Rosie Collington & Therese Guttmann: THE INFLUENCE OF THE CONSULTING INDUSTRY ON BUSINESSES, GOVERNMENTS & ECONOMIES

Rosie Collington in conversation with Therese
Guttmann


THE INFLUENCE OF THE CONSULTING INDUSTRY ON BUSINESSES,
GOVERNMENTS AND ECONOMIES


There is an entrenched relationship between the consulting
industry and the way business and government are managed today.


Based on her book co-authored with Mariana Mazzucato, in this
talk, Rosie Collington will explore how our economies’ reliance
on companies such as McKinsey, Boston Consulting Group and
Deloitte stunts innovation, obfuscates corporate and political
accountability and impedes our collective mission of halting
climate breakdown – and what an alternative system looks like.


Rosie Collington is a political economist based
at University College London’s Institute for Innovation and
Public Purpose, where she is also completing her PhD. Alongside
her academic research, she writes for and has appeared on various
international media outlets including Al Jazeera, BBC Radio 4 and
The Guardian.


Therese Guttmann is a socio-economist at the
Ecological Economics Institute of the Vienna University of
Economics and Business Administration and conducts research on
socio-ecological change. After studying economics, she worked as
a consultant at Volkshilfe Austria and as a researcher at AIT.


In cooperation with WIENER VORLESUNGEN