Anselm Görres

About Anselm Görres

Görres is the Chairman of the Forum for Ecological-Social Market Economy e.V. (FÖS), President of Green Budget Europe (GBE), and Owner and Managing Director of ZMM Zeitmanager München GmbH. At the industry level, he is a co-founder and Chairman of AIMP, an association of renowned interim management providers.

The PhD economist and former McKinsey consultant has long been committed to market-based environmental protection. Görres is the founder of FÖS (then the Association for Ecological Tax Reform), together with Henner Ehringhaus and Ernst-Ulrich von Weizsäcker, and the main author of the FÖS memorandum The Path to Ecological Tax Reform.

As an author, he has published numerous contributions and publications and is co-editor of the newsletters FÖS-News and EcoTaxNews.

In 2008, he co-founded Green Budget Europe as a European platform for market-based environmental policy. At his initiative, the DACH-wide cooperation project University Days for Ecological-Social Market Economy and Sustainability was established in 2010 with Prof. Radermacher, Global Marshall Plan, and Club of Rome. On January 1, 2013, the Ecological-Social Forum (ÖSF) merged with FÖS e.V.

In his lectures and statements at companies, universities, political bodies, as well as in the press and television, Görres draws fascinating parallels between environmental protection, politics, and economics, and always manages to convince with his extensive expertise and entertaining speaking style.

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