Alexander Petroff
Founder, Working Villages International
Petroff was born in the state of Maine, and graduated from Hampshire College in Amherst Massachusetts, where he did his graduation theses on rural economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. In 2005 Petroff founded Working Villages International, an organization aimed at building model villages for a post petroleum world, using the principles of village self-reliance, and concentrated, comprehensive development. In 2006 Petroff started Working Villages first model village in war torn Eastern Congo. Focused intensely on increasing the quality of life, and the happiness of people everywhere, Petroff’s model for development combines sound economic theory with many of the social values of philosophers like Gandhi and Schumacher, to create a sustainable model of rural development for the 21st century.
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