Meet the DEAL Community

Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada

I am a volunteer organizer with the informal group - Imagine Lethbridge.  Our vision is to apply Doughnut Economic principles and practices to our community so that Lethbridge becomes the healthiest city in Canada to live, thrive and age well.   I am also the national VP of Advocacy for the Canadian Federation of University Women, with a vision that women and girls are educated and empowered to make transformational changes in the world, by promoting fellowship, continuous learning and empowerment to achieve educational and economic equality and social justice.   My work with CFUW advances the status of women.   I am newly a board member of the Lethbridge Community Wellness Assessment Board, where we review applications for funding by the social service agencies assisting those residents needing support.  

Denver/Lakewood Colorado United States

Healing thru Reiki, Shamanic Practices, Plant-Based Foods for Medicine, Support & Sustaining Active Loving Lifestyles, completely Re-Wilded "yards" now create a "parkland" in the middle of Neighborhood; Artist, Writer, and retired Attorney. 

Nederland, Colorado, United States

Mateo Beauvineau is a rising senior who loves to fish, ski, hike, and camp in the mountains of Colorado where he grew up. He is passionate about protecting the environment and is exploring the field of environmental economics through the IB diploma program’s Extended Essay. He volunteers at the local hospital and leads an environmental and international impact club at his high school, the Fairview Institute. He raised $17,000 for an outdoor greenspace at his school, which expanded to a tree canopy, as well as upcycled solar panels into solar charging stations which were sent to schools and soldiers in Ukraine. Mateo hopes to study  and environmental economics in college and likes learning useful skills. 

Indaiatuba, São Paulo, Brazil

Bióloga e Designer de experiências de aprendizagem. Criadora da NiDo Estúdio - ambiente para curadoria e desenvolvimento de materiais de aprendizagem e vivências centradas na natureza e sociedade [Biomimética e ESG]

Tirana, Albania

Organisation and management researcher, interested in contributing to management studies as a tool to tackling grand societal challenges. 

Germany

Manuel S. Sand is a professor of Outdoor Sports and Adventure Management at the University of Applied Management in Treuchtlingen, Germany. His research interests include adventure tourism, mountain bike tourism, well-being and adventure activities, nature protection and outdoor sports and the effects of experiential learning in the outdoors.

London, London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Director at Useful Projects (part of the Useful Simple Trust), a leading sustainability consultancy who is part of DEAL, trailblazing the transition towards a regenerative future.   Championing Doughnut Economics in communities, regions and the sport sector.

Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland

Hi, I am Melanie, a finance profesionnal for over 16 years after studies of Business Administration and some Economics.  In the last 8 years, besindes Finance, I was in charge of CSR of a SME in Geneva and my interest in sustainable business transformation gott bigger every day though often created conflictual interests with my financial objectives. I got increasingly ambitious in digging beyond carbon accounting in business' strategy and governance and beyond business in the bigger picture of the system we are operating and living in.  This is how I got interested in Donut Economics - quite late actually - and I was immediately fascinated by the logical and inclusive concept but moreover by Kate Raworth visionary and highly encouraging speeches. I am as well a big supporter of peer mentoring and collective intelligence for creating better ideas, innovation and engagement. As an enthousiastic cyclist in the city and in the mountains, I am very interested in mobility topics especially in terms of urban policies and transformation in my local environment and believe that the concept of the 15-minute city is part of the solution.    #15-minute city

84 Rue Marcadet, 75018 Paris, France

Technologically, I'm a fan of low-tech. Aesthetically, I find solar punk desirable. Professionally, I'm a strategic planner in the capitalist world, and I create strategies and narratives for brands, politicians and associations. I think it's important, as a society and as a species, to look ahead and dream of a desirable future. Especially in pessimistic times like these. I believe that hope is a powerful driving force, stronger than fear.  I like your economic, social and environmental diagnosis. Now it's time to create the narrative, to ‘visualize our future’ in order to create energies, synergies and make it a reality.  I'd like to be part of that. 

Sweden

North Devon

Lifelong concern for the planet and species . Interest in circular economy and reducing linear waste . Live as simply as I can with if societal constraints and infrastructure . Appalled at obsession with GDP growth model and its logical  conclusion . Heard Kate seaworthy speak on The Rest is Politics Rory Stewart , Alistair Campbell Podcast. Want to be part of the build to critical mass for change. 

Jaraguá do Sul, Santa Catarina, Brazil

Architect and Urban Planner, Master in Design and PhD in Engineering and Knowledge Management (UFSC). Post-doctoral student at the USP Global Cities Synthesis Center at the University of São Paulo's Institute for Advanced Studies. Founder and coordinator of LabIC Novale, a civic laboratory dedicated to facilitating participatory design processes for urban media and the co-creation of solutions to issues of shared concern at the local level. Leader of the research group A Cidade e a Névoa, which investigates hybrid urban spaces, civic technologies, participatory mapping, locative media and location-based technologies applied to the urban experience. Co-founder of the Children's Books Going Mobile project, which explores the use of mobile technologies in digital children's books to create situated narrative experiences. She is a member of the Australia-Brazil Network for Research and Practice in Smart Cities.

