Editorial team
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Andro Rilović
Blog and Library team
Andro is a PhD student in ecological economics and political ecology at the International Institute of Social Studies. Interested in degrowth & anarchism, and how they can be applied in creating new community development models.
Christiane Kliemann
Blog team
Christiane is a freelance journalist who has established the blog in the run-up to the Degrowth Conference. Before she has worked at the UNFCCC secretariat and Deutsche Welle.
Constanza Hepp
Coordination
She studied Journalism in Santiago and Human Ecology in Lund . She is currently living in northern Italy, caring for her family and establishing a CSA project. She is creating a bridge between academic activism & social practices.
Corinna Burkhart
Conceptual Design and Implementation
Corinna is a human ecologist and active in the European degrowth movement. She is taking care of the media library.
Gabriel Trettel Silva
Library team
Gabriel is an Environmental Scientist who researches on the implications of degrowth for the global South. He worked as a UNESCO consultant to integrate sustainability into public education curricula in Sao Paulo and an educator for solidarity economy enterprises.
Jacob Smessaert
Library Team
Jacob is currently doing a PhD in environmental social sciences at Utrecht University, focusing on democratic praxis in alternative food networks.
Joe Herbert
Blog team
Joe (@joefherb) is a PhD student in Human Geography at Newcastle University, researching narratives of socio-ecological transformation amongst young environmental activists in the UK. He is a blog editor for degrowth.info and runs @degrowthUK on twitter.
Joëlle Saey-Volckrick
Blog and Library team
Joëlle is a lecturer of Ecological Economics at the HWR Berlin, and a community builder for a food buying group in Quebec. Her work seeks to build bridges between the academia and social movements.
Nathan Barlow
Blog team
Nathan is currently a PhD candidate at the WU in Vienna. His research focuses on degrowth, strategies for social ecological transformation, and understanding how related movements are taking shape on both sides of the Atlantic. He is also a main organizer of the Vienna degrowth conference.
Nick Andrian
Blog team
Nick is a young social scientist with particular interest in ecological economics and political ecology.
Nina Treu
Conceptual Design and Fundraising
Nina is a political scientist and has been working for the Konzeptwerk since 2012. Besides her work for the web portal, she focuses on internal coordination for the Konzeptwerk.
Riccardo Mastini
Social Media and Blog team
Riccardo Mastini is a PhD student in ICTA at the Autonomous University of Barcelona. He tweets at @r_mastini, his essays are on his website, and you can follow him on Facebook at @r.mastini.
Thomas Makled
Social media team
Thomas is a human being inspired by degrowth and ecological economics. He is an organizer with DegrowUS, and studies environmental policy at the University of Michigan.
