Graeme Maxton

Graeme Maxton

Graeme Maxton at 2nd International Energy Summit, Athens 2008
Born Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Nationality British
Occupation Secretary General of the Club of Rome

Graeme Maxton is the Secretary General of the Club of Rome, based in Winterthur in Switzerland.

Biography

Maxton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and is related to two prominent Scottish Labour Party politicians, James Maxton and John (Lord) Maxton. He was previously regional director of the Economist Intelligence Unit in Asia, with Booz & Co, Citigroup and American Express and was a visiting professor at Cass Business School between 1988 and 2002. After becoming a Full Member of the Club of Rome in 2013, he was elected Secretary General at the Annual Assembly in Mexico the following year.

Works

He is the author of The End of Progress, How Modern Economics Has Failed Us (Wiley, 2011) which was nominated for the 2011 Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. The book was translated into Chinese,[1] Czech and German, where it became a top-20[2] best seller.

Maxton's previous books include Driving Over a Cliff, (Addison Wesley Longman, 1995), also nominated for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, and Time for a Model Change, which was Cambridge University Press's Feature Book of the Year in 2004.

Bibliography

References

  1. ↑ Books.com Taiwan Retrieved 20 August 2012
  2. ↑ Spiegel Best-seller List Retrieved 24 July 2012

External links

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