Tim Jackson is an ecological economist, writer and former government advisor. He is Professor Emeritus at the University of Surrey and co-Director of the Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP). His books include Prosperity without Growth which was named as UnHerd’s economics book of the decade in 2019, Post Growth – Life after Capitalism which won the Eric Zencey prize for ecological economics in 2022 and most recently The Care Economy (2025, Polity). In addition to his academic work, Tim is an award-winning dramatist with numerous radio-writing credits for the BBC. His environmental drama series Cry of the Bittern has just been released by Penguin as an audiobook.
