Academic staff
Our team is dedicated to challenging current paradigms of short-termism, and realising pathways towards sustainable and inclusive prosperity through collaborative, cross-disciplinary research.
Academic Staff
Associate Professor
Deputy Director of the Institute for Global Prosperity
Co-Programme Lead for MSc Prosperity, Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Professor of Natural Prosperity, Sustainable Development and Knowledge Systems
Teaching Staff
Senior Teaching Fellow
Research Staff
Executive Lead, Prosperity Co-Lab UK (PROCOL UK) and Principal Research Fellow
Honorary Staff
Honorary Professor
Dr Albert Bressand is Professor (emeritus) in energy and international governance.
Honorary Professor of Practice
William Hynes is Co-ordinator of New Approaches to Economic Challenges (NAEC) in the Office of the Chief Economist at OECD which provides a space to question traditional economic ideas and offer new economic narratives, new tools, methods and policy approaches. He has led the NAEC work since 2016.
He previously worked as a Senior Advisor to the Secretary General, Advisor in the Sherpa and Global Governance Unit, Senior Economist in the Office of the Secretary General, Economist in the Development Co-operation Directorate and an Economic Affairs Officer in the Office of the Deputy Director General at the World Trade Organisation.
William is an Associate Fellow at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and an Applied Complexity Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. He has a doctorate from Oxford University and was a Marie Curie Fellow at the London School of Economics.
Arthur Kay is an honorary Associate Professor, author and advisor who supports various organisations building solutions for sustainable cities including Innovo Group. He is the Chair of the Royal Academy of Engineering Climate Roundtable and a board member of Transport for London (TfL), the Museum of the Home and Fast Forward 2030.
Honorary Associate Professor
Debananda (Deb) is interested in questions related to the organisation, management and governance of universities and the role of higher education in generating public outcomes. More broadly, he examines how knowledge production, dissemination and flows, as carried out by universities, startups, and organizational innovation units, can tackle public challenges and generate public value. He examines policies, systems, organizations, and structures related to knowledge and their effects on innovation and entrepreneurship, and professional work. Deb is also a full-time faculty member at the School of Public Policy, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi. He is an affiliate member of the Centre for Innovation Research (CIRCLE) at Lund University, Sweden, and is the Associate Editor of the Higher Education Quarterly journal. Find out more about Deb's work.
Honorary Lecturer
Solveiga is an inventor and entrepreneur with an industrial design background. She invented Mimica Touch, a patented temperature sensitive accurate food freshness indicator that reduces food waste and improves food safety. Solveiga is the Founder & Director of Mimica and was named MIT Technology Review's Inventor of the Year. She also is a founding board member of Fast Forward 2030 and consults on innovation projects for leading consumer and technology companies.
Visiting Professor
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