Fabian currently works at the Policy and Global Challenges department of MISEREOR, the German Catholic Bishops’ Organization for Development Cooperation. His focus is on the translation of critical, alternative concepts of economy and well-being into more aggregate, practical or political means of organizing an economy, such as policy and regulation, models of business and taxation, or the like. In public debates reference is often made to Buen Vivir, Ubuntu, Ecoswaraj (a radical ecological democracy approach in India) and other similar concepts that often concern life forms and collective actions on a small scale. But what would this mean for addressing employment, redistribution or financial markets in postmodern mass societies? How can the idea of post-growth economies be spelled out concretely enough to allow for actual political pressure or political choices?

Fabian received his Master’s (2002) and his PhD (2006) in International Economics from University of Tübingen. His PhD research explored Amartya Sen’s development ethics towards questions of environmental justice. His postdoctoral research at the Center for Development Research (University of Bonn) focused on power and morality in practices of international development. He has worked for the German Development Bank (KFW), where he was in charge of research-practice cooperation, as well as for the Institute of African Studies at the University of Leipzig, and as a freelance consultant with a focus on institutional analysis of development cooperation programs. Before joining MISEREOR, he worked for the German Development Institute, a leading think tank for global development. He has conducted research and analyses in a number of countries in Sub-Saharan Africa as well as in Palestine, Brazil and Georgia.