Ivry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France

I’m an American history-geography teacher at a bilingual middle and high school in Paris, interested in doughnut economics and post-growth solutions for the challenges facing humanity. 

København, Capital Region of Denmark, Denmark

I strive for having biodiversity and environmental aspects included as part of decision-making. Not as an add-on, but as an intrinsic part. The big question is, how? My idea is that perhaps the doughnut model could be used as a decision-making tool. So, this is what I am working towards. With a background as both a biologists (MSc) and Master in Business Administration, I hope to enhance systemic thinking and view all trade-offs in order to make better informed decisions.  

London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom

Bow - East London                          

Oslo, Norway

I am an experienced systems-oriented architect and consultant, now working in the public sector. I have earlier built and designed software that implements national-scale platforms for business-to-government interactions and public-private collaborations. My interests are in the exploration of practices that accelerate interventions in societal systems. Two sides of practices: Side 1: Shaping, implementing, and evolving digital infrastructures and Side 2: enhancing interdisciplinary collaborations that feed Side 1.

Tamar Valley AONB, Devon, England, United Kingdom

Hello, Business Development Officer for the Tamar Valley National Landscape, the purpose of which is to conserve and enhance the landscape.  We are developing a Nature First management plan to deliver our purpose enabling Nature recovery and climate adaptation across our landscape, mostly through extension of our partnership. We recognise that the scale and urgency of what is required is huge, and we cannot just tinker with the same old - new ways are needed deliver the impact required to noticeably change the momentum and avoid the worst outcomes. 

Scotland, United Kingdom

Community educator and author based in the Scottish borders, working on institutions as social models & 'dynamic theories' of social science. I can help organisations use the  Apprenticeship Levy for staff to develop  leadership  skills in  sustainability & campaigning,   Founded Democracy Matters, a UK alliance for learning practical politics, the Charter 99 for Global Democracy campaign which led to the One World Trust’s Global Accountability Project, and co-founded the Parenting Education and Support Forum.  Created and ran Uniting Humanity an EU Grundtvig trainer of trainers programme in global citizenship. Publications include Practical Politics: Learning for Democracy  for teaching political skills, Campaigning is OK! (2009) a guide to building capacity and resources for campaigning,  Learning Power (Campaign for Learning 2007),  Family Learning: foundation of effective education (Demos 1997), Citizenship Schools: a practical guide to education for citizenship and personal develop, and Unravelling Global Apartheid: An overview of world politics (Polity 1996):  see: https://bit.ly/APSAglobalapartheid

Campinas, São Paulo, Brasil

-Atualmente mestrando em Tecnologia Ambiental (Unicamp); -Formação na área ambiental, especialista em Segurança e Saúde Ocupacional; Sistemas de Gestão Integrada de Qualidade, Segurança, Meio Ambiente e Sustentabilidade; MBA em Governança Corporativa e em Desenvolvimento de Pessoas; -Atualmente consultor e auditor em sistemas de gestão (ambiental, etc); -Inspiração pela proposta dos novos olhares; -Entusiasmo pela colaboração ativa.        

Kathmandu, Bagmati Province, Nepal

  I am social activist with more than 15 years of experience in the fields of human rights, democracy, sustainable development and youth empowerment. Academically, I am a student of political science, having completed a master's degree. 

Tanzania

I am a (pr)academic working with young people to draw on their wisdom to resolve the wicked problems we face.

Karitane Beach, Waikouaiti, Otago, New Zealand

I am an experienced business owner and executive with many years of experience in both business and digital worlds.  I am a planner and a doer, I appreciate the realities and practicalities of owning a business, designing and delivering plans and projects, enabling business change and delivering digital transformation.  I have always enjoyed being part of a team, getting my hands dirty, solving problems, and delivering great outcomes for my customers.  As an Oxygen8 Consultant, I get to support and influence businesses that have ambition and want to grow. Being a believer in something has to change and knowing what DEAL is about I intend to use this Donut Economic Philosophy in my day to day work and ensure that my clients understand the importance of how they should grow their business and not just think about how much they should grow. 

Oswestry, Shropshire, England, United Kingdom

I’m an NHS clinical specialist physiotherapist working in genetically inherited diseases. I work at the Robert Jones and Agnes Hunt Orthopaedic Hospital.  I have an interest in health economics and how SES impacts health. I’d like to try and implement the ideas of donut economics in to our service and possibly influence the way our Trust views staff and patients.  . I’m also a very keen rock climber and runner. 

St Albans, Hertfordshire, England, United Kingdom

After 20 years as a senior programme manager at PwC, most recently leading PwC's Social Value Transformation, and in the context of a Climate and Nature Crisis that is unfurling right now, I want to help build a regenerative world. A world where human connection and experiences are valued more than consumption and materialism, and where our species can live in a regenerative way with nature and the environment. I see Donut Economics as a fundamental part of how we do this as a species.