List of participants of the Economics Commons Conference 2013.

A draft list of participants per country is available here

A

• Nils Aguilar, Germany , French documentary filmmaker, transition researcher
• Nicole Alix, France , Secretary of the Board of the International Forum of Social and Solidarity Economy Entrepreneurs- Mont-Blanc Meetings
• Alain Ambrosi, Canada ; documentary filmmaker Remix the Commons, represents Communautique
• Yumin Ao, China - USA ; Adjunct professor in Chinese language and literature at George Mason University

B

• Saki Bailey, Italy ; Director of “Occupying the Commons: Teatro Valle Occupato.”
• Sophie Ball, UK ; Phd thesis title: Reclaiming the Commons: a discourse for new politics
• Michel Bauwens, Belgium ; P2P Foundation , Commons Strategies Group
• Markus Beckedahl, Germany ; Blogger and operator of netzpolitik.org
• Anna Betz, UK ; Co-founder of the School of Commoning, particular interest in protecting healthcare from enclosure
• Bruna Bianchi, Italy ; Associate Professor ( History of Political Thought and Women's History) at the University Ca’Foscari of Venice
• Balász Bodó, Hungary/Netherlands ; Economist, assistant professor, researcher at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics
• David Bollier, USA ; Commons Strategies Group
• Alexa Bradley, USA ; Program Director at On The Commons focused on the Great Lakes Commons Initiative
• Michael Brie, Germany ; Philosopher, director of the Institute for social analysis at the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation
• Marvin Brown, USA ; author of ‘Civilising the Economy’
• Nicola Bullard, Australia/ France/ Thailand ; Focus on the Global South.
• Leo Burke, USA ; Professor and Director of the Global Commons Initiative
• Allen Butcher, US) ; Self-employed author focusing upon intentional community and other applications of time-based economics

C

• Paolo Cacciari, Italy ; Journalist, previous council member of Venice and previous member of parliament in charge of the environment. Author of publications on degrowth and commons.
• Rahul Chaturverdi, India; Senior Programme Officer at the Foundation for Ecological Security (FES)
• Christin Chemnitz, Germany ; Head of Department International Agricultural Policy at the Heinrich Böll Foundation since 2007
• Shun-Ling Chen, Taiwan/US ;dissertation: The Haunting Author in the Distribution of Ownership and Authority: An exploration through Collaborative Cultural Production.
• Gino Cocchiaro, Italy ; lawyer with a South African based NGO named Natural Justice
• Pat Conaty, UK ; fellow of new economics foundation and a research associate of Co-operatives UK
• Daniel Constein, Germany ; founding member of Förderverein Wachstumswende e.V. and member of "Netzwerk Wachstumswende" - a German network and plattform for scientistist and practitioners working towards an economy and society beyond the growth paradigm
• Chris Cook, UK ; Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Security and Resilience Studies at University College London
• Benjamin Coriat, France ; Professor of Economics at the University Paris 13
• Vladimir Cvijanović, Croatia ; member of Group 22 (think tank dedicated to green/left progressive politics)

D

• GiacomO D’Alisa; Italy/Spain , Research fellow at the Institute of Science and Environmental Technology (ICTA) of Autonomous University Barcelona
• Daniel Dahm, Germany ; Executive Director of Ethical-Ecological Rating at Goethe-University
• Brian Davey, UK ; FEASTA
• Philipp Degens, Germany ; Phd student and research fellow in the Department for Cooperative Studies at the University of Cologne
• Daniel Dietrich, Germany ; Chairman of the German Chapter of the Open Knowledge Foundation
• Danijela Dolenec, Croatia ; University of Zagreb, teaching comparative politics and social science methodology

E

• Kai Ehlers, Germany ; focuses on political, economic and cultural developments in the post-soviet area.
• Jan Engelmann , Germany ; Head of Department Politics and Society at Wikimedia Deutschland e.V.

F

• Rick Falkvinge, Sweden ; Founder of the first Pirate Party
• Joshua Farley, US ; Ecological economist and Associate Professor in Community Development & Applied Economics and Public Administration at the University of Vermont
• Tommaso Fattori, Italy ; leader of the Water Commons movement in Italy
• Helene Finidori, France/Spain ; founding member of the Commons Abundance Network
• Marco Fioretti, Italy ; free software activist and educator
• Tim Flitcroft, UK ; Economics Working group in Occupy London
• Gary Flomenhoft, US ; Fellow at the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics and Research Associate/Lecturer Rubenstein School for Environment and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont
• Juan Freire, Spain ; Director of Innovation at Barrabés Next (consulting firm specialized in organizational transformation and innovation)
• Birte Friebel, Germany ; studying Cultural Anthropology and European Ethnology at Frankfurt University
• Lili Fuhr, Germany ; Head of department Ecology and Sustainable Development at the Heinrich Böll Foundation

