Erinch Sahan
Erinch is the business and enterprise lead at Doughnut Economics Action Lab. His work focuses on transforming the deep design of businesses to enable them to pursue regenerative and distributive strategies. Working with 22 partner organisations and over 300 businesses, he has lead DEAL’s work to create the Doughnut Design for Business tool, which enables businesses to engage with the concepts of Doughnut Economics.
Erinch has been in leadership roles across business, NGOs and government. He was the chief executive of the World Fair Trade Organization, the global network and verifier of social enterprises who fully practise Fair Trade. He has also spent 7 years at Oxfam working in campaigns and programmes, including in creating and leading the Behind the Brands scorecard. Erinch has also worked at Procter & Gamble as a market strategy manager, established a furniture business and worked for Australia's aid programme in Indonesia.
Erinch is a board member of the Social Enterprise World Forum and the Finance Innovation Lab. He is also a fellow at the Post Growth Institute and a senior associate at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership where he teaches sustainable value chains to post-graduate students. He holds degrees in finance and law, a masters in international law and an honorary doctorate from Oxford Brookes University.
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Presenting Doughnut Econ to businesses (slides)
These slides are for presenting Doughnut Economics to businesses. They contain guidance, notes & various slide options.
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What Doughnut Economics means for businesses
This paper contains background & details on the concept of regenerative & distributive enterprise design. Authored 2022
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Place-based Doughnut Design for Business tool
Workshop for a group of local businesses to engage with Doughnut Economics through a place-based perspective.
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Doughnut Design for Business Case Studies
A series of case studies that explore real-world businesses through the perspective of Doughnut Design for Business.
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Integrating Doughnut Econ into business education
This tool is a rough guide that includes ideas & materials for integrating Doughnut Economics into business education
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Public policies to foster regenerative businesses
How policy-makers are transforming their economies by unlocking the potential of regenerative community-owned businesses
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Doughnut Design for Business - Taster Tool
The shorter, taster version of DEAL’s guide to redesigning businesses through Doughnut Economics
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Doughnut Design for Business - Core Tool
DEAL’s guide to redesigning businesses through Doughnut Economics - Core workshop
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Library of Things: Doughnut Design Case Study
A circular platform that enables communities, local governments and business to start and grow item sharing libraries.
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Maison Dandoy: Doughnut Design Case Study
Founded in 1829, Maison Dandoy bakes and retails fresh biscuits in Belgium.
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Inka Moss: Doughnut Design Case Study
Inka Moss S.A.C. is based in Junín, Peru. It harvests, processes, packages and exports sphagnum moss (white moss).
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SELCO India: Doughnut Design Case Study
SELCO creates energy access for under-served populations through tailored solutions.
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Taller Maya
Taller Maya is a collective of artisan social enterprises in the Yucatán Peninsula
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United Repair Centre: Doughnut Design Case Study
United Repair Centre provides circular economy services to the clothing industry.
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Amul: Doughnut Design Case Study
AMUL is an acronym for Gujarat Milk Marketing Federation - an Indian multinational cooperative with 3.6m farmer-members.
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Citizenfund: Doughnut Design Case Study
The Citizenfund is a participatory citizen investment fund that uses collective intelligence to support impact projects.
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Practitioners session: for those using Doughnut Economics with businesses
2025-10-06T10:00:00Z
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Upcoming Event
Business Session: Insights on using Doughnut Economics with businesses
2025-10-14T14:30:00Z
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(Past) Practitioners session: using Doughnut Economics with businesses
2025-05-21T14:00:00Z (Past)
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(Past) Practitioners session: using Doughnut Economics with businesses
2025-04-09T14:00:00Z (Past)
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(Past) Business Case Studies Launch
2025-03-05T15:00:00Z (Past)
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(Past) Practitioners session: using Doughnut Economics with businesses
2025-02-26T15:00:00Z (Past)
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Past Event
(Past) Practitioners session: using Doughnut Economics with businesses
2024-12-09T15:30:00Z (Past)
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(Past) Doughnut Design for Business - Practitioners exchange
2024-10-14T13:00:00Z (Past)
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Erinch Sahan
Thanks for Jayesh, have now corrected.
Posted on 'Doughnut Design for Business Training #1 (6 Jul...'
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Erinch Sahan
Hi Ger and Claudine, thanks for your interest. We've corrected the link so it downloads as a pdf now. Hope this works...
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