Graeme Maxton

Graeme Maxton
Graeme Maxton at 8th Environment for Europe Ministerial Conference 9 June 2016, Batumi, Georgia
Born	Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
Nationality	Scottish
Occupation	Secretary General of the Club of Rome

Graeme Maxton is the Secretary General of the Club of Rome, based in Winterthur in Switzerland. He is the author of two best-selling books, The End of Progress and Reinventing Prosperity, which was co-written with Jorgen Randers.

Maxton was born in Edinburgh, Scotland and is related to two prominent Scottish Labour Party politicians, James Maxton and John (Lord) Maxton. He was previously regional director of the Economist Intelligence Unit in Asia, with Booz Allen Hamilton, Citigroup and American Express and was a visiting professor at Cass Business School between 1988 and 2002. After becoming a Full Member of the Club of Rome in 2013, he was elected Secretary General at the Annual Assembly in Mexico the following year.

Maxton's previous books, co-written with John Wormald, include Driving Over a Cliff, (Addison Wesley Longman, 1995), also nominated for the Financial Times Business Book of the Year Award, and Time for a Model Change, which was Cambridge University Press's Feature Book of the Year in 2004.