Meet the DEAL Community

Exeter

I am a passionate changemaker who believes that everyone has a very important role to play in generating corrective action to ensure respectful living in harmony with the earth. This needs to happen from a personal perspective of gratitude for the privilege of life and using each situation we face to find a better solution for what we believe we've already understood.

Norway

economics studing searching for the right path

Basel

I am Sustainability Business Developer working with SMEs, startups and people who want a more just and regenerative future. Working for Impact Hub Basel, I develop new formats and programs to achieve just that. 

Brighton

I am a yoga teacher, adult educator and charity worker.   I believe that we often try to buy our way out of unhappiness but can can reduce our need to consume through mindful movement practices such as yoga, breathing and meditation. 

Copenhagen

I just starten my MSc in Globa  Health at KU. Moving to Copenhagen for the first time and living abroad opens up a lot of opportunities to learn and grow. Which encourages me to engage in many different areas to find inspiration for my upcoming career path.  Ihave not learned anything about Doughnut Economics until today when I stumbled upon a lecture from Kate Rawoth which she gave in 2022. I was really inspired by it and I am eager to dive deeper into it and learn more about it. 

Chennai, IND / Boston, MA

Founder, Social Entrepreneur.  AI Product Manager.  Looking for ways to build sustainable and equitable businesses. 

Germany, France, Sweden

My name is Valérie M. Saintot. I am a lawyer (since 1994), doctoral supervisor (since 2022) with Gloucestershire University, adjunct professor (since 2021) with SKEMA business school, visiting lecturer at Bucerius Law School (since 2020) and Karlstad Business School (since 2023). I am also a certified mindfulness teacher (since 2005) and initiator of a mediation room at work (mindulness at work). I am an active member and ambassador for human-centric AI with the Liquid Legal Institute. I am member of a task force on AI in higher education with Z-Inspection. My studies and professional experience is at the crossroad of law, economics (20+ years as European central banker). At present I work on projecting the Doughnut Economics into Doughnut Law and Doughnut AI as the relation between human-artificial intelligence appear to me key to conceptualise. I build on analytical frameworks offered by mindfulness, neuropsychology, and philosophy. One side focus is my care to promote that citizens are informed and heard in relation to AI. I have developped with some peers a coaching format building on the Inner Development Goals to help promote the vision that the inner conditions of the leaders is key their decisions and societal impact.     

Oakland, CA

Progressive Forward Thinker Embracing the future with curiosity & care  Psychotherapist  CEAP certified employee assistance professional  SAP substance abuse professional  Artist, upcycler All level Health care administrator Facebook support group moderator Mom Gardener  Based in the Bay Area, east Oakland, CA. Born in Flatbush, Brooklyn, NY.

Sweden

I have been a product designer and user researcher for almost 15 years. Even though most of my experience has been working with digital products, I am becoming more interested in meeting and collaborating with more people and teams that work with innovation and sustainability, contributing from a human-centric perspective, and building solutions to different social challenges.

Hiroshima, Japan

I am a pharmacist and writer. I have mostly focused on medical writing but more recently have branched out into other types of writing as well as SEO. I discovered the degrowth movement this year through Jason Hickel's books and would love to get involved.

Stockholm, Sweden

Business Coach and Fractional CMO.  I work with educating founders and leaders to adjust to this new exponential era. Primarily interested in edtech, web3 and blockchain-focused startups.

Kansas City Metro Area

Kira Gould, Hon. AIA, LEED AP, is a writer, strategist, and convener dedicated to advancing design leadership and climate action. Through Kira Gould CONNECT, she provides strategic communications for leaders and firms working toward a regenerative future. She is a Senior Fellow with Architecture 2030 and volunteers with the American Institute of Architects Committee on the Environment, whose national leadership group she chaired (2007). Kira is the co-host of the Design the Future podcast with Lindsay Baker. She co-authored Women in Green: Voices of Sustainable Design (2007) with the late architect and author Lance Hosey, 

Miami, FL (USA)

I am always seeking to contribute to more regenerative/sustainable, ethical, and eco-socially just world. Doughnut Economics excites and inspires me for its potential to transform cities!  My career journey has taken me into multiple sectors (technology, tourism, urban planning, academia, community non-profit, arts), but in all this work I have never strayed from my focus on socio-ecological justice. I am a hybrid cultural anthropologist / geographer who is building awareness of inclusive and regenerative tourism and placemaking in cities, with strategies focused on benefitting (versus exploiting) local communities (and the environment). I have a particular interest in addressing the enduring legacies of colonialism and imperialism.  As an aside, I've also conducted in-depth research on  Miami, Florida's Little Havana neighborhood, where I still offer (private) walking tours with a critical lens ...   