G

• Julia Gechter, Germany ; Film maker, producer of the short documentary ‘Commons - the principle of sharing’.
• Nikolay Georgiev, Germany/Bulgaria; Organizational developer of Open Source Ecology Germany
• Jonathan Gordon-Farleigh, UK ; director of STIR, a community, co-operative, and commons-orientated magazine.
• Neal Gorenflo, US ; Co-founder and publisher of Shareable Magazine, a nonprofit online magazine about sharing.
• Eli Gothill, UK ; expert in alternative currencies
• Daniela Gottschlich, Germany; political scientist at Leuphana University in Lüneburg,
• Volker Grassmuck, Germany ; Sociologist and media researcher at the Leuphana University in Lüneburg
• Silija Graupe, Germany; Assistant professor philosophy and economics at the Institute for philosophical and aesthetic education of the Alanus University of Arts and Social Sciences
• Bernardo Gutiérrez, Brazil /Spain ; CEO and Founder of Futura Media, a glocal innovation network around openness settled in São Paulo (Brazil).

H

• Friederike Habermann, Germany ; Economist and historian, author and self-employed scientist. She works on intersectionality, global social movements and alternative economic systems.
• Dorethea Haerlin, Germany ; founding member of GiB (Gemeingut in BürgerInnenhand = Commons in citizen's hands) and member of the European Water Movement.
• Gwendolyn Hallsmith, US ; Director of Planning and Community Development for the City of Montpelier, Founder and former Executive Director of Global Community Initiatives
• Kevin Hansen, US
• Samer Hassan, Spain/Lebanon ; Activist, researcher and Assistant Professor at the Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Co-founder of the Comunes.org
• Hermann Hatzfeldt, Germany ; Forester, author on environmental politics and forest decline, Board member of the HKH Foundation.
• Johannes Heimrath, Germany ; Editor and author of ‘Post-collapse society’
• Silke Helfrich, Germany; co-founder of the Commons Strategies Group
• Wolfgang Hoeschele, US/Germany ; Published "The Economics of Abundance" in 2010. Now engaged in the Commons Abundance Network, [1]
• Santiago Hoerth, Ecuador ; founder and coordinator of the latinamerican collective Código Sur (www.codigosur.org).

I

• Franco Iacomella, Argentina, P2P Foundation
• Christian Iaione, Italy ; Editor-in-chief of Labsus.org. He has published articles in the field of public and administrative law, urban commons, urban planning and land use law

J

• Joe Justice, US ; Team Lead of WIKISPEED; a crowd-funded and crowd-sourced road-legal car company

K

• Gregor Kaiser, Germany, Activist against biopiracy and gene technology. Phd dissertation title: ‘Propriety and the Commons. Genetic resources and the quest for alternatives to intellectual propriety’.
• Margrit Kennedy, Germany ; author of Interest and Inflation Free Money - Creating an exchange medium that works for everybody and protects the earth'. [2]
• Effrosyni Koutsouti, Anthropologist, vice-president of the Documentation and Research Center of Ikaria and president of the Women's Cooperative of Katafygi.
• Nicolas Krausz, France ; Charles Leopold Mayer Foundation
• Gaelle Krikorian, France ; Leader of a working group on Access to Knowledge, i.e. Accès aux Savoirs, in Paris, France.

L

• Zofia Lapniewska, Poland ; lecturer & Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Center for Transdisciplinary Gender Studies at the Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

• Holger Lauinger, Germany ;Journalist writing about urban and regional planning, articles include ‘Reclaim the Commons’,

• Heike Löschmann, Germany ; Heinrich Boll Foundation ; head of department for International Politics ; lead person for the Foundation´s programmatic work on the Commons

M

• Ugo Mattei, Italy, legal scholar with commons focus
• David MacBryde, USA, participatory publishing
• Tomislav Medak, Croatia ; organizes theory and publishing activities for Multimedia Institute/MAMA, project lead of Creative Commons Croatia, and activist of Right to the City Zagreb
• Stefan Meretz, Germany, co-founder of the keimform.de blog
• Glyn Moody, UK, digital rights activist
• Camila Moreno, Colombia ; Creative Commons and IP legal expert
• Christa Müller, Germany ; Sociologist and director of the Stiftungsgemeinschaft anstiftung & ertomis. She researches and publishes about sustainable lifestyles, urban gardening and sustainable concepts of welfare.
• Tara Mulqueen, UK ; Phd student at Birbeck University of London. Her dissertation title is: Co-operation and Social economy in Critical perspective.

N

• Claudia Neubauer, France ; co-founder and director of Fondation Sciences Citoyennes, a non profit organisation located in Paris that aims at democratising sciences and technologies
• Kim Nommesch, Luxembourg/Germany ; Conference Assistant at the Heinrich Böll Foundation
• Tsewang Norbu, Germany ; Heinrich Böll Foundation

P

• Andrew Paterson, Scotland / Finland ; co-organizer of Pixelache festival and researcher into traditional baltic/scandinavian commons practices
• Jukka Peltokoski, Finland ; Educational producer and political researcher KSL Civic Association for Adult Learning.
• Elizabeth Peredo, Bolivia ; Executive Director of Solon Foundation based in La Paz and works on water, economy, culture and feminist issues."
• George Pór, UK ; Co-Director of the School of Commoning

R

• Eva Ressel ,Germany ; freelancing facilitator, consultant, process coach, action researcher of transition projects and team member of Impuls - Agency for Applied Utopia [3].
• Nancy Roof, US ; Founder of "Kosmos Journal: The Journal for World Citizens Creating the New Civilization" in consultative status with the United Nations.
• Richard Rosen, US ; Executive Vice-President and a founding member of Tellus Institute (research and policy organization working towards a sustainable, just, and livable global civilization).
• Alain Ruche , Belgium ; EU offical working on strategic issues with the Secretary General of the EU External Service. Concerned with actions inspired with new ideas and out of the box thinking.

