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SPEAKERS' PROFILES
Jenny Andersson is Associate Professor of Economic History, based
in the Centre d’études et des relations internationales, Sciences Po, Paris. She
is also an affiliated researcher with the Swedish Institute for Futures Studies,
Stockholm. She is the author of Between Growth and Security: Swedish Social
Democracy from a Strong Society to a Third Way (Manchester University Press,
2006) and The Library and the Workshop: Social Democracy and Capitalism in an
Age of Knowledge (Stanford University Press, 2009).
Sebastian de Toro is political advisor at the Swedish Social
Democratic Parliamentary Group. He is currently writing a report on Education
Policy together with Pär Nuder, former Minister for Finance, for the FEPS.
Lord Meghnad Desai is Professor Emeritus of Economics at the London
School of Economics and Political Science. He is the founder of the Centre for
the Study of Global Governance. From 1990-1995 he was Director of LSE's
Development Studies Institute. He is the author of several publications on
economics, among them Marx's Revenge: The Resurgence of Capitalism and the Death
of Statist Socialism (2002).
Clive Hamilton is Charles Sturt Professor of Public Ethics at the
Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics based at the Australian National
University. Until early 2008 he was the Executive Director of The Australia
Institute, Australia’s leading progressive think tank, which he founded in 1993.
He is the author of a number of best-selling books, including Growth Fetish,
Affluenza (with Richard Denniss), Silencing Dissent (with Sarah Maddison) and
Scorcher: The dirty politics of climate change.
Jón Baldvin
Hannibalsson is former Minister of Finance (1987-88) and Foreign Affairs and
External Trade (1988-1995) of Iceland. He was the leader of The
Social-democratic Party – SDP – (1984-1996). He was the Chief negotiator for
Iceland on the European Economic Area Agreement (EEA), 1989-93. He holds M.A.
(Econ.) from Edinburgh University (1963); and undertook Postgraduate work in
Economics at Stockholm University (1963-64) and Harvard (1976-77).
Dr Christian Kellermann , is the Director of the Friedrich Ebert
Foundation for the Nordic Countries, based in Stockholm, Sweden. He was
previously a Program Manager at the Foundation's International Policy Analysis
Department in Berlin, specializing in European economic and social affairs and
financial markets. He holds a doctorate degree in Global Political Economy from
the Universities of Kassel and Frankfurt.
Christophe Lannelongue is Inspector General at the General
Inspectorate of Social Affairs in France, mainly evaluating health and
medico-social programmes and policies. His previous position includes Director
of Administration at the Ministry of Employment and Solidarity and Rapporteur at
the Court of Audit of France.
Lena Sommestad is Chief Executive of the Swedish District Heating
Association. She was the Minister of the Environment of Sweden in 2002-2006.
Sommestad was appointed Professor of Economic History at the University of
Uppsala in 2001 and she was General Director of the Institute for Futures
Studies in 1998-2002. She is Deputy Member of the Council of Sweden’s central
bank Sveriges Riksbank.
Matti Tuomala , Dr.Soc.Sc, is Researcher of Economics at the
Department of Economics and Accounting at the University of Tampere. His fields
of specialization include, among others, public sector economics, economic
inequality and theories of optimal taxation.
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