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Gary Flomenhoft, PhD Affiliate Fellow, Gund Institute
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Gary Flomenhoft was an International Post-Graduate
Research Scholar (IPRS) and Centennial Scholar at
the Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining
(CSRM) at the Sustainable Minerals Institute (SMI),
University of Queensland. He received his PhD
in political economy May, 2020. His research
area is in ownership and governance of common
wealth, and investment of sovereign wealth
funds. He also remains an Affiliate Fellow at
the Gund Institute. Prior to enrolling at the University of Queensland, Gary was a faculty member for 11 years in Community and International Development and Natural Resources at the University of Vermont (UVM), serving as a Lecturer in Applied Economics, Renewable Energy, International Development, and Public Policy. He conducted many development projects in The Commonwealth of Dominica, St. Lucia, and Belize with students and local partners. He also originated and coordinated the Green Building Design Program at UVM. He had a secondary appointment as a Research
Associate and Fellow at the Gund Institute for
Ecological Economics under Director Robert
Constanza. His primary research was in public
finance for the state of Vermont including
green/environmental taxes, common wealth and common
assets, subsidy reform, and public banking. His 2013
report on Vermont public banking supported the “10%
for Vermont” legislation passed in 2014, which
allocated $35 million of state funds to local
investment. He directed the grant funded Green Tax
and Common Assets project at the Gund Institute for
seven years, where he originated the Vermont Common
Assets Trust Fund (VCAT) bill, which was submitted
to the legislature twice. His chapter on Vermont
Common Assets appeared in the book “Exporting the
Alaska Model”, which promotes the Alaska Permanent
Fund Dividend as a model for universal basic income
(UBI) around the world using Sovereign Wealth
Funds. He summarized the common wealth of
Australia as means for funding UBI in another recent
book chapter. |