Introduction
Dan Coffey <dancoffeyecon@gmail.com>
Mon, Mar 8, 11:24 AM (3 days ago)
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IPL expertise: economic policy and inclusive and sustainable economic development.
An economist by training, I work across disciplines. I have particular expertise in the global economics and geopolitics of the world car industry, and am currently investigating sustainable forms of mobility with due regard to the environmental and ecological downsides of electric vehicle technologies as well as their advantages over gasoline dependent vehicles in reducing carbon emissions, including tensions around access to and control over critical materials like lithium and cobalt. (See for example: https://www.historytoday.com/archive/behind-times/road-again). I have participative research experience inside car plants, and am a member of the steering committee for GERPISA ('the international research network of the automobile').
I also work on industrial policy as a vehicle for evolving social practices of participative democracy, and on poverty and prosperity in global cities.
Expert
I am an expert on the economics and geopolitics of the world car industry, focusing currently on sustainable forms of mobility with due regard to the environmental and ecological downsides of electric vehicle technologies as well as their advantages over gasoline dependent vehicles in reducing carbon emissions, including issues around access to and control over critical materials like lithium and cobalt. I am a member of the steering committee of GERPISA ('the international research network of the automobile'). I have a long standing interest in industrial policy, including industrial policy as a vehicle for participative democracy, and am currently working also on the paradoxes of poverty and prosperity in global cities.
Fields of expertise: e-Transformation / e-Governance, Economic policy / inclusive economic development, Environmental policy / climate change, Infrastructure, Participation, Policy design and delivery, Reduction of inequalities / equity / poverty eradication, Social change / social transformations, Sustainable Development Goals