Meet the DEAL Community

Northwich, England, United Kingdom

A background in software engineering, my primary focus is data science and machine learning. Broader interests include AI, the future of work, and lifelong learning.

Coimbra, Centro, Portugal

I am a writer, mother and mentor working in Arts for Systems Change.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

recognised and strategic creative thinker who has the passion and determination to inspire change, drive measurable business impact and foster a partnership environment. Excels in building long term relationships to create positive impact with a purpose.

Lausanne, Vaud, Suisse

I am a Managing partner of Strategos SA, a boutique consulting firm supporting positive change and transformation in organisations. Founded in 1997 in Lausanne, our company is mainly active in Western Switzerland and is very well networked there. I draw from a rich career spanning 30 years in government, international organisations, non-profits and the private sector. I am trained and skilled in project design & management, strategy development & execution, change management, organisational development & governance and participatory leadership. First trained as an economist (HEC UNIL), I completed an Executive Master in Management of Technology (EPFL) in 2001 and a Master in Business Administration – Marketing & change management (Michigan State University, USA) in 2007.

Oslo, Norge

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

Hi, I’m a co-convenor of Regen Sydney, a cross-sector movement to get Sydney inside the Doughnut. In my work as a Strategic Innovation consultant, I help teams & communities bring good ideas to life. I’m passionate about building resilience in the face of Climate Emergency and 100% committed to stoking the best of our humanity (imagination, curiosity, empathy, compassion, intelligence) to facilitate a just transition to a low-carbon future. 

Belgium

Interested in efficient politics and block-chain based participation.

Araçatuba, São Paulo, Brazil

A normal guy who was born in São Paulo state countryside, who has been a multidisciplinary leaner over the years and understands that life's sintropy is important to us all. The latest day to day project I've been contributing is Estante dos Comuns, a Commons Cupboard, where my family and I have been commoning while we distribuite compost made out of organic waste of our restaurant neighbour, giving it away in recycled containers through an upcycled cupboard hung in our house's wall. It is important to say that we hang the cupboard in the morning and go back to our working duties, leaving it alone and giving the walkers the autonomy to interact with it by themselves.

Dresden, Sachsen, Germany

Salisbury, England, United Kingdom

Pioneering systems solutions for shipping. Working collaboratively across the whole shipping eco-system. Solutions rooted in new economic dynamics of deploying (free) wind power, harnessed with recyclable, automated, intelligent wingsails to underpin new financial, leasing solutions.

Exeter, England, United Kingdom

In my voluntary capacity as Director of ESSENCE, the Exeter Social Enterprise Network I am a keen advocate of the social enterprise business model and champion for the incredibly significant benefit being delivered by social entrepreneurs at all levels of society. Using my informatics and analytical skills I have developed tangible social value measures that qualify opportunity for £10’s of millions of social and economic benefits to be gained from collaborative, early intervention / prevention and community focused wellbeing development. I see endless opportunities for those Public Sector, Charitable and Voluntary Sector / Social Enterprises seeking ways to digitally develop and enhance the benefits of the services they provide and for start-ups bringing to market smart work / life digital innovations and wellbeing development solutions.

Rhoon, Albrandswaard, Zuid-Holland, Nederland

I'm a man with a mission, I want to bring People and Possibilities together, by sharing knowledge in and arround my American schoolbus. I Believe that "The Unknown is the source of our Fears" DriveToConnect is the name of my Not For Profit Only company by which I want to build with others a better World. My compass are the 17 Sustainable Development Goals. After reading her book "The Doughnut Economy" in 2018, I become verry enthusiastic about her ideas and see this platform as an opportunity to speed up the SDG's

London Borough of Islington, England, United Kingdom

I’m an independent public interest practitioner in planning & housing development, advising central & local government, developers, community housing & land ownership groups. My advocacy of co-production & community ownership began in 1976, supporting a self-commissioned tenant management cooperative new build housing development for a London council, working with Tony Gibson, inventor of ‘Planning for Real’. In 2014/17, I visited the USA & Canada as a Churchill Fellow to examine different approaches to the co-production by the ‘state’ & citizens of housing & neighbourhood development, using community organising through Community Land Trusts (CLTs) to advocate for better housing & increased democratic participation in local decision-making. I write about all this at http://stephenhillfutureplanning.blogspot.com/. I’m an associate of the international Center for CLT Innovation https://cltweb.org/about/ We are keen to use its resources to help more communities democratise land ownership.

