Andrew Simms is Policy Director and head of the Climate Change Programme at nef (the New Economics Foundation).

He is a former Youth Speaker of the Green Party<ref name=NEFBiog> New Economics Foundation biography</ref>

An environmentalist, Simms has written a number of reports on climate change, globalisation and localisation, development issues, debt (conventional and ecological debt), corporate accountability, genetic engineering and food security. Simms published a book in spring 2005 entitled Ecological Debt: The Health of the Planet & the Wealth of Nations. In spring 2007 Simms published Tescopoly: How one shop came out on top and why it matters.

Quotations

'Creative and compelling.' Larry Elliott, the Guardian

'Essential reading.' Head of the International Panel on Climate Change IPCC

On Simm's 2007 book Tescopoly

`Terrific...no one can read this book and ever think of supermarkets as benign and life enhancing again.' Rosie Boycott

`What should be done about Tesco? Many critics want the place banned and hemmed in by regulation...But ultimately the real trick is not to ban such places, but to create different desires in consumers, to reach a situation where people are sufficiently sensitised to the drawbacks of Tesco or Macdonald's that they won't want to shop there.' Alain de Botton

`Simms shows the creeping, invading, unsustainable world of the supershop, its tentacles strangling the life out of our communities. Read it.' John Bird, founder of the Big Issue and local-shop loyalty scheme the Wedge Card

'An eloquent and persuasive account of modern corporate greed, and how and why we should resist it...should make all but the Gordon Geckos of this world determined to do something about it.' Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall

External links

Home of the New Economics Foundation

From World Power: Ecological Debt: The Health of the Planet & the Wealth of Nations