New Economics Foundation : Ask Biography

Organization information

Abbreviation

NEF

Motto

Economics as if people and the planet mattered.

Formation

1986

Type

ecological economics public policy think tank

Headquarters

3 Jonathan Street, London, United Kingdom

Executive Director

Policy Director

Director of Operations

Stewart Wallis

Andrew Simms

Elna Kotze

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The New Economics Foundation (NEF) is an independent British think-tank.

NEF was founded in 1986 by the leaders of The Other Economic Summit (TOES) with the aim of working for a "new model of wealth creation, based on equality, diversity and economic stability".

NEF now claims to be "one of the two or three biggest think-tanks in the UK, with an international profile, an enthusiastic group of supporters, and a high reputation among opinion-formers".

The foundation has 50 staff in London and is active at a range of different levels. Its programmes include work on well-being, new kinds of measurement and evaluation, sustainable local regeneration, new forms of finance and new business models, sustainable public services, and the economics of climate change.