Jem Bendell

• Founding Director
  The Institute for Leadership and Sustainability

Jem Bendell is the Founder and Director of Lifeworth. He is a strategist and educator on social and organizational change, with 17 years specializing in responsible business development, alliances for sustainable development, transformative philanthropy and sustainable currencies. With over 100 publications, including UN reports, he is an award-winning authority on business and sustainable development and has helped create a number of leading multistakeholder alliances. Bendell is a Professor of Management at two business schools (in Australia and Spain), runs a small sustainability consulting firm and serves on the board of an NGO, which is the world's leading provider of open source software for community currencies.