Meet the DEAL Community

Manchester, England, United Kingdom

I have always worked in culture and during the last 10 years I have focused on environmental impact, climate change relating to our sector, cities and networks. I convene the Manchester Arts Sustainability Team – MAST, an award-winning cross art form network of over 50 cultural organisations across Greater Manchester. Our network is dedicated to taking collective action to mitigate the climate and ecological crisis through enacting change and environmental responsibility across the entire cultural sector. I represent culture on the Manchester Climate Change Partnership – the board which oversees Manchester’s Climate Change Agency and city policy development. MAST has been recognised as an international good practice by the EU’s URBACT programme and we are currently working with Manchester City Council as lead partner of C-Change. Through this we are sharing this practice with five other European cities. https://urbact.eu/c-change

Columbus, Ohio, United States of America

I am a cultural anthropologist and trained in economic anthropology and the majority of my work is focused on migration, transnationalism and more recently on changing foodways. Currently, I work with the Bhutanese community of central Ohio to determine sustainable pathways to bridging the digital divide.

Tel Aviv, מחוז תל אביב, Israel

A PhD candidate at the Technical University of Munich, Sustainability and Climate Policy Consultant

Hyderabad, Telangana, India

I am a Resilience evangelist I am keen to study today’s VUCA world through multiple lenses. My mission is to build a more Resilient world by engaging with global networks like DEAL.

Boat of Garten, Scotland, United Kingdom

I work in leadership and organisational development, coaching and facilitating experiential learning for change.

Ledbury, Forest of Dean, South West England, United Kingdom

I have been in financial services for over 35 years. In the last two years I have committed myself to understanding and advising exclusively on sustainable investments. I see my role as not just travelling with clients on their financial journey but guiding them on how to invest their savings and pensions into companies that support the UN sustainable goals.

Wien, Österreich

Hi all, I'm a social-ecological economist, sustainability researcher and activist in the Viennese Degrowth community.

Hanover, Niedersachsen, Germany

Hi, I am Elizabeth. I am very passionate about my involvement in a start up that seeks to be the change I want to see. Every day I learn a great deal about building a sustainable way of life. I currently live with my family in Germany but my heart and body is working in Africa for Africa. I have made it my mission to promote Africa's agri-business products. Africa is the continent I spent the most time in besides Europe, and in many ways, I wants to connect my home to the rest of the world by promoting value added export that contribute to eradicating poverty at the grassroot of high cash crops. I am energised by working directly with small-scale farmers in Africa, living with them on the farms, processing harvests together and so on. This priceless community activity that brings back memories from my childhood. reminding me of how little has changed across Africa when it comes to value added export of Agricultural products.

Stockholm, Stockholms län, Sverige

Growing up in a extractive economy, I always laid my own worth in how much I produced and contributed to my peers. Connecting self-worth to something external and disconnected from the emotional and spiritual side of life, I've always felt as if there was something missing with the world I was brought up in. I thought I did all the right things, were on time to class, kind to others and had goals and ambitions, but as I realised, this was not nurturing to my human needs. In starting my meditation practice, studying public health, and how all things are connected and integrated, I've realised that this is the path I want to to walk. Hi, I'm Felix and I'm a builder who wants to engage with others who value, health, connection and understanding in order to build a healthier and fairer world for everyone now and for the generations to come.

Tokyo, Japan

Adult graduate student at Rikkyo University in Tokyo under research of community centric sustainable and circular city development and the implication to local community.

Mumbai, Maharashtra, India

I am Mechanical Engineer working in Mumbai.

Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland

Agile Psychologist and Social Entrepreneurship Startup Coach

Frankfurt am Main, Hessen, Deutschland

Freelance Sustainable Action Support and Part of Frankfurt Doughnut Coalition

Bethnal Green, London Borough of Tower Hamlets, England, United Kingdom

Enthusiastic explorer and promoter of innovative ideas. Passionate about sustainability, circular economy, and philosophy for children.

München, Bayern, Deutschland

For years now I have been in the field of social-ecological transition and alternative economic systems. I like to get in touch with think tanks or active groups to exchange thoughts and realize local projects.

San Salvador, Departamento de San Salvador, El Salvador

Lisbon, Área Metropolitana de Lisboa, Portugal

Currently I am a visiting professor at ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa, teaching Environmental Sustainability for Business and Sustainability Science at different lic. and PhD programs. I am also a researcher at CSG-SOCIUS, ISEG. Now I am coordinating the Portuguese team of the Sustinafrica EU project. I hold a Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam, with a thesis titled Towards Strategic Sustainability Performance Evaluation. A study of Portuguese companies, an Environmental Eng. Master from the Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland, and a Dr. in Geology from the Universidade de Lisboa. Before my PhD I was an environmental consultant in Mozambique, Niger and Portugal.

Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada

Lanark Highlands, Ontario, Canada

Broad-spectrum Civil engineer, with a focus in the last 15 years on Water Resources. Have been studying Sustainability Engineering since 1996.

Lucerne, Luzern, Switzerland

Global nomad, Dutch national, Swiss home base, multilingual & multicultural background. 30 years international business, focus on responsible leadership, sustainability, strategy, design for change. Director & co-founder of Lifetreeglobal.com, oceanregenlab.com and other projects.

Maia, Norte, Portugal

The aspiration to be part of a paradigm shift towards a flourishing, just, and regenerative society, with no one left behind, is what moves me. Co-founder & CEO of SEEDS for Sustainability, originally from Brazil, lived in Sweden for 9 years where I got the Masters in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (BTH). Based in Porto, Portugal since Aug 2019. Worked twenty+ years in large multinational corporations, and also in public administration as the Secretariat of Institutional Relations in Brazil.

Walthamstow, England, United Kingdom

Artist emerging from a collaborative Bank Job (www.bankjob.pictures) to take on POWER - in a project bring community, solar and cultural energy production together to enact a green new deal now in our home place.

Lisbon, Área Metropolitana de Lisboa, Portugal

I am a social researcher existing betwixt disciplines - Geography and Sociology. I focus on work in society and young people’s futures and sense of place. I consider both, the decisions people make regarding employment in contentious industries in their local contexts as well as resistance against the same. I explore people's sense of labour and association with place, including any contradictions or conflict they may experience. I work across the contexts of Lisbon (Portugal) and Goa (India).

Freiburg, Baden-Württemberg, Germany