David Cadman

I am a Quaker who loves the teachings of the Buddha.

By discipline, I was a an economist – of sorts – and, over the past twenty-five or so years, helped to create two consultancies that studied and forecast property markets, originally in terms of market performance and then in the light of sustainability and climate change. Alongside this work, I have had professorial chairs at the University of Reading and University College London (UCL) and a Fellowship at Wolfson College, Cambridge, where I worked with the Department of Land Economy. However, I would not really call myself an academic – just someone who has asked a lot of questions!

More recently, I have begun a quest to restore the word “holy” to our everyday lives – not least in the matters of love and peace, and have sought to find a way of being that brings us to participate in divine purpose. This has led to a number of publications the most recent of which are Holiness in the Everyday published by Quaker Books, A Way of Being, published by ZIG Publishing and Limits to Growth, published by Quaker Voices.

Extracts from my work can be found by clicking here

Work in progress can be found by clicking here.