Community Wealth Building (30/6/20)

Ethical Fields presents: 

Community Wealth Building webinar with Andrew Ward and Dr. Jose Ramos via Zoom.

30 June 2020, Tuesday

12:30 pm - 1:30 pm AEST

About the Speakers

Dr. Jose Ramos

José Maria Ramos has been a foresight researcher and practitioner for the last 20 years, is Senior Consulting Editor for the Journal of Futures Studies and is Senior Adjunct Professor at the University of the Sunshine Coast. He has taught and lectured on Futures studies, public policy and social innovation at the National University of Singapore (Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy), Swinburne University of Technology (Australia), Leuphana University (Germany), the University of the Sunshine Coast (Australia) and Victoria University (Australia).

He has over 60 publications in journals, magazines and books spanning economic, cultural and political change, Futures studies, public policy and social innovation. He has also co-founded a number of civil society organizations, a social forum, a maker lab, an advocacy group for commons governance, and a peer to peer leadership development group for mutant futurists.

He holds a B.A. in Comparative Literature, a Masters degree in Strategic Foresight and a Ph.D. in critical globalisation studies.

Of Mexican ancestry, he was born in Oakland, California and grew up in a very multi-cultural suburb of Los Angeles. After living in Japan and Taiwan, where he studied Japanese and Mandarin, he moved to Melbourne, Australia to be with his wife, De Chantal. They now live in Central Victoria with their two children, son Ethan and daughter Rafaela. He has a passion for the coupling of foresight and action, alternative globalisations and writings and research on cosmo-localization. This line of work connects him to the truth that we are all brothers and sisters inter-dependent on our planet and each other for our survival and wellbeing - our shared commons.

He is a director with Ethical Fields.

Andrew Ward

Andrew Ward is currently:

• Managing Director of Ethical Fields
• Treasurer of the New Economy Network of Australian (NENA)
• Co-Founder and Director of Incubator.coop
• Independent Director of Crowd Funding Institute of Australia (CFIA)
• Director of HenHouse.coop 
• Director of Wattle Street Ventures

Andrew can assist you with:

• Formation of co-operatives – communicating the business model and benefits.
• Member engagement
• Business planning
• Financial management/reporting, performance measurement and other value reporting
• Fundraising and farm advocacy – including supporting co-operatives to access capital

Andrew Ward was raised in and around Moree (NSW).  He commenced a Horticultural Science degree in 1998, but dropped out to pursue a business venture.  His family and friends remain in Agriculture and associated industries.