the UK and on the international stage and also many universities around the world and speaks on radio and TV in several countries, as well as running a very lively international interns college and regular influential and international green economics conferences and has her own delegation to the Kyoto Process and is a UK government recommended reviewer for the IPCC and is a reviewer and writer for the Inernational Labour Organisation. Mahelet Alemayehu Mekonnen is an Ethiopian economist interested in economics and political science at Richmond The American University in London. She heads up our Africa team and is editor of our special issue of our academic journal on Africa and our forthcoming book about Africa. She is economics advisor for the management team. She is a firm believer in education and believes in tackling one of the most important problems we are facing in the global world, particularly the issue of climate change and inequality towards women. Her work relates to examining big projects and questions of sustainability - and development.