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Peter EtherdenPeter Etherden was brought up in Oxleas Woods in South East London and is a UK citizen currently resident in Stockholm, Sweden and Rye, England. He was married to Ingrid Lundell from 1969 to 1984 and has two children, Linda (28) and Nicholas (25). Since 1993 his partner has been the Finnish artist Connie Lindqvist. He is bilingual in English & Swedish.
Peter Etherden attended 'Christ's Hospital 'Bluecoat' School' in Sussex, England from 1957-64, read engineering at 'Churchill College, Cambridge University' from 1965-68, business economics at 'Stockholm University' in 1970-71and development economics at 'Uppsala University' in 1974.
In the 1970s Peter Etherden worked on 'World Bank' feasibility studies in Africa and the Middle East and taught business and finance at the 'University of East Africa' before returning to the UK to work under Geoffrey Mulcahy integrating the British subsidiaries of an American transnational corporation with its European operations from 1975-1979.
In the 1980s Peter Etherden lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Business assignments included a proposal to the 'US Energy Department' on soft energy systems and a study of innovation and future shareholder value in high-tech/high-growth corporations for 'Smith Barney' of Chicago. Following graduate studies at 'MIT Sloan School' in industrial & economic dynamics, 'Energy - a Long Wave Perspective', was published and papers on 'Energy Flows', 'Energy Needs', 'Energy Policy' and 'Energy Strategy' presented to the '1981 Convention of Eastern Economists' in Philadelphia.
In the 1980s Peter Etherden taught organisation and human scale economics in Boston; created a course for teachers on the ecology of learning; and founded the 'Human Scale Institute' with Dr. Edgar Klugman of 'Wheelock College' and Anna Edey of 'Solviva Gardens' on Martha's Vineyard. In 1988 Peter Etherden moved to Canterbury, England and in 1989 authored a book on the future of European politics entitled 'The Rise & Fall of The Swedish Green Party (1982-1997)'. Other publications in the 1980s were 'Education for a Virtuous Society'; 'Birmingham as Number One'; 'Green Houses or Blue Moon Waves' and 'The Canterbury Papers'.
In the 1990s Peter Etherden worked as publisher & editor of The Cinque Ports Letter, a weekly broadsheet designed for web distribution; created 'The Private Papers of Crocodile Uppsala'and 'The Return of The Ancient Mariner'; and wrote 'The Troubadour Papers', 'The Wealth of Villagers' and more than 40 articles and reviews as a contributing editor to 'Fourth World Review', a political journal with an unbroken 25-year record of principled opposition to the Maastricht Agenda and the first political journal to publish James Goldsmith's writings.
At the 1997 Westminster elections Peter Etherden stood as the 'Referendum Party' Candidate for Oldham West & Royton and had the dubious distinction of watching 'New Labour's' Environment Minister Michael Meacher amass more votes than all the other candidates put together. In 1998 he joined 'Miljöpartiet de Gröna', the Swedish Green Party and in 1999 was a candidate for the party's list for the Strasbourg Assembly elections.
Peter Etherden works in Stockholm with 'Cultura Communications', scriptwriting and marketing English soundtracks to Swedish film makers; and in Rye as Secretary of Academic Inn Books, a loose-knit confederation of publishing partnerships run by its authors & illustrators.
From the beginning of 1999 Peter Etherden's academic base has been at 'Stockholm University' where he is studying European economic history and sustainable development in the Baltic region; researching large organisations, privatisation and information technology firms; and continuing his work on monetary policy development for the European alternative movement with colleagues in Brittany and England.
Copies of this document may be obtained from P.O.Box 36, Rye, Sussex TN31 7ZE, England
Tel: 01797 226397 Fax: 01797 224834
e-mail: peteretherden@cesc.net
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