Anthony Annett will invite his listeners to go through the ten principles of Catholic Social Teaching outlined in his book “Cathonomics” and show how these are aligned with social democracy. He will then offer some thoughts on what a reinvigorated social democracy might look like.

Anthony Annett is a Climate Change and Sustainable Development Advisor at the Earth Institute, Columbia University. Working closely with Religions for Peace, he leads the Earth Institute's initiative to strengthen the engagement of the world's religious communities in the climate change and sustainable development agendas.

Inspired by Pope Francis and motivated by what he believed was a crisis of ethics during the global financial crisis, he dove deeply into the Catholic social tradition and other approaches like the civil economy paradigm. This journey eventually led him to leave the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and into Cathonomics.