1. Giorgos Kallis was born on 8 September 1972 and is an ecological economist from Greece.
14 Facts About Giorgos Kallis
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Giorgos Kallis is an ICREA Research Professor at ICTA - Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona, where he teaches political ecology.
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Giorgos Kallis is one of the principal advocates of the theory of degrowth.
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Giorgos Kallis's mother was a political activist, imprisoned during Greece's Military Junta, later a founding member of the Greek Green Party, president of the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims, and a candidate in Greek and European parliament elections.
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Giorgos Kallis earned a Bachelors in Chemistry with First Class Honours from Imperial College in London, where he continued to complete a master's degree in Environmental Engineering.
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Giorgos Kallis has a Masters in Economics from the Barcelona Graduate School in Economics.
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Giorgos Kallis became an ICREA Researcher in 2008 and since 2011 is a tenured ICREA Professor.
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Giorgos Kallis has published research on EU water policy and regulation, the history of water in Athens, conflicts in California's Bay-Delta, and climate change and water security.
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Together with Giorgos Kallis they applied coevolution to the study of water development and urbanization, and the coevolution of rural communities with their ecosystems.
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Giorgos Kallis has defined degrowth as a process of political and social transformation that reduces a society's energy and resource use while improving the quality of life.
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Giorgos Kallis is quoted by The New York Times as questioning that a global economy powered by solar and renewable energies can sustain historical rates of economic growth, arguing instead that combatting climate change requires 'managing without growth'.
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Giorgos Kallis has written for The Guardian, the New Internationalist, HuffPost-Spain, and La Vanguardia.
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In 2018, Giorgos Kallis published a new book on degrowth with Agenda Publishing, while Polity Press has announced a forthcoming book of his on 'the case for degrowth' for 2020.
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Giorgos Kallis's book argues that unlike how he is remembered, Malthus was not an advocate of limits, but of limitless growth.