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SUMMARY:The green shoots of the new economy
LOCATION:London School of Economics: In-person and online public event (Gr
 eat Hall\, Marshall Building)
DESCRIPTION:Thursday 18 June 2026 7pm - 8pmSpeakersDr Frédéric BassoJuli
 e CalkinsAnuradha ChughAkshat RathiChairDr Abby InnesWe know that governme
 nts across the world are acting far too slowly in tackling the ecological 
 crisis across its many dimensions\, but can we usefully look elsewhere for
  radical action? Can we even find new solutions in in the most unexpected 
 places - from innovative firms and financial actors emerging in an otherwi
 se ecologically destructive capitalism?The panel will discuss whether SME 
 and large private firms and financial actors can develop solutions not jus
 t in technology\, but by more radically rethinking their social form and p
 urpose. Is it actually possible for firms and finance to buck the trend of
  destructive economic activity\, and if so\, how? What challenges do these
  emergent actors face in scaling up those activities\, and what do those c
 hallenges teach us about the next steps we need to take to develop a less 
 destructive\, altogether more regenerative form of economic activity and t
 hought?Meet your speakers and chairFrédéric Basso is Associate Professor
  of Economic Psychology in the Department of Psychological and Behavioural
  Science\, and Research Officer and Advisory Board Member of the Jeremy Co
 ller Centre for Animal Sentience at the London School of Economics. He is 
 also the programme director of the MSc Societal and Environmental Psycholo
 gy and member of the Post-Growth Transformation Lab at LSE. His academic w
 ork aims to apply\, improve and extend the literature on embodiment in ord
 er to promote a greater understanding of economic life and encourage trans
 formative social and behavioural change that will enable us to flourish wi
 thin planetary boundaries and in harmony with other living beings and Eart
 h’s life-supporting systems.Julie Calkins is a researcher and systems st
 rategist working at the intersection of planetary change\, risk\, and fina
 nce. Trained as an earth systems scientist\, Julie began her career with A
 ntarctic research before working on ocean and atmospheric modelling and in
 to public health. She has worked across UK government with Chief Scientifi
 c Advisors\, and as a Research & Policy Fellow at Wellcome Trust. She has 
 published research with NOAA\, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory\, and th
 e OECD’s Global Science Forum. She is also co-host of The Clearing\, a m
 onthly book club and discussion group focused on the regenerative economy.
  Julie is currently Sustainability Mission Director at Generation Investme
 nt Management\, where she leads foresight research and advocacy. Her curre
 nt work explores how ecological and social thresholds translate into econo
 mic and geopolitical instability - and what it takes to build institutions
  and markets that are fit for a just and sustainable future.Anuradha Chugh
  has over 27 years’ experience leading purpose-led businesses\, includin
 g as CEO of Pukka Herbs and Managing Director of Ben & Jerry’s Europe. S
 he currently serves on several boards\, including B Lab UK (as Co-Chair)\,
  Zebra Growth\, Routes Collective\, Toms Group\, and F&C Investment Trust.
  Her work explores how organisations can balance commercial success with e
 nvironmental and social impact\, embedding purpose at the heart of operati
 ons\, brand\, and culture.Akshat Rathi is an award-winning senior climate 
 reporter for Bloomberg News. He is the author of Climate Capitalism\, host
  of the weekly climate-solutions podcast Zero and writes a weekly newslett
 er. He has a PhD in chemistry from the University of Oxford\, and a BTech 
 in chemical engineering from the Institute of Chemical Technology in Mumba
 i. He has worked for Quartz and The Economist.Abby Innes is Associate Prof
 essor of Political Economy at the European Institute\, LSE\, where she tea
 ches the political economy of the green transition. Abby began as a specia
 list on the political economy of the post-communist transition\, and throu
 gh her subsequent work on the failures of neoliberal orthodoxy in the UK a
 nd on the green transition in Europe the complexity of ‘whole system’ 
 transitions in political economic terms remains the common thread. Her cur
 rent work is on regenerative economics\, specifically\, on how firms\, fin
 ance and public institutions can convert from the dominant neoclassical ec
 onomic methods and beliefs of the long twentieth century to strategies\, m
 ethods and values more compatible with a fragile planet and a thriving soc
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