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Exeter, Devon, England, United Kingdom

With over 25 years of experience working in several areas across the built environment, I’ve shaped my career around a deep passion for sustainability, innovation and making a real difference. I specialise in strategy, risk management, reporting and transformation, with a focus on driving practical change rather than sticking to convention. From promoting net-zero solutions to supporting circular economy principles and rethinking how we design and deliver communities, I enjoy challenging the status quo. I take a collaborative and creative approach to engaging stakeholders, always aiming to balance environmental, social, and economic priorities. I believe bold ideas should translate into real outcomes, shaping places that future generations can be proud of. I am a self-motivated leader who thrives on turning ambitious visions into reality and making the impossible possible. Outside of work, you can find me building Lego sets, traveling or playing water polo. 

Budapest, Hungary

GreenFormation aims to trigger green and social transition and transformation. GreenFormation consists of dedicated individuals with a diverse background ranging from ecology through economy and policy to geography. It focuses on biodiversity and the well-being of society, sufficient energy use, socio-economic transition and transformation, as well as behaviour change. For this, GreenFormation carries out research, measures impacts, provides advice, and implements projects. It involves multiple stakeholders, builds dialogues and bridges, and brings experience and networks from both Western and Eastern Europe.

Orange County, California, United States

I wrote the Bread Standard and heard about this other economic systems themed around food and really like the ideas I'm seeing here.

Washington, District of Columbia, United States

I've spent the last 18 years working to develop organizations, public policy, and a diversity set of projects that advance regenerative futures and meaningful climate action. I'm currently the CSO at Climate First Bank. Prior to this role I served as a presidential appointee for the Biden-Harris administration at the U.S. Department of Energy, and before as the Chief Sustainability & Resilience Officer for the City of Orlando, Florida. My career also includes entrepreneurship endeavors such as founding the eco-action nonprofit org, IDEAS For Us, and an urban farming enterprise, Fleet Farming.

North Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

I'm excited to be bringing a place-based perspective from British Columbia, Canada. As Executive Director of the Outdoor Recreation Council of BC, I work to strengthen the connections between outdoor recreation, community wellbeing, and environmental stewardship. I’m passionate about putting the principles of Doughnut Economics into practice, helping communities thrive within ecological limits while ensuring that everyone can lead healthy, connected lives. My work focuses on collaboration with governments, recreation groups, and local leaders to create more resilient, inclusive, and sustainable communities across BC.

Morristown, New Jersey, United States

Believe in the common good Favorite quote:  “It is difficult to get a man to understand something, when his salary depends upon his not understanding it”.   Upton Sinclair My career in finance was accidental, but at it did keep me from wasting my time on a Phd in economics from a US university.  I spend 35 years in the financial markets, most of that as a global fixed-income portfolio managers.  I am astonished that anybody who has 'invested' in the markets can believe in the rationality or that they don't need strong regulatory oversight.  Free market orthodoxy created many of the of the challenges highlighted by the donut economic framework.  They won't create the solutions. Currently focused on the BS of global carbon markets  and working to install a new generation of leaders in the US.     

Chipping Norton, Oxfordshire, England, United Kingdom

I'm working as part of Oxfordshire Doughnut Ecnomics Collaboration (www.oxfordshiredoughnut.org.uk) to encourage Oxfordshire groups and initiatives of all kinds to use Doughnut Economics to make their activities more effective and impactful.

Doctor in applied human sciences from the University of Montreal, I undertake transdisciplinary research at the intersection of sustainability transitions theory, public policy, and social movement studies, with a particular interest for radical societal transformations and the acceleration of a just and equitable grand societal transition. Director of HEC Montréal’s Sustainability Transitions Ecosystem, I’m responsible for catalyzing innovative transition-based collaborations between the university’s various research centers and external partners from various sectors of society. With more than ten years of teaching experience in corporate social responsibility (CSR), sustainability and social innovation, I’ve also led the social impact incubation and acceleration entrepreneurship programs at HEC Montréal’s Social Impact Hub, where I also worked on consulting projects supporting municipalities and para-municipal organizations in the development public policies for sustainability and social impact strategy. Co-founder of two social enterprises in Permaculture design, I also sit on the board of two non-profit organizations in the fields of circular economy and food education. As a research-activist member of the Montreal Climate Coalition; I’m also engaged in various citizen-led transition initiatives at the neighborhood level. Holder of an MBA, I also have nine-year of corporate experience in business development for the multinational Procter & Gamble. I’m also an active member of ROOTS McGill, a research group focused on organizing towards sustainability. 

London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

I'm a student of Sustainable Development (MSc University of Sussex), an operations professional, a volunteer Recycling Champion, and a parent. I learn every day. I aim to contribute to solutions over problems.

Vienna, Austria

I am a team member of Donut Wien (Doughnut Vienna) and want to help bring Vienna into the doughnut. One of our core projects is to create a city portrait of Vienna, which shall serve as a compass for the city's transformation (and hopefully also as a model for further doughnuts in Austria and abroad).  Over the last 25 years I have been working in business consulting, international development cooperation, public R&D funding and as finance manager in small biotech companies.

An exploration of personal doughnuts, what are they and how could they work?

Downscaling the global concept of the Doughnut to turn it into a tool for transformative action in the City of Amsterdam

How communities are initiating the Doughnut. What’s similar, what’s different, and how might other cities “start well"?

Changemakers in Berlin, Brussels, and Cambridge shared their experiences bringing the Doughnut ‘City Portrait’ to life

As part of the “Brussels Donut” project, we downscale the donut at 4 levels, from macro to nano.

The Regen Melbourne network is proud to launch the report: Towards a Regenerative Melbourne

Juhi Shareef of Moonshot:City and Teina Boasa-Dean collaborated to reimagine the Doughnut from a Māori worldview

The London Doughnut Coalition (LDEC) has published its first City Portrait

How collective working is underpinning the emerging Devon Doughnut

Exploring methods to introduce the Doughnut with Devon, Guildford and Milton Keynes