James Magnus-Johnston
Professor and Entrepreneur in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
James is a Professor and Director of the Redekop School of Business at Canadian Mennonite University. He completed his MPhil in Economics at Cambridge University where he studied the dynamics of debt cycles and modern banking; he's now building on that body of research at McGill.
BACKGROUND
James has worked in finance, in public policy, and in communications as an editor and translator in Asia. Most recently, he served on the board of the Assiniboine Credit Union, one of Canada's largest independent financial institutions, and was a Co-founder of Fools + Horses, a Winnipeg-based coffee company. He also developed the CMU Centre for Resilience, a learning and coworking facility on the CMU campus.
CURRENT INTERESTS
In addition to his work on debt and its impact on society, James tests the limits of leading-edge social and technical innovations in mainstream business and policy settings. He also uses problem-based pedagogies in applied settings.
PUBLICATIONS
He wrote a chapter for "A Future Beyond Growth," (Washington & Twomey, ed; 2016), an academic work outlining pathways for ecological sustainability.
He's also convened community-based research for Transition Winnipeg, the CCPA, the Winnipeg Chamber of Commerce, and writes editorials on a range of topics for Resilience.org, the Conversation, and the Tyee.