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Tim Jackson
Professor Emeritus, University of Surrey & co-Director of CUSP | Ecological Economist | Author, The Care Economy & Post Growth | Circular Economy Pioneer
Professor Emeritus at the University of Surrey and co-Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP). Speaker Tim Jackson is one of the world's most influential ecological economists and the author of Prosperity Without Growth, Post Growth, and his latest, The Care Economy. Senior audiences hire him to rethink growth, design economies built around health and care, and chart credible paths beyond extractive capitalism.
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Tim Jackson biography
Sustainability speaker Tim Jackson is one of the world’s most influential ecological economists and one of the few public thinkers who has reshaped how policymakers, business leaders, and citizens talk about growth itself. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Surrey and co-Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP), an international research consortium investigating the economic, social, and political conditions for prosperity that does not break the planet.
For more than three decades Jackson has been at the heart of international debates on sustainability, working closely with the United Nations, the European Commission, and the UK government, where he served as Economics Commissioner of the Sustainable Development Commission. In the early 1990s, while at the Stockholm Environment Institute, he pioneered the concept of preventative environmental management, a foundational idea behind today’s circular economy. His landmark book Prosperity Without Growth was named book of the year by the Financial Times and economics book of the decade by UnHerd, and has been translated into seventeen languages.
From post-growth to a care economy
Jackson’s bestseller Post Growth: Life After Capitalism won the Eric Zencey Prize for Economics and offers a bold vision of a society organized around connection and meaning rather than profit and power. His most recent book, The Care Economy (Polity Press), goes a step further: it argues that prosperity should be defined in terms of health rather than wealth, with care—not growth—as the organizing principle of the economy. Jackson holds degrees in mathematics, philosophy, and physics, with honorary doctorates from Belgium and the UK, and was awarded the Hillary Laureate for outstanding international leadership in sustainability.
As a speaker, Tim Jackson is a calm, evidence-driven voice on the biggest economic and environmental questions of our age. Boards, governments, multilaterals, and global summits hire him to challenge the assumption that growth is always good, sketch credible alternatives, and help senior audiences think clearly about how to lead organizations and economies through ecological limits without losing their nerve.
Tim Jackson Speaking Videos
Tim Jackson - An economic reality check
Tim Jackson - Post Growth - Life after Capitalism
Tim Jackson Keynote Topics
In his most recent book, The Care Economy, Tim Jackson argues that the economy we have inherited is fundamentally pointed at the wrong target. If wealth becomes adversarial to health, and growth becomes inimical to care, then the metrics by which we measure success are quietly destroying the things that make life worth living. In this keynote Jackson invites senior audiences—business leaders, policymakers, and investors—to imagine an economy organized around the conditions for health and care, with implications for how companies value work, design services, allocate capital, and report on progress.
Drawing on his award-winning book Post Growth: Life After Capitalism, Tim Jackson takes audiences inside the conversation about what comes after the growth-at-all-costs model that has shaped business and policy for generations. He examines how the pursuit of profit has driven environmental degradation, inequality, and financial fragility, and presents a clear-eyed vision of a society that prioritizes connection and purpose. A required talk for any leadership team grappling with the tension between fiduciary duty, decarbonization, and long-term human flourishing.
Based on his bestselling book Prosperity Without Growth, this keynote offers a comprehensive examination of the relationship between economic growth, sustainability, and well-being. Originally commissioned as a report to the UK government, the book has been translated into seventeen languages and reframed the global debate. Jackson walks audiences through what a 'post-growth' economy could realistically look like—covering the nature of enterprise, the quality of work, the structure of investment, and the role of money—and equips senior leaders with a roadmap for the systemic challenges of our time.
Jackson's work on the circular economy goes back to the 1990s, when he pioneered the concept of preventative environmental management at the Stockholm Environment Institute. In this talk he traces how that early idea—that prevention is better than cure—grew into today's mainstream circular-economy agenda, the limits of how that agenda is currently being implemented, and what would need to change for it to deliver on its promise. A grounded, expert tour for executives, policymakers, and sustainability teams looking past the buzzwords.
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FAQs on Booking Tim Jackson
Why Tim Jackson?
Tim Jackson is one of the few keynote speakers in the world who can stand in front of a board, a cabinet, or a global summit and credibly question the foundations of how we measure economic success—without sounding utopian. As Professor Emeritus at the University of Surrey, co-Director of CUSP, and author of Prosperity Without Growth, Post Growth, and The Care Economy, he brings three decades of work with the UN, the European Commission, and the UK government to every stage. Audiences leave his keynotes with a sharper read on the limits of growth, a serious vocabulary for talking about post-growth and care economies, and the confidence to make bolder, longer-horizon decisions about strategy, capital, and policy. Book Tim Jackson through Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring this rare combination of academic authority and clarity to your next leadership event.
What is Tim Jackson best known for?
Tim Jackson is best known for reshaping the global conversation about economic growth, sustainability, and human well-being. He is the author of the bestsellers Prosperity Without Growth (named economics book of the decade by UnHerd), Post Growth: Life After Capitalism (winner of the Eric Zencey Prize), and The Care Economy. He pioneered the concept of preventative environmental management—an early foundation of the circular economy—and has served as Economics Commissioner of the UK Sustainable Development Commission and an adviser to the United Nations and the European Commission.
What is post-growth economics?
Post-growth economics is the field, popularized by thinkers including Tim Jackson, that asks what a successful economy could look like once we stop assuming GDP growth is the primary measure of progress. Rather than rejecting prosperity, it argues for redefining it: organizing economic life around well-being, ecological limits, meaningful work, and durable institutions instead of the relentless expansion of output. Jackson's research focuses on what such an economy would mean in practice for enterprise, investment, employment, and public policy in mature economies that already enjoy material abundance.
What can audiences expect from a Tim Jackson keynote?
Audiences can expect a calm, deeply researched, and intellectually rigorous keynote that pairs hard data with the clarity of a writer. Tim Jackson does not preach—he argues, with evidence drawn from physics, economics, and philosophy, and with examples from policy, business, and global institutions. Expect a serious challenge to default assumptions about growth, plus a credible vision of what comes next. Contact Aurum Speakers Bureau to bring Tim Jackson to your stage and equip your audience with a sharper way to think about sustainability, prosperity, and the future of the economy.
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