Development frontiers
Blog, 21 March 2016
Mick Blowfield was director of IIED's Shaping Sustainable Markets research group, the home for IIED's work on the green economy, environmental economics, sustainable finance, and the private sector's role in sustainable development.
Mick has lived and worked in more than 20 countries worldwide. He brings an anthropological perspective to understanding business in society, and to helping companies manage that relationship.
His work is widely published, and he has worked for many years on convening dialogues with the private sector and sustainable development, climate change, and other major challenges.
Blowfield has worked for companies, government, international agencies, and civil society organisations. He has been a senior researcher at Oxford and Cambridge Universities as well as Boston College (USA).
He is a fellow at Oxford and emeritus professor at Wolverhampton University. Among his many corporate clients are Accenture, Abbott Laboratories, Mars, Shell and Unilever.