S

• Wolfgang Sachs, Germany ; Senior Research Fellow at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy
• Hendro Sangkoyo, Indonesia ; Based in Jakarta, Indonesia, cofounder and principal researcher at the School of Democratic Economics
• Gerhard Scherhorn, Germany ; Consultant at the Wuppertal Institute, former head of the working group ‘New models of wealth’ and ‘Sustainable production and consumption’
• Thomas Schlechte, Germany ; Economist. Freelancer at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy (Research Group: Sustainable Production and Consumption)
• Ludwig Schuster, Germany ; German Open Money advocate, with particular interest in Monetary Regionalisation and energy-backed currencies
• Siegfried Schroeder, Germany ; Political scientist. Director of East African Regional Office of the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Dar es Salaam
• Orsan Senalp, Netherlands / Turkey ; social movement and labour activist, promotes P2P-oriented Social Network Unionism
• Anna Seravalli, Italy ; Design researcher with a background in industrial and service design based at MEDEA Malmö Unversity where she is part of the Malmö Living Labs
• Christian Siefkes, Germany ; Freelance software engineer and author with research interest in the emancipatory potential of free software, open hardware, and other forms of commons-based peer production, Co-founder and blogger on keimform.de
• Anne Snick, Belgium ; Department Coordinator in the Flora Network of Expertise on Gender, Sustainability and Interconnected Economics. Her research interests are gender, commons-based peer-production and systems thinking.
• Felix Stalder, Switzerland ; Lecturer at the Insitute for Contemporary Art Research at the Zurich University of Arts with a focus on media economics and co-founder of Openflows (an international open source research and development network).
• Ulrich Steinvorth, Germany ; Philosopher and chair at Bilkent University in Ankara, professor of philosophy at the University of Hamburg.
• Frederic Sultan, France ; coordinator of Remix the Commons

T

• Jia Lyng Tang, Germany ; Research Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Sustainability Studies (IASS Potsdam). Coordinator in Berlin of the Young Scholars Initiative (YSI Commons)
• Wouter Tebbens, Netherlands ; president of the Free Knowledge Institute and Free Technology Academy ; co-founded the Escuela de los Commons in Barcelona
• Hans Thie, Germany ;Advisor on economic policy for DIE LINKE (Left Party) in the German Bundestag, specializes in renewable energy transition
• Benjamin Tincq, France, co-founder and Global Connector for Ouishare
• Tero Toivanen, Finland ; researcher into the political economy of the commons, co-founder of Commons.fi
• Alan Toner, Israel ; IP researcher and free culture activist
• Antje Tönnis, Germany ; Public relations manager at GLS Treuhand (umbrella organisation for individuals and institutions working on giving money for the common good),
• Stefan Tuschen, Germany ; researcher for Bread for the World - Protestant Development Service, sustainable Germany project

U

• Barbara Unmüßig, President of the Heinrich Böll Foundation

V

• Christophe Vaillant, Germany ; Designer and Hacktivist, Co-Initiator of Makerspace „Open Design City“ in Berlin.
• Nikola Vrdoljak, Croatia ; member of Group 22 (think tank dedicated to green/left progressive politics).
• Roberto Verzola, Philippines ; coordinates the rice farming network SRI-Pilipinas and the Philippine election watchdog Halalang Marangal, actively participates in the international CopySouth Research Group, and is currently writing a book on the political economy of abundance.

W

• Jay Walljasper, USA ; editor of ‘All That We Share A Field Guide to the Commons’, editor of Commons Magazine
• Hilary Wainwright, co-founder and chief editor of Red Pepper magazine
• Andreas Weber, Germany ; a Berlin based book and mgazine writer ; proposing to understand organsims as subjects and hence the biosphere as a meaning-creating and poetic reality
• Gerd Wessling, Germany , helping to bring the Transition model to Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
• Burns Weston, USA ; legal scholar, Senior Scholar at the UI Center for Human Rights, Co-director of the Commons Law project, co-author of ‘Green Governance: Ecological Survival, Human Rights, and the Law of the Commons’
• Susan Witt, USA ; Executive Director of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics

Z

• Raul Zelik, Germany ; Associated professor for Political Science at the National University of Colombia in Medellín ; author of ‘Vermessung der Utopie’ (with Elmar Altvater), ‘Nach dem Kapitalismus. Perspektiven der Emanzipation‘. [4]

More Information

• an earlier list of bios prepared for the program brochure is at http://openetherpad.org/BioForECC-ProgramPrintedVersion

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