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Bas de Leeuw, Dana Meadows’ Sustainability Institute, U.S.A.
Bas de Leeuw is the Executive Director of Dana Meadows’ Sustainability Institute, and is grateful for being able to work with a dedicated multidisciplinary team of scientists, writers, project managers and trainers, who want to make a difference in our system called ‘world’.
Bas is a team leader, writer, facilitator and public speaker on issues of sustainability, environment, economy and energy. He likes to create and initiate, analyse and reflect, organise and inspire, communicate and balance. He is participating in the conference in his personal expert capacity.
He has worked in several assignments for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) between 1998 and 2009, based in Paris, France. With a young team of diverse nationalities (Australian, Austrian, Brazilian, Chinese, Dutch, French, German, Italian, Kazakhstani, Kenyan, Korean, Mexican, Norwegian, Peruvian, UK and USA) he initiated initiatives such as UNEP’s Sustainable Consumption Programme, the Advertising Initiative, YouthXchange, SC.net, the Life Cycle Initiative, and he set up the UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production. He was instrumental in promoting and designing the “Marrakech Process”, aimed at building an international ten-year framework of programmes on Sustainable Consumption and Production. As Head, Integrated Resource Management, he initiated in 2007 the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management (Resource Panel), chaired by prof. Ernst Ullrich von Weizsaecker.
Before joining UNEP Bas has worked for the Dutch Ministries of Economic Affairs, resp. Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment from 1985 – 1998, with responsibilities in macroeconomic policies, and energy and environmental policy planning. He has also worked for the OECD, and as a journalist and writer.
He is an economist, with a degree in macro-economic policy from the Erasmus University Rotterdam, The Netherlands, and lives in Quechee, Vermont.
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