Jerry Mander Author & Editor

Jerry Mander is the founder, former director, and distinguished fellow of the International Forum on Globalization (IFG), a San Francisco-based think tank focused on exposing the negative impacts of economic globalization, and the need for economic transitions toward sustainable local economies. In addition to his role at IFG, Mander is the former program director for the Foundation for Deep Ecology, and founder and director of the Public Media Center. In the 1960s Mander served as president of a major San Francisco advertising company before turning his talents to environmental campaigns that kept dams out of the Grand Canyon, established Redwood National Park, and stopped production of the Supersonic Transport. He has authored, edited and co-edited many books including The Capitalism Papers; Fatal Flaws of an Obsolete System (2013), Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television (1977), In the Absence of the Sacred (1991), The Case Against the Global Economy with Edward Goldsmith (1996), Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible (2004), Paradigm Wars, Indigenous Peoples’ Resistance to Globalization, and  70 Ads to Save the World: An Illustrated Memoir of Social Change (2022). Carrie Pilto is an independent art historian and curator based in Amsterdam. Before moving to Amsterdam, Pilto served as director of Musée Matisse in Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France, project assistant curator at San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and managing editor of Point d’ironie editions in Paris. She obtained her masters degree in Art History from the University of Paris-IV, La Sorbonne. Her recent exhibition projects and book contributions include: Curator, Values: Investing in the 21st Century, Tropenmuseum, Amsterdam (forthcoming February 2023); Contributing author, The Museum of Mistakes, Patrick Frey, Zurich (2020); Editor and contributing author, Living with Matisse, Picasso, Christo..., Teto Ahrenberg and His Collections, Thames & Hudson (2018), Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing, Stockholm (2018), Flammarion, Paris (2019); Curator and co-editor, Enrico Baj: Play as Protest, Cobra Museum of Modern Art, Amstelveen (2017.)