Meet the DEAL Community

York

Bristol

Currently a graduate economics student at the University of Bristol frustrated with the curriculum and concerned for our future!

Canada

MBA Student of Community Economic Development at Cape Breton University. A engineer turned into social entrepreneur. Focused on community development and growth.

Mumbai

I fund www.apnipathshala.org - a chain of community based learning pods in India  

The Netherlands

Teacher at a secondary school 

India New Delhi

I am presently a teacher of Economics in the International Baccalaureate Program.  In my past avatar I have been a Macro Economics Strategist for an Investment Bank for good 15 years of my life and then dabbled with Analytics and Surveillance and Compliance Analytics to be specific. Have a doctorate in International Trade. Enjoy Reading, writing, listening to music and a spending time with my dog and my son - not necessarily in that order !!

Denmark

I am a seasoned Business Developer with extensive experience from the Lifestyle & Design and Robotics industries.  My commitment to sustainability has led me on a self-funded I transition to a Purpose-Driven Sustainability Advocate where I am exploring the convergence of technology, human behavior, and overproduction in the fashion industry.  I discovered Doughnut Economics through a LinkedIn post, and it immediately resonated with me. Its simplicity and effectiveness make it an easily digestible Framework for developing action plans to transition companies towards a regenerative and distributed design approach. I joined DEAL community as I am keen to learn more about the concept and what is already happening in Denmark and how I can help locally aswell as globally.   

Frenchay

I am a parish councillor and interested in new ideas

Wellington, Aotearoa New Zealand

I've worked for many years as a doctor and see the big structures and systems which are harmful for people's health, and are disrespecting whole sections of our global population, our non-human relations and our natural home. My desire to work to change this was accelerated by becoming a mother - I desperately want the next generations to have a flourishing fair society and a healthy planet. I'm currently studying Masters in Public Health with an interest in Planetary