Graeme Maxton


Graeme Maxton is a British economist and writer. He is the author, or co-author, of six books on climate change, the economic system and the automotive industry.

Biography

Maxton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and currently lives in Asia. Until 2018, he was the Secretary General of the Club of Rome based in Switzerland. He was previously regional director of the Economist Intelligence Unit in Asia, worked for Booz Allen Hamilton, Citigroup and American Express and was a visiting professor at Cass Business School between 1988 and 2002.

Works

Maxton is the author of Globaler Klimanotstand: Warum unser demokratisches System an seine Grenzen stößt which examines the causes of society's failure to respond to climate change and proposes radical solutions to bring the pace of warming under control. Maren Urner and Felix Austen were guest authors. Maxton is also the author of the German best-seller Change! Warum wir eine radikale Wende brauchen. The book examines the link between the economic system and climate change. As well as German, the book has been published in Slovak and English.
Maxton is the co-author with Jorgen Randers of Reinventing Prosperity . The book has also been published in Ukrainian and Italian.
Maxton is the sole author of The End of Progress, How Modern Economics Has Failed Us which was nominated for the Financial Times and Goldman Sachs Business Book of the Year Award. The book has been translated into Chinese, Czech, Romanian and German, where it became a Spiegel top-20 best seller.
Maxton's books on the automotive industry, co-written with Dr John Wormald, include Time for a Model Change, which was Cambridge University Press's Feature Book of the Year in 2004 and Driving Over a Cliff,, also nominated for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award.
Maxton is a regular contributor to the South China Morning Post and a number of other online and print publications.