Beyond the Great Reset

Sohail Inayatullah, Ph.D., is a researcher at Metafuture.org, an international think-tank focused on creating alternative and preferred futures. Inayatullah has authored and edited thirty books, journal special issues and over 350 journal articles and book chapters, as well as contributed articles to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Peace, the Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy, The Macmillan Encyclopedia of the Future and the UNESCO Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems. His most recent book is “Asia 2038: Ten Disruptions that Change Everything”.

Helena Norberg-Hodge is a pioneer of the local economy movement. She is a widely respected analyst of the impact of the global economy and international development on local communities, local economies, and personal identity, and is a leading proponent of ‘localization’, or decentralization, as a means of countering those impacts. Her most recent book, Local is Our Future: Steps to an Economics of Happiness has been described by author David Korten as a “must read for our time.” The Earth Journal counted Helena among the world’s “ten most interesting environmentalists.” Since 1975, she has worked with the people of Ladakh, or “Little Tibet”, to find ways of enabling their culture to meet the modern world without sacrificing social and ecological values. For these efforts she was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, or ‘Alternative Nobel Prize’. She was awarded the prestigious Goi Peace Prize in 2012.

Byron Joel is an internationally recognized author, media presenter and leader in the field of Ecological-Agriculture. For over 15 years he has worked, consulted, designed and taught across four continents. He has over 1000 hours teaching/presenting on regenerative agriculture in Australia, the USA, Africa and New Zealand. He is the author of numerous articles and has been interviewed as a guest on the world’s leading forums including the Sustainable Masterclass Series, Regrarians Talk, Sustainable World Radio, The Permaculture Podcast, The Survival Podcast and more. He also hosts in own podcast, The Octarine Tree, which focuses on the meaningful connection between humanity, ecology and spirit. When not travelling the world like a real Agricultural Indiana Jones, Byron acts as managing consultant for Oak Tree Designs, focusing on the Mediterranean regions of his home nation, Australia, where he advocates for a greater recognition, honoring and implementation of Indigenous Australian land stewarding practices.

Clare Politano is a technologist and regenerative strategist dedicated to channeling resources to heal our communities and our planet. As a Core Steward of Terran Collective (terran.io), she focuses on bioregional organizing and building technology for a regenerative future. Clare works on partnerships and product development for open-source project Hylo (Hylo.com), the social coordination platform for a thriving planet. Her wide-ranging skills come from years working with nonprofits, tech companies, and regenerative businesses, including Regen Network, the Center for Science in the Public Interest, and the International Rescue Committee. Clare lives in Ohlone territory in the San Francisco Bay Area bioregion and studied architecture and political science at the University of Virginia.

Daniel Christian Wahl originally trained as a biologist and holds degrees in Biology (BSc. Hons., Univ. of Edinburgh), Holistic Science (MSc.,Schumacher College) and Natural Design (PhD., Univ. of Dundee). He was the director of Findhorn College between 2007 and 2010. Daniel lives on Majorca where he helped to set up SMART UIB and works locally and internationally as a consultant, educator and activist. Among his clients have been Ecover, Forum for the Future, Camper, Lush, UNITAR, UK Foresight and many universities. He is on the academic working group of the Global Ecovillage Network and has been linked to GEN for almost 20 years. Daniel has worked closely with Gaia Education sine 2007 and teaches on the the MA in Ecological Design Thinking at Schumacher College. His 2016 book ‘Designing Regenerative Cultures‘ has quickly gained international acclaim, his Blog on Medium is followed by nearly 20k people.

Richard Heinberg is the author of thirteen books, Senior Fellow-in-Residence of the Post Carbon Institute and is regarded as one of the world’s foremost advocates for a shift away from our current reliance on fossil fuels. He has authored scores of essays and articles, and delivered hundreds of lectures on energy and climate issues to audiences in 14 countries, addressing policy makers at many levels, from local City Councils to members of the European Parliament. He has been quoted and interviewed countless times for print, television, and radio, and appeared in many film and television documentaries, including Leonardo DiCaprio’s 11th Hour. He is a recipient of the M. King Hubbert Award for Excellence in Energy Education, and in 2012 was appointed to His Majesty the King of Bhutan’s International Expert Working Group for the New Development Paradigm initiative.

James Quilligan has been an analyst in the field of international economic development since 1975. From 1978-1984, he was a researcher and press secretary for the Independent Commission on International Development Issues, chaired by West German Chancellor Willy Brandt. Since then, Quilligan has served as an advisor and writer for leaders, governments and economic institutions in more than fifty countries. He is presently Managing Director of Economic Democracy Advocates, which promotes equitable and sustainable resource management.