Our guest speaker: Bob Thomson

Author Bob Thomson will be our guest speaker this Monday March 14 for our course EAS "Sustainable Relations". He knows about Suma Qamaña (this is in Aymara, in Quechua it is Sumak Kausay) and his latest article about Degrowth and the Pachakut'i can be found here: http://bit.ly/gpIZCK . Please read his article to be well prepared for his visit.

This is a very concise biography about Bob Thomson:

From 1994 to 2000, Bob Thomson was the founder and Managing Director of TransFair Canada, Canadian affiliate of Fairtrade Labelling Organizations International (FLO), a 17 nation certification body promoting a fair trade label for coffee and other foods/commodities. 

He was Co-ordinator of the Ottawa Food Security Council (now Just Food) in 2003/2004 and the Facilitator of the Export Credit Agency Watch network in Paris from 2005 to 2008. Bob has a degree in Civil Engineering (U of T 1968) and an M.A. in International Affairs (Carleton 1983). 

He has lived and worked in Peru, the Caribbean, France and Canada and has extensive experience with NGO programme and project evaluations, fair trade producer support, non-profit governance, housing co-operatives, computer assisted communications for civil society, and finance and the environment. He is currently involved in organizing an international conference on convivial degrowth in Montreal at the end of May 2012 and now calls himself a Slowcialist. 

Visit his web site at http://slowcialism.wordpress.com.