Her sister Sophie is a BBC journalist and broadcaster. In 2021, Raworth was appointed to the World Health Organization's Council on the Economics of Health For All, chaired by Mariana Mazzucato. In this role, she serves as a strategic advisor to the Doughnut Hub: a place where students, lecturers, and researchers, in collaboration with stakeholders in the Amsterdam area, develop knowledge based on the principles of her work. In 2020, Raworth was inaugurated as Professor of Practice at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. The book was longlisted for the 2017 Financial Times and McKinsey Business Book of the Year Award. Instead of focusing on the growth of the economy, she focuses on a model where there can be ensured that everyone on Earth has access to their basic needs, such as adequate food and education, while not limiting opportunities for future generations by protecting our Ecosystem. Raworth argues for a radical re-consideration of the foundations of Economic Science, and is particularly critical of the outdated principle of unfettered growth, in that it is destructive of planetary resources while ill-serving human needs including Quality of Life. Her 2017 book is a robust counter-proposal to mainstream economic thinking, and she advocates for conditions to create a sustainable economy. In 2017, Raworth published Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist which elaborates on her concept of Doughnut Economics, first developed in her 2012 paper, A Safe and Just Space for Humanity. She is also a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership, and a member of the advisory board at the ZOE Institute for Future-fit Economies. She is currently a Senior Research Associate, Tutor and Advisory Board member of the Environmental Change Institute of the University of Oxford. From 2002 to 2013 she was a Senior Researcher at Oxfam. From 1997 to 2001 she was an economist and co-author of the United Nations Development Programme's Human Development Report, writing chapters on globalization, new technologies, resource consumption, and human rights. Career įrom 1994 to 1997 Raworth worked promoting micro-enterprise development in Zanzibar as a Fellow of the Overseas Development Institute. She holds an honorary doctorate from Business School Lausanne. Raworth achieved first-class honours in Politics, Philosophy and Economics at the University of Oxford and followed it with an MSc in Development Economics.

She is Senior Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute and a Professor of Practice at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences. Kate Raworth (born 13 December 1970) is an English economist known for ' doughnut economics', an economic model that balances between essential human needs and planetary boundaries.

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