Jun 13th: Hazel Henderson
By Michael Vail. Filed in Calendar Updates, Interviews |Tags: ethical markets, hazel henderson, interview, vantage point
Dr. Hazel Henderson is an independent futurist, syndicated columnist, and consultant on sustainable development in over thirty countries. Her editorial columns are syndicated by InterPress Services worldwide. She has published articles in over 250 journals, magazines and newspapers including The Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, The Christian Science Monitor, Mainichi (Japan), El Diario (Venezuela), Australian Financial Review, and World Economic Herald.
Picture of Hazel Henderson Her books have been translated into German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Portuguese, Korean, Swedish, and Chinese. The first version of her Country Futures IndicatorsTM (an alternative to gross national product) launched in 1996 as a coventure with the Calvert Group, Inc., as the Calvert-Henderson Quality-of-Life Indicators.
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Henderson serves on the advisory boards of many organizations, including the Calvert Social Investment Fund, the Cousteau Society, the Council on Economic Priorities, and the Worldwatch Institute. She also serves on several editorial boards, including WorldPaper (an insert in twenty-five newspapers distributed in Asia, Latin America, China, Japan, Russia, Africa, and the Middle East), Futures Research Quarterly, and Futures (U.K.).
She served on the World Business Council for Sustainable Development Task Force on Eco-Efficiency in Global Capital Markets (Geneva) and is a fellow of the World Business Academy. Henderson also serves on the Global Commission to Fund the United Nations and coedited its first report (with Harland Cleveland and Inge Kaul) as a special issue of Futures, "The United Nations at Fifty: Policy and Financing Alternatives" (Elsevier Scientific Ltd., U.K., March 1995). U.S. edition, $12.95 postage and handling included, is available from the Global Commission to Fund the U.N., 1511 K St. NW, Suite 1120, Washington, D.C. 20005
She has been a Regent's Lecturer at the University of California (Santa Barbara), held the Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at the University of California (Berkeley), and served on the U.S. Congressional Office of Technology Assessment Advisory Council from 1974 to 1980. She is a member of the Social Venture Network, the World Future Society, the World Futures Studies Federation, and the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Hazel Henderson has authored several books, including Building a Win-Win World (1996), Creating Alternative Futures (1978, 1996), The Politics of the Solar Age (1981, 1988), and Paradigms in Progress (1991, 1995). ATI has a separate page devoted to books by Hazel Henderson.
