3rd Tuesday June 2025: Wellbeing, Economics and the Environment
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WELLBEING, ECONOMICS AND THE ENVIRONMENT: Critical thoughts for leaders
How social technologies, diversity and inclusion can build sustainable economic and ecological wellbeing for all.
DATE: 17 JUNE 2025
TIME: 10:00-11:30 GMT
Your MINDSPARK contributors:
DR. YANNICK BEAUDOIN
Dr Yannick Beaudoin is a member of the Global Council for the Well-being Economies Alliance and is Director for Climate Change and Nature-positive Solutions with Alinea International. He brings a climate change, biodiversity and a ‘new economics for transition’ lens to the organization. He has also held the positions of Director of Innovation and for Ontario with the David Suzuki Foundation and Chief Scientist of UNEP/GRID-Arendal, a center collaborating with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa, located in Norway. He has also spent a decade in the mining sector with Falconbridge Ltd (now Glencore) and the Geological Survey of Canada. He has served on the boards of UNEP/GRID-Arendal and Rethink Sustainability Initiative. He is also currently serving by ministerial appointment, on the Canadian Domestic Advisory Group of the Comprehensive Canada-EU Trade Agreement.
Yannick applies a science of change and participatory social processes to a variety of themes that include: adaptation to uncertain climate futures; embedding of local, traditional and Indigenous knowledge in policy-, decision- and choice-making; enabling conversations and innovation for new development and economic paradigms; promoting a transition to a sustainable relationship between society and Nature.
He has worked with governments, local communities, industry, academia and other actors in over 80 countries to design innovation processes and approaches that increase human well-being while preserving and enhancing Nature. Most recently, Yannick has been facilitating conversations with decision makers around the world, highlighting various examples of beyond-GDP economics and post-extractivistic development paradigms and has co-led the establishment of the WEAll Can – Well-being Economies Alliance for Canada and Sovereign Indigenous Nations. Yannick holds a Phd and MSc in Marine and Economic Geology from the University of Toronto and a Masters in Economics for Transition from Schumacher College/University of Plymouth in the UK.
PROF. JIOJI RAVULA
Professor Jioji Ravulo is the Professor & Chair of Social Work and Policy Studies in the Sydney School of Education and Social Work at The University of Sydney. His research, writing and areas of interest include health and wellbeing, youth, diversity and inclusion, decoloniality and critical whiteness.
He has been involved and invited to author over 100 publications, including peer reviewed journal articles, scholarly book chapters, research reports, and opinion pieces.
Jioji is passionate about creating and implementing social work and educational research approaches that are engaging and engaged. Nuanced with a genuine commitment to the dynamic inclusion of cultural diversity and its differences, Jioji is super keen to create collaborative spaces for students, community groups and services.
Jioji is involved in various community based research and co-design initiatives, including projects that support health literacies across equity groups, enhancing service delivery models for young people and their families, promoting the involvement of diversity in educational settings and supporting the meaningful inclusion of indigenous perspectives and practices.
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