Einleitung und Moderation: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Barbara Stelzl-Marx, Institut für Geschichte der Universität Graz, Leiterin des LBI Kriegsfolgenforschung

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Professor DDr. John Fyfe has spent over 50 years working to help communities that are deprived economically. He is a renowned social economist. On the UK scene he has spent many years helping coal, steel and nuclear communities to regenerate their communities to compensate for the closure of coal mines. He continues to take a very real interest in the importance of energy policies to socio-economic development.

John has also spent over 20 years helping poorer so called developing countries to develop their own economies with ‚particular‘ reference to reducing inequalities. For over ten years he was responsible for much of the British Governments Aid Programme to some 56 Commonwealth Countries. At the policy level he radically changed aid policies and attitudes towards the notion of helping those countries towards self sufficiency and reducing inequalities.

This brought John into the training of world leaders to be responsible themselves for their socio-economic policies and development, among them Nelson Mandela. This included help in taking new South Pacific Nations to independence and his many years of support and active involvement in ending of apartheid in South Africa.

Whilst John has spent his life operationally trying to help those less fortunate in society he has also been recognised academically for his professional contribution to socio-economics and especially employment policy thinking and theories. He has held senior appointments and been honoured with visiting professorships at several universities including Amsterdam, Manchester, Oxford and at Harvard where he helped to introduce the notion of Corporate Social Responsibility for global business leaders.

John is happy to share those experiences of the past to those interested but especially where past experiences ‚might‘ be of some relevance for tackling the challenges facing our society today and for the future. Unfortunately at over 80 years of age health factors are limiting his travel. But several of his former students or those he has mentored come to visit John for a chat and advice on ‚their‘ challenges as current leaders in politics, business the voluntary sector or trade union world.