John Perkins is a founder and board member of Dream Change and the Pachamama Alliance, both nonprofit organizations that partner with indigenous people to protect environments and offer global programs to turn the "death economy" into a "life economy." He was formerly chief economist at a major international consulting firm where he advised the World Bank, United Nations, IMF, US Treasury Department, Fortune 500 corporations, and governments in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and the Middle East. Since then, his books on economics and geopolitics have sold more than 1 million copies, spent many months on the New York Times and other bestseller lists, and have been published in over thirty languages.
