Hazel Henderson D.Sc. Hon.

Hazel Henderson is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, consultant on sustainable development and author of Beyond Globalization and seven other books. Her editorials are syndicated by lnterPress Service to some 400 newspapers in 27 languages. She has published articles in over 250 journals, including The Harvard Business Review, The New York Times, The Christian Science Monitor, Challenge (USA), Mainichi (Japan), El Diario (Venezuela), Australian Financial Review, World Economic Herald (China). Her books have been translated into German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Portuguese, and Chinese. The first version of her Country Futures Indicators (CFI®), an alternative to the Gross National Product (GNP), is a co-venture with the Calvert Group, Inc.: the Calvert-Henderson Quality-of-Life Indicatorssm (www.calvert-henderson.com). She was a founding board member of Worldwatch Institute (1975-2001) and serves on the advisory boards of Calvert Social Investment Fund, WETV, Ottawa, Canada (www.wetv.com), Cousteau Society, New Economics Foundation (London, UK), and on editorial boards including WorldPaper (an insert in 25 newspapers in Asia, Latin America, China, Japan, Russia, Africa, and the Mid East), Futures Research Quarterly, World Business Academy Perspectives (USA), E: The Environmental Magazine (USA), Resurgence (UK), and Futures (UK). She is a Fellow of the World Business Academy, and co-edited (with Harlan Cleveland and Inge Kaul) the report of the Global Commission to Fund the United Nations The UN: Policy and Financing Alternatives (1995). She has been Regent's Lecturer at University of California (Santa Barbara), held the Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at University of California (Berkeley), and advised the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment and the National Science Foundation from 1974-1980. She is an active member of the National Press Club (Washington, DC), Social Venture Network, World Future Society (USA), and a Fellow of the World Futures Studies Federation (Philippines). Henderson shared the 1996 Global Citizen Award with Nobelist A. Perez Esquivel of Argentina.

Henderson's Books Include:

CALVERT-HENDERSON QUALITY OF LIFE INDICATORSSM, Reference manual: Collaborative project with The Calvert Group, Bethesda, MD; now updated regularly at www.calvert-henderson.com.
BEYOND GLOBALIZATION: Shaping a Sustainable Global Economy: Produced for the New Economics Foundation One of the "Ten Best Books of 2000", Future Survey A systematic, well-researched agenda—from global to local—to tame today's rampant forces of globalization.
BUILDING A WIN-WIN WORLD: Life Beyond Global Economic Warfare: Well-documented analysis points to a creative possible future in which cooperation becomes the most dynamic force in the world economy.
PARADIGMS IN PROGRESS: Life Beyond Economics: A hopeful world future is already apparent in pragmatic, ethical and creative solutions people are applying to economic and environmental issues from the personal to the global.
THE UNITED NATIONS: Policy And Financing Alternatives: New international agreements and fees on use of global resources can provide new revenue to enable a restructured United Nations to pursue more equitable and sustainable development. Co-Editor with Harlan Cleveland and Inge Kaul (Elsevier Science Ltd., UK, 1995).
CREATING ALTERNATIVE FUTURES: The End of Economics: The collected writings which pioneered many of today's debates on how to reformulate economic theories to guide industrial societies on healthier paths toward more equitable, ecologically sustainable human development.
THE POLITICS OF THE SOLAR AGE: Alternatives to Economics: A new edition of the award-winning classic. How economics ('politics in disguise') really works and what is required to build a sensible economic system within environmental limits to build a sensible economic system within environmental limits.
REDEFINING WEALTH & PROGRESS: The Caracas Report on Alternative Development Indicators: How we count determines what we get; counting only dollars, as in the GNP, has led to much human and environmental damage. Key contributors to the debate, including Hazel Henderson, discuss alternative models on how to measure the Quality of Life.