Miriam Kennet
Councillor Miriam Kennet is Co-founder and Director of the Green Economics Institute
She is the Founder and Editor of the International Journal of Green Economics which is published by Inderscience and can be seen on www.inderscience.com/ijge. and on the Editorial Review Board of several other journals including International Journal of Ecological Economics & Statistics, and the International Journal of Industrial Ecology.
She is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Ecological Economics and Statstics based in India
She is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Industrial Ecology based in Finland
She is on the Editorial Board of the Sindh Journal of Agriculture based in Pakistan
She is on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Environmental Philosophy based in Romania
She is co- author with Dr Molly Scot Cato of "Green Economics,Beyond Supply and Demand to Meeting People's Needs," a book on Green Economics published by Green Audit 1998 as a result of running numerous conferences on Green Economics all over the UK, for the complete list please see the conferences page.
Miriam has extensive management experience in business, including 5 years setting up France Telecom Orange global outsourcing team and its supply chains and Baxter Healthcares European IT teams, Babcock Power and Nortel Telecoms international operations. She has worked in many countries in Western Europe such as France, Germany, Belgium Spain and Portugal amongst others. She has degrees from Leeds University, South Bank University and Oxford University and has authored many articles and is writing books for several publishers on business and economics including Gower Business Management Publishers. She has carried out extensive research into corporate sustainable strategies and now advises the Civil Service in the Cabinet Office, the European Greens in the European parliament and is working with a speaking in the European Commission on the next Stern Report on Biodiversity issues in economics.
She is Director of a Supply Chain Company, Purchasing and Supply Chain Management which consults with some of the largest companies in the UK and also of the Green Economics Institute and a trustee of its Trust.
Miriam founded and edited the first tripple blind peer reviewed Green Academic Journal in the world for an academic publisher based in Geneva which is extremely sucessful and there is great competition to get articles in there as they are of the highest quality, and she is therefore about to found another one based in the Uk.
Her recent research is investigating economics methodology, and her previous research was about stakeholder theory and sustainability.
She currently teaches at Birkbeck College London University, and this year has trained participants in Yorkshire and is about to train in Poland, Frankfurt, and Berlin in Germany amongst others and runs regular conferences at Oxford University, and she has recently written for the Harvard Economics Review in the USA, the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation in Berlin, and is about to write for "Europe's World" the leading European Policy Magazine. With Judith Felton, she has now developed a global network in 47 countries working to update and reform economics.
She is a regular speaker on all aspects of economics, including at Oxford University Politics,Philosphy and Economics Society on the reform of Economics. She is a member of Oxford Universitys' Environmental Change Institute which is very influencial in the Bclimate change debate and Mansfield Colllege which specialises in ethics.
Her current research at Keele University is looking at theoretical approaches to understanding stakeholder needs comparing stakeholder theory with the nascent discipline of green economics in the setting of procurement, supply side and Purchasing Practices .She trained in economics with Grazia Ietto Gillies in Foreign Direct Investment and Strategies of International Firms as well as at Templeton College Business School Oxford University.
She is concerned with the effects on stakeholders of such practises as outsourcing and off shoring and single sourcing and how modern purchasing practises are accelerating globalization and affecting more and more stakeholders.
She is committed to finding better models to inform the development of purchasing and its relationship with big multi national global companies and larger management consultants and to start helping ordinary people and local communities throughout the world.
She is a full member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply.
As a practioner specialising in supply for large infrastracture projects she is uniquely able to test her theories in practise in the international environment in which she works.
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Her publications include:
Scot Cato M., and Kennet M. (1999) Green Economics, Beyond Supply and Demand to Meeting People's Needs Green Audit
Scott Cato M., and Kennet M., (1999) Introduction: in Green Economics, Beyond Supply and Demand to Meeting People's Needs Green Audit. Publisher- Green Audit
Kennet M.,(1999) Backlash strategies:Strategies Employed by Big Business to Meet the Environmental Challenge, In Scott Cato M., and Kennet M., Green Economics : Beyond Supply and Demand to meeting peoples needs. Green Audit. Aberystwyth.
Kennet .M., (2004) Kennet M., (2004) How do current purchasing methods in large international companies affect stakeholders? Research to investigate the effect of purchasing trends and practices on people and planet. In Proceedings of "The 2004 Corporate Social Responsibility and Environmental Management Conference." ERP Environment. Shipley.West Yorkshire.p.129 48th and 29th June 2004
Kennet.M., (2003) "Stakeholder effects in procurement practise" in Leeds University ERP Environment Proceedings 2003
Kennet.M., (2005) "Parecon Review" in Sustainable Development edited by Delyse Springett Wileys Interscience
Kennet.M. (2004) "Stakeholder Effects and supply issues" in Oxford Brookes University Annual Research Conference 2004
Kennet.M., (2005) Effects and supply issues Oxford Brookes University Annual Research Confernence 2005
Kennet M., Heinemann V.,(2006) Green Economics: setting the scene. Aims, context, and philosophical underpinning of the distinctive new solutions offered by Green Economics In International Journal of Green Economics, Volume 1 issue 1 /2 Inderscience Publishers. Pages 68-102 www.inderscience.com/ijge
Kennet M., (2007) Editorial :Progress in Green Economics: ontology,concepts, and philosophy. Civilisation and the lost factor of reality in social and environmental justice. in International Journal of Green Economics Vol 1. issue 3 / 4
Kennet M., and Heinemann V. (2006) Foreword to International Journal of Green Economics Vlume 1 issue 1/2 with Volker Heinemann 2006
Kennet M., (2006) Earth time and intergenerational equity and the importance of long termism in economics. Proceedings at Oxford University Mansfield College Conference on Long termism. Earth time and Intergenerational Equity 2006
Kennet M.,(2006) How do current purchasing and supply chain methods of large international companies affect stakeholders? In Proceedings of the Green Economics and Intergenerational Equity Holism and Long-Termism Conference. 8th April . Mansfield College Oxford University. Green Economics Institute Publishing.
in Oxford University Procedings 8th April 2006
Kennet.M., (2006) Review of Stakeholder Theory Samantha Miles and Andrew Friedman 2006 Inderscience
Kennet.M., (2006) Review of After the Ice by Steven Mithen 2006 Inderscience
Kennet M., (2007) Social aspects of Green Economics. Association of Heterodox Economists. September 2007.
