Mr. Tim Jackson
Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) and Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey
Mr. Jackson is Professor of Sustainable Development at the University of Surrey and Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). He currently holds a Professorial Fellowship on Prosperity and Sustainability in the Green Economy (PASSAGE) also funded by the ESRC. He has been at the forefront of international debates about sustainable development for over two decades and has worked closely with the UK Government, the United Nations, and numerous private companies and NGOs to bring social science research into sustainability. Between 2004 and 2011, he was Economics Commissioner on the UK Sustainable Development Commission, where his work culminated in the publication of his controversial best-seller “Prosperity without Growth: economics for a finite planet.” His research interests focus on the economic and social aspects of the relationship between people’s lifestyles and the environment. In addition to this Tim is an award-winning playwright with numerous radio-writing credits for the BBC.