This need for 'capital accountability' would compel shareholders to be as interested in how corporations are accountable to stakeholders as they would be in either share price or dividends.

In his 2014 book Healing Capitalism, Bendell proposes a new way of respecting private property whereby ownership rights would place a duty on owners (and their fiduciaries) to maintain demonstrable accountability to anyone directly affected by their property. Īs of 2008, he had published over fifty publications, two books, and four United Nations reports. In the 2017 United Kingdom general election, he provided strategic communication advice to the Leader of the Labour Party. The report argued that luxury brands were not meeting the expectations of customers for high performance on social and environmental issues. His resulting report, Deeper Luxury: Quality and Style When the World Matters, was discussed internationally in over 50 newspapers as of late 2007. In 2006, Bendell worked with the World Wide Fund for Nature UK, analysing and ranking the social and environmental performance of luxury brands. In a 2011 TEDx talk he expanded his focus to monetary reform and complementary currencies, mentioning Bitcoin, and predicting that Facebook would launch their own currency. On account of this work, the World Economic Forum named him a Young Global Leader. He founded Lifeworth, a progressive professional services company mostly working with UN agencies and worked part time as an associate professor of management at Griffith Business School.Īfter his time consulting for the United Nations, in 2012 Bendell joined Cumbria University and founded the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS). He also became involved in the anti-globalisation movement, later writing a United Nations report on the conflict between business and civil society. He earned a PhD from the University of Bristol. He specialised on relationships between NGOs and business, pointing out their potential, despite the power inequities and the way in which business agendas tend to prevail over those of the non-profit sector. There, he helped to develop the Forest Stewardship Council and the Marine Stewardship Council. In 2019 he founded the Deep Adaptation Forum to support responses to hypothetical societal disruption from the perceived dangers of climate change.īendell graduated from the University of Cambridge in 1995 with a degree in Geography, beginning his career at the World Wide Fund for Nature UK. He regularly comments on current affairs and approaches that may help humanity face climate-induced disruption. He has written about monetary economics and the need for ' Deep Adaptation' in response to environmental crises. Jem Bendell is a British professor of sustainability leadership and founder of the Institute for Leadership and Sustainability (IFLAS) at the University of Cumbria.

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