Matthias Schmelzer is an economic historian, networker and climate activist. He is a postdoctoral researcher at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena and works at the Laboratory for New Economic Ideas in Leipzig, Germany. For many years he has been active in the global justice and climate justice movements.

His main interests include the political economy of capitalism, social and environmental history, climate catastrophe, aviation, and alternative economics. He is author of the award-winning “The Hegemony of Growth”, and his forthcoming book is entitled, “The Future Is Degrowth: A Guide to a World beyond Capitalism.”

Further information:
Academia.edu
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Nina Treu is part of the degrowth and climate justice movement and active as a coordinator, facilitator and networker. She is a co-founder of the Konzeptwerk Neue Ökonomie in Leipzig, Germany, and has been working there since 2011.

In her belief, the only way to achieve the much needed social-ecological transformation is by bringing different social movements together.

Further information:
Personal website
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Tonny Nowshin is an economist by training, development sector specialist by profession and degrowth and climate justice activist by passion.

She has been working to centre anti-racist and decolonial perspectives in the degrowth and climate movement since 2018.

Further information:
The Sunrise Project
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