Global Donut Days 2025: Opening Session

About the session

Global Donut Days celebrate the action that members of the DEAL Community are taking in engaging with Doughnut Economics worldwide - in communities, in local government, in education, in business, and through many other approaches.

The momentum is inspiring, and yet 2025 has brought a new level of geopolitical intensity and instability to the world - from the rapid rise of authoritarian politics to military aggression, humanitarian crises and genocide, and to the sharp realities of climate and ecological breakdown - which makes the context in which this work takes place all the more challenging.

In this opening session of Global Donut Days we will hear from three determined changemakers whose work is engaged in place-based transformation, inviting them to reflect on why standing by the vision and practice of their work is so important in times such as these.

Session speakers:

• Imandeep Kaur, Co - Founder and Director of CIVIC SQUARE: Throughout her decade-long career, Immy has focused on convening and building community, the role of citizens in radical systemic change, and how we together create more democratic, distributed, open source social and civic infrastructure. Through this work she has discovered much about economic justice and broader injustices, the pivotal role of land and social/civic infrastructure in neighbourhoods, and the value extracted from communities through our broken investment models. It’s an ongoing journey of discovery, emergence and learning together.
• Prof. Tan Sri Dr. Jemilah Mahmood, Executive Director, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health: Dr. Mahmood is a medical professional with more than two decades of experience managing crises in health, disasters and conflict settings. Along with her role at the Sunway Centre, she holds advisory council roles in the Government of Malaysia in Climate and Higher Education. She is also an Adjunct Professor at Universiti Malaya, the Sustainability Advisor at Air Asia, and the national advisor of the Malaysian Red Crescent Society. Globally, she is a member of the boards of Roche in Switzerland, the Norwegian Refugee Council, Global Ambassador for the Humanitarian Grand Bargain, and the Climate Action Accelerator in Geneva. She currently co-chairs the World Economic Forum Steering Committee on Climate and Health and is a board member of the Global Future Council for Clean Air. She is a strong advocate of planetary health and sustainability and actively advises on Environment, Social and Governance in the advisory and board roles she holds.
• Kamana Beamer, Professor in the Hui ʻĀina Momona Program at the University of Hawaiʻi-Mānoa: Kamana serves a dual appointment in the Hawaiʻinuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge and in the William S. Richardson School of Law as part of Ka Huli Ao Center for Excellence in Native Hawaiian Law. Dr. Beamer’s research interests and
  publications focus on indigenous agency, governance, Native Hawaiian land tenure, Hawaiian resource management, and land and resource law of the Hawaiian Kingdom. He is also one of the fourteen co-founders of ʻĀina Aloha Economic Futures (AAEF), an initiative with the goal of uplifting Hawaiian values to guide economic recovery efforts. By prioritizing community-centered engagement, AAEF has advised economic development strategies centered around aloha ʻāina since April 2020.
• Hosted by Kate Raworth, Co-Founder and Conceptual Lead at Doughnut Economics Action Lab. Kate is an ecological economist focused on making economics fit for 21st century realities. She is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries. Her international best-selling book, Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think like a 21st Century Economist, has been translated into more than 20 languages. Over the past 25 years she has worked with Oxfam, UNDP, and in the Ministry of Trade and Industry of Zanzibar. 

How to register

Please use this Zoom link to register for the session. If you would like to know more about the session, or if you have any access requirements, please email us at donutdays@doughnuteconomics.org  

For your information: this GDD 2025 DEAL session (via Zoom) will be recorded and shared on the Doughnut Economics Action Lab Youtube channel. By attending the session you agree to the session being recorded. If you do not want to appear in the recording, please turn your video / camera off.

If you’re unable to attend the session, check back to our  website after Global Donut Days 2025, where we’ll share the recordings. Please note, as our events aim to connect the people in the DEAL community, we ask that you do not send an AI notetaker in your place.