Kate Raworth is an opinion leader and the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries which, since being first published by Oxfam in 2012, has gained widespread international recognition, helping to shape the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals. She is currently writing Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist, to be published by Random House in spring 2017.
Kate is a senior visiting research associate and lecturer at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, and a senior associate of the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. She was previously senior researcher at Oxfam, co-author of the UN Human Development Report, and a fellow of the Overseas Development Institute in Zanzibar. She holds a first class BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and a MSc in Economics for Development, both from Oxford University.
Kate blogs about Doughnut Economics and tweets @KateRaworth.