Workshop: Let’s create an economy for people and the planet together!

Jakob Hafele

The climate and biodiversity crisis, together with growing social polarisation, have made increasingly clear that people are ready for a transformation of our economic model. As it stands, 74% of people in G20 countries favour human wellbeing and environmental protection over profit maximisation. The big question is: How can we get there?

This workshop will explore how we can create a wellbeing economy that enables a good life within planetary boundaries. We will first discuss what’s needed to achieve this economic transformation, and the challenges that impedes on their current implementation. This understanding will provide the basis to develop and co-create concrete transformational plans for key economic actors: households, communities, businesses, and the state.

The workshop will be moderated by Jakob Hafele, co-founder of the ZOE Institute for Future-fit Economies.

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Jakob Hafele

Co-Founder and Managing Director / ZOE Institute for Future-fit Economies

Jakob is co-founder and managing director of ZOE Institute for Future-fit Economies. He makes use of his economic expertise to consult the European Commission, the European Parliament, national and local governments on their way to build just and sustainable economies. With over 10 years of experience as a facilitator of co-creative processes, moderator of workshops, and as an intervention design strategist he co-creates roadmaps for objective-driven political intervention strategies in participatory policy design processes. He is also an economics researcher with the University of Linz focusing on European Economic development.

Jakob Hafele studied economics at the University of Heidelberg and international development at the University of Vienna. In the past he has worked as an industrial policy expert for the UN, GIZ and national governments, for the Network for Pluralism in Economics, of which he is co-founder, and for the Macroeconomic Policy Institute.

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