Susan George

Susan George is an author, the Honorary President of Attac France and Board Chair of the Transnational Institute.

Susan George, the author of some 15 books written in French and English and translated into many other languages was born in the United States and is a French citizen. She is Chair of the Planning Board of the Transnational Institute in Amsterdam, a decentralised fellowship of scholars living throughout the world whose work is intended to contribute to social justice and who are active in civil society in their own countries. Between 1999 and mid-2006 she served as vice-president of ATTAC France (Association for Taxation of Financial Transactions to Aid Citizens) and is now Honorary President of the association. Her two most recent books are Hijacking America: How the Religious and Secular Right Changed What Americans Think (Polity Press 2008; also in French and Spanish, forhcoming in Italian, Korean, Japanese and Brazilian Portuguese]; and We the Peoples of Europe [Pluto Books 2008; also in French and Spanish; forthcoming in Greek and Polish]. Another of her recent books is Another World is Possible if... (Verso, New York and London, 2004, available in many other languages).

Susan George's academic degrees are in French/Government (B.A.Smith College, United States); Philosophy (Licence ès Philsophie, Sorbonne) and Political Studies (Doctorate, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, University of Paris). An activist as well as a researcher and writer, she helped to lead the campaigns against the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) and the General Agreement on Trade in Services {GATS-WTO] with over 1500 "GATS-Free Zones" declared by local European governments. She has received Honorary Doctorates from the universities of Newcastle and the UNED [Madrid] and the first Outstanding Public Scholar Award of the International Studies Association.