Nick Meynen

Nick is a professional environmental activist with as job title “policy officer for environmental and economic justice at the European Environmental Bureau”. He’s also an investigative journalist and author of literary non-fiction books such as the book that both Naomi Klein and Tim Jackson recommended: “Frontlines. Stories of Global Environmental Justice”. His 2010 book on globalization as seen from Nepal, published in Dutch, is still a key reference work for Nepal. Meynen regularly speaks at universities, European institutions, NGOs and on television. He gives media training to political ecologists and ecological economists, and acts as spokesperson for the EnvJustice network. Meynen lives in Leuven, Belgium.

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