Mark is an expert in measuring the sustainable well-being of communities, having  developed the Genuine Wealth model and Genuine Progress Indicators (GPI) as new well-being evaluation tools.  He is also recognized as one of the world’s experts in valuing nature’s capital in national income accounts and greening the GDP of nations.

Mark wears many hats as an ecological economist, entrepreneur, professor, author and president of his family-owned consulting firm, Anielski Management Inc. He has dedicated the past 25 years of his life to developing new tools for measuring the sustainability and genuine well-being of nations, communities, businesses and
organizations. In the Sept./Oct. 2004 edition of Adbusters magazine,
Mark was named a “rising star” amongst international progressive
economists.

Mark teaches corporate social responsibility and social entrepreneurship at the School of Business at the University of Alberta. He also teaches sustainability economics at the Bainbridge Graduate Institute near Seattle — the first MBA program dedicated to sustainable business practices and ethics.

For 14 years he served as senior economic policy advisor and expert in performance measurement with the Alberta Government. He has pioneered of natural capital accounting and alternative measures of economic progress, including the US Genuine Progress Indicator (GPI), the Alberta GPI Sustainable Well-being measurement system, and other quality of life indicators. He currently serves as a senior foreign economic advisor to China helping the Chinese develop green GDP estimates and measure their natural capital.

Mark is the past-President of the Canadian Society for Ecological Economics, a Senior Advisor to the International Institute for Sustainable Development and a Senior Fellow with the Oakland-based economic think-tank Redefining Progress. Mark lives in Edmonton with his wife and their two daughters.