Kennet M., (2007) Review of 50 Development economists, in Volume 1 issue 3/4 International Journal of Green Economics. Inderscience
Kennet M. (2007) Budget comment for 2007, on The Ecologist website
Kennet M., (2008) Socio - ecological transformation: Green Economics new perspectives for solutions to the most pressing problems of today in Social-ecological Transformation / Reconstruction as a Central Challenge for Alternative Economic Conceptions and Strategies of economic policies." Delheim J., (Eds). Rosa Luxemburg Foundation. Publisher Dietz Verlag. Bonn, Germany (Forthcoming).
Kennet. M., (2007) Green Economics. Harvard College Economics Review.Volume II, Issue 1.December 2007.
Kennet.M., (2007) The Basic Income Scheme. Basic Income for all. Greenworld. (2007) Kennet.M.( 2008) Lower Growth increasing happiness. in Greenworld 59 p.14. Winter Issue(2008)
Kennet.M.,(2008)Viennese whirls. Miriam Kennet speaks in the Austrian Parliament about our economic vision. The popularity of Green Economics.Greenworld No. 59 p.7(2008)
Kennet M.,(2008) Increasing Parish Council Representation. Greenworld No.59 Winter Issue 2008
Kennet.M.,(2008) Lower Growth Economics. Resurgence Magazine. Spring 2008
Kennet M. (2008) Review of Transnational Corporations, by Grazia Ietto Gillies, IJGE Vol 2. issue 1 January 2008
Kennet. M. and Seeberg M. L. (2008) Review of a History of anthropology. IJGE Vol 2 Issue 1 January 2008
Kennet. M. (2007) Editorial. About The Green Economist. The Green Economist Vol 2 issue no.2 November 2007
Kennet M., Report from the European Greens Council in Vienna.The Green Economist.. Vol 2 issue no 2. Novbember 2007
Kennet. M. (2007) Editorial. Green International. Issue 110 Autumn 2007
Kennet M., (2007) Editorial. Green International Issue 109 Spring 2007
Kennet M., (2006) Editorial Green International Issue 108 Autumn 2006
Kennet M., (2008) Social aspects of Green Economics.Evidence of the need for an holistic approach. Proceedings of Social aspects of Green Economics Conference.The Green Economics Institute. February 9th 2008 Oxford University, Published by The Green Economics Institute
Kennet M. and Bridger R. (2009) Forthcoming. Gower Management Handbook of Procurement and Supply Chains. Gower Publishing.
Kennet M. and Bridger R. (2009) Forthcoming.Gower Management Handbook of Sustainable Growth and Green Globalisation. Gower Publishing.
She will be guest editor for the International Journal of Ecological economics and statistics in January 2008.
|Recent and forthcoming speeches also include
Recent speeches Radio 4 May 2006 Westminster Programme
World Council of Business and sustainable development in Geneva interviewed by Nick Gowing of BBC February 2006
Forum for the Future speech on regulation to the Forum's scholars, in May 2006
She spoke at Green Spirit in Ascot 2005
Oxford University Politics philosophy and economics society lecture 2004
Addressing the Scottish Parliament in November 2006
She spoke in the Austrian Parliament on Lower Growth Economics in October 2007
Will be speaking at Edinburgh University 2008
She is invited to Brittany to speak to the French Greens August 2007
She was invited to the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation in Berlin in June 2007
She spoke at the Heterodox Economics Conference in its plenary on commodification and the informal economy with Barbara Harris - White, Queen Elizabeth House, Oxford University, in July 2007 .
She will be speaking in the French Senat in June 2008
She will be speaking at JCB about Corporate Social Responsibility in March 2008
She will be running a training course with the Civil Service College in September 2008
She will be speaking in the Plenary on the state of the art in Green Economics at the Association of Heterodox Economists at Cambridge in July 2008
She will be speaking at Oxford University on Social aspects of Green Economics February 2008
She will be speaking in India in September 2008
She will be speaking at the Swedish Greens Conference in 2008
She will be speaking at a conference on Corporate Social Responsibility and Stakeholder theory at JCB in March 2008
She has spoken at Leeds at the CSR conference on business on several occaisions .
She discussed speaking on the main platform for Earth Day July 2007 .
She promoted the Road Traffic Reduction Act in Parliament
She is very active in women's issues and was part of the Oxfam funded Women's Economics Group and is aware of the enormous philosophical contribution of women'seconomics to the development of Green Economics.
She deplores the current government and US activities in Iraq and believes they are the result of rampant globalization and greed and only were followed to benefit the oil companies and reconstruction firms.
"Green economics or economics as if people mattered avoids the need for this kind of behaviour."
Contact Miriam at: greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com(note replace "AT" by @ : this is an anti spam measure)
Miriam Kennet May 2007