Merseyside

Since my childhood (many years ago) I was passionate about the environment and fairness in the world. Then I became an adult and got a job, and fortunately met someone who loves me, we got married and had a baby girl. Still married and in love with my wife. Baby girl is now 21! My employers seem ignorant of the devastation we face and I need support and guidance to give me any hope for my Babygirls future

Surrey

I recently founded ResponsibleRisk Ltd to drive improvements in #SustainableFinance adoption and outcomes, via better understanding, #data and #solutions.    Previously I was in the Global Banking Industry strategy team at Microsoft. I am also Contributing Editor with Finextra on Sustainable Finance and a member of the TNFD Forum and data Catalyst. Advisor to Earth Knowledge Inc; Credit Nature; Elastacloud, RTGS.Global and WWF My sector and functional focus:   Retail, Private, Investment, Wealth, Asset and Commercial Banking;  Sustainable Finance building on Open Banking and Digital Transformation Technology Focus:   Data and AI Specialties:   Sustainable Finance:  Evangelism, Consulting, Advisory

Amsterdam

I enabel curiosity, care and courage with the surprising power of Liberating Structures. Big fan of mystery, metaphor and magic[which I’d define as an intentional(agency) change(possibility) in perspective(orientation)]. Cofounder of Regens Unite! And source of Wise Crowds LSDAO. I frequent web3, open source and regenerative movements. Words I like are complexity, communication, chaordination, collaboration, agile, Amsterdam, cosmolocalism, commons, community (currency), value(s), Slow Thinking, practice, hypothesis, test, probe, explore, games, play, experience, story, paradox

Toulon

I am a Researcher and a Lecturer, PHD in Innovation Sociology. I am currently leading a research unit dedicated to technology design in the Anthropocene. One of our research field is the design of what we call "wright tech". Wright tech are neither High or Low tech. They are Technologies wich production and use are compatible with the preservation of a Safe and Just operating space for mankind.

Aarhus, Denmark

Social anthropologist, managing partner in a Strategic Design Studio and happy father of three. Searching for my way of contributing to the needed transformations in the world. Meaningful work derives from the search for solutions, processes and collaborations to let us all hand over a better world to our children than what we're looking at right now in 2023.      

Worcester, UK

I've always worked in industry, starting in a lab and working up through process development and project management to operations management. Throughout that journey of having a focus on objects and processes to a focus progressively involving more and more people and their futures, I've come to understand the power of pictures and ideas that are supported by good data and logical reasoning. Doughnut Economics brings many, if not all of my ideas into a wider space. I have a broad range of interests crossing from the arts to science and maybe a touch of philosophy too. I'm also very practical and prefer to be making something. Sitting still is not a natural state for me.

Willemstad

My passion lies in social and environmental development with a specific focus on the interlinkage between communities, civil society and sustainability. My goal is to contribute to the strategic development and implementation of changing initiatives that make a positive contribution to the lives of many. Furthermore, I am driven by helping others, particularly in situations of conflict within relationships, family and work-related challenges.

Scotland

#small business        #opera  

UK

Knaresborough

Lima, Peru

Biologist with a Master degree  in Protected Areas and Diplomas on Governance and Public Innovation, Leadership for Transformation and Natural Resource Management. Transdisciplinary professional with more than 14 years of work experience.  Respected experience in multilateral environmental agreements and cooperation for land area-based conservation measures, with a sustainable use and climate-smart view (mainly focused in ecosystem-based and community-based adaptation measures). Sound performance in project design and implementation (with knowledge in open standards for conservation), multi-country/multi-sector program management, capacity development, high level advisory, large event leadership, negotiation and stakeholder engagement. On-going career in biodiversity conservation, with recognized experience in conservation finance, policy strategy advice, protected areas and landscape conservation  at the national and regional levels. Volunteer in networks for women in conservation such as Women in Nature Network and the Latin America and Caribbean of Women in Conservation. With a broad taste for forming and maintaining working spaces for the creation of collective solutions to problems in complex systems.