I’m Aaron Cosbey, and Small World is my small consulting company. I focus on sustainable development policy and practice.
I’ve worked in that space since 1991, originally on trade issues, then adding investment, then climate change, green industrial policy and, most recently, mining. I’m trained as a development economist.
I am not, as you can tell from my bare-bones website, trained as a graphic designer.
Here’s my CV.
I have a few standing positions:
- Senior Associate, International Institute for Sustainable Development
- Senior Fellow, European Roundtable on Climate Change and Sustainable Transition
- Senior Associate, Intergovernmental Forum on Mining, Minerals, Metals and Sustainable Development
I’ve acted as consultant to a number of clients, including:
- Agora Industry
- Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade (now Global Affairs Canada)
- Canadian International Development Agency
- Centre for European Policy Studies
- Centre for International Governance Innovation
- The Commonwealth Secretariat
- Earth Negotiations Bulletin
- Environment Canada (now ECCC)
- European University Institute
- Hinrich Foundation
- Inter-American Development Bank
- International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development
- International Trade Centre
- National Round Table on Environment and Economy (Canada)
- New Zealand’s Parliamentary Commissioner for the Environment
- North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation.
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
- Overseas Development Institute
- United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
- United Nations Development Programme
- United Nations Environment Programme
- United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change
- World Bank