Javier Ergueta

I studied Government and Philosophy at Harvard, management at Stanford, and international relations at Johns Hopkins.  I then worked as a consultant at McKinsey and BCG, then at a variety of marketing, finance and corporate development jobs at Apple, and finally as CEO of a couple of startups.  I then taught IB History, Global Politics, and TOK for 20 years at a Quaker school.  All these perspectives concurred in helping me see the radical insufficiencies of economics as it is usually taught in high school and college.  My work focus now is on helping young people tackle the monumental challenges posed by climate change and other aspects of the polycrisis, and it’s clear to me that the stunted lessons so many of them take away from their academic encounters with economics is a major impediment to their success.