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Mark Anielski

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Mark Anielski is President and CEO of Anielski Management Inc. (AMI) located in Edmonton, Alberta. As an economist, he works with communities, businesses and governments to help them assess, measure and manage their genuine wealth – the things that matter most to well-being, quality of life and sustainability. Mark is the author of the best-selling book The Economics of Happiness: Building Genuine Wealth, which was published by New Society Publishers in May 2007, with a second printing in 2009. In 2008 his book won two awards; the gold medal in the category of Consciousness Business Leadership at the Los Angeles Nautilus Book Awards and a bronze medal in the category of Economics at the Axiom Book Awards in New York. In January 2010, it was released in China. The Economics of Happiness provides a roadmap for building a new economy of well-being using Mark’s Genuine Wealth model to assess the resilience of human, social, natural, built and financial capital assets.

Alberta Venture magazine named Mr. Anielski as one of Alberta’s 50 most influential people of 2008. Mark is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Alberta, School of Business and teaches a course in Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Entrepreneurship. He is also a founding faculty member (sustainable economics) of the Bainbridge Graduate Institute in Washington, which was the first MBA program in the US dedicated to sustainable business practices and ethics.

Education

Mark’s post-graduate applied research focused primarily on natural capital accounting, measuring the value of ecological goods and services and developing alternative measures of economic progress, including the Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI) and well-being measurement systems.

Languages

English and German.



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