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Stewart Wallis

Stewart Wallis is a co-founder of the Wellbeing Economy Alliance (WEAll) and the co-author of A Finer Future. He is the previous executive director of the New Economics Foundation (nef) and International Director of Oxfam GB. Prior to this, he spent seven years with the World Bank working on industrial and financial development in East Asia and thirteen years working in business. He holds Master’s degrees from the University of Cambridge and the University of London and an honorary doctorate from Lancaster University.

Selected Publications
GTC Forum

Contribution to GTC Forum Toward an Ecocivilization

An exchange on the essay Toward an Ecocivilization

September 2026
September 2026

Our theory of change must include providing a compelling vision and building a big enough movement.

GTI Forum
Contribution to GTI Forum Memoirs of Global Engagement
May 2025

Scholars and activists reflect on the how and why behind their efforts.

GTI Forum
GTI Forum
Interview
December 2017

It becomes clearer every day that our economy is failing to serve people and planet. Stewart Wallis, former executive director of the New Economics Foundation, describes a new economy and new efforts to galvanize it.