Andrew Simms

Andrew Simms is the policy director of nef (the new economics foundation), where he also heads the climate change programme. He is also on the board of Greenpeace UK. For many years he worked for international development organisations and has written extensively on issues of climate change and poverty reduction. In the reports ‘Ghost Town Britain’ and ‘Clone Town Britain’, Andrew coined new terms and changed the debate on the impact of mass retailing on communities. He is the author of Ecological Debt: Global Warming and the Wealth of Nations (new edition, 2009); Tescopoly: How One Shop Came Out on Top and Why it Matters (2007); and co-editor of Do Good Lives Have to Cost the Earth? (2008).