Biography

Jerry Mander is the founder and co-director of the International Forum on Globalization, an international alliance of scholars and activists working to educate the public about the dangers of economic globalization. The IFG was one of the principle organizations of the major Seattle teach-ins and other events at the 1999 WTO meetings. Mander is author or coeditor of the best-selling books In the Absence of the Sacred: The Failure of Technology and the Survival of the Indian Nations; The Case Against the Global Economy and for a Turn Toward the Local (with Edward Goldsmith); Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television; and Alternatives to Economic Globalization: A Better World is Possible(with John Cavanagh). He is also co-editor, with Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, of Paradigm Wars: Indigenous Resistance to Globalization(Sierra Club Books).

In the 1960s Mander was 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 among other campaigns. His environmental advertising campaigns have been cited several times as having been a major factor in the early growth of the U.S. environmental movement, leading the Wall Street Journal to label him, "the Ralph Nader of advertising." Mander holds degrees from the University of Pennsylvania Wharton School of Business, and from Columbia University Graduate Business School in International Economics.