UK

I've been tackling waste, environment and poverty for 17 years. Set up a Charity in South Wales operating 14k Sq Ft Warehouse and 3 Charity Shops. After seeing a better way to prevent waste, and engage all the community in a Circular Economy Model, we partnered with the Author of the Haynes Manuals for Electrical Repairs of Appliances. We rebranded the course that was used for 40+ years and 4000 Trainees, to a Verification, Certification and now in Draft, a Qualification for White Goods Repair.  We won the Swansea Institute of Design, Environmental Improvement award in 2015 and we're about to launch our Soft-Launch Phase 1 SaaS Platform, in the form of an Appliance Safety Register, that introduces communities into a Community run model that tackles Poverty, Environment, Green Skills and many other Apps, solely for the Community where you live so that we can also donate real money to people in need, create more local Repair Jobs in a Cloud Based, Company Limited by Guarantee Model. Defra have given us a letter of Support and discussed options with us, on how we can work together, delivering metrics that will help form UK Policy to safeguard and deliver vital data to ensure the UK has the resources it needs. We're cloud based now and looking for citizens to Register their Appliances with us, so we can ensure safer homes, and create Professional Community Repairers where they live, to tackle much of Societies Challenges. It will be a full Circular Economy Model for your Community and we can see the potential for over 400+ LocalitEEE's, in the Uk, deliver what your community wants.  Engagement by UK Stakeholders and Citizens will mean this doesn't need funding, and eventually we want these owned by each community in the UK. If you want to engage with us, drop us a line an Register Your Interest in this short Form. https://zfrmz.com/Utz2aUvVp3PTCreJbA6o Through Citizen Engagement we can all deliver a Common Set of Tools belonging to our Community and we will be donating annual amounts to people in need, in your community that could with 60% engagement deliver £90k annually. See example Metrics from a Welsh Community See example Metrics from an English Community

Utrecht, the Netherlands

Hi, I'm Olette, passionate about positive, progressive change towards a better society and a healty planet. Main areas of interest are the economy and democracy. With WEAll Netherlands, part of the international WEAll movement, we work together with DEAL to create an economy that works for people and planet.

Haderslev, Danmark

I am a retired upper secondary school social science and technology instructor.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Kinanya Pijl is Assistant Professor in Private Law at the University of Amsterdam. Her work focuses on the role of law in sustainable finance and responsible business conduct. Kinanya has a preference for qualitative empirical research methods and has conducted extensive empirical research in the banking sectors in the Netherlands, Germany and the United Kingdom. Kinanya is involved in the ERC-funded project of Prof. Marija Bartl on ‘Law as a Vehicle for Social Change: Mainstreaming Non-Extractive Economic Practices’. Moreover, Kinanya is part of a collective of scholars who together make up a consultancy firm that help large companies improve their ethical culture. This consultancy firm, Principia Advisory, aims to drive deep and sustainable culture transformation in large companies by focusing on the root causes of ethical conduct and decision-making.

Berlin, Deutschland

As the co-initiator of Donut Berlin, I am passionate about co-creating regenerative and redistributive cities, and bringing Berlin into the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries. I am a polymath, I love learning across the fields of systems thinking, human development, technology management, and sustainable business, and connecting ideas in ways that create long-term value for people and the environment. My experience as a scholar, speaker, founder, author, lecturer, consultant, and community manager has taken me to 30+ countries and reinforced my commitment to collaboration across national, cultural, and geographical divides. I'm currently looking for opportunities to share, spread, co-create, co-develop, and manifest Donut Berlin, and I am always happy to connect with inspiring people, so let's chat! 

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

I am a Principal Consultant at Edge and a Circulab certified consultant. I bring 13 years’ experience in program management and facilitation, strategy, cultural change, service design / human centered design with a focus on circular economy. I have worked and led teams on large strategic transformation projects in France and Australia across government, telco and financial services. In 2018 I founded CircleCo a strategy and design agency dedicated to circular economy transition which is now part of Edge. For the past 2 years, I developed and delivered circular economy education programs, strategy and design for government, non-for-profit and social enterprises.

Cheshire

Director of Wild Rumpus a community interest company working at the intersection of arts and nature. We produce large scale festivals and events, often camping, always with a connection to nature and environment, taking audiences outdoors to change the way they look at and imagine the world. We believe that arts and culture have a unique role to play in helping people to gain new perspectives on the existential threat posed to civilisation by the loss of biodiversity on a level never witnessed before.

Stromness, Orkney

Retired to Orkney where my wife is from. Keen to live in the doughnut in this beautiful place.

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

We work with people who have half an idea, or maybe a whole one, and who don’t really consider themselves business material. We don’t work with the usual suspects. We go to where the businesses are, so we’re a little bit nomadic.

Skipton, England, United Kingdom

I'm currently the Lead Officer for the Climate Emergency at Craven District Council, in the Yorkshire Dales, UK.

Hull, England, United Kingdom

Irene Sotiropoulou is a heterodox economist based at the University of Hull, at the Energy and Environment Institute. She specialises in ecological, feminist, solidarity and non-capitalist economics, heterodox theories and practices about money and finance, non-monetary economics and sharing modes. For analysing everyday and folk culture with reference to grassroots economic knowledge, she has been awarded, along with Dr Ferda Dönmez-Atbaşı (Ankara University), a Newton Mobility Grant by the British Academy. She is a Fellow of the GEM-IWG/GEM-Europe and World Social Science Fellowship programs, and a Fellow of the Monetary Research Center (UNWE) at Sofia. At the Energy and Environment Institute, she works for the THYME project and her research is focusing on the existing bioeconomy in East Yorkshire with a special emphasis on farmers’ markets.