Dr. Robert Costanza is a professor of ecological economics and Vice Chancellor's Chair in Public Policy at the Crawford School of Public Policy at the Australian National University.
Dr. Costanza's work focusses on breaking our societal addiction to growth, replacing GDP with a measure of wellbeing and integrating natural and social capital in our economic decision making.
He is co founder and past president of the International Society for Ecological Economics, and founding editor of the society's journal, 'Ecological Economic'. He currently serves on the editorial board of ten other international academic journals. He is also founding editor-in-chief of 'Solutions' a unique hybrid academic/popular journal and editor in chief of 'The Anthropocene Review', and an ambassador of the 'Wellbeing Economy Alliance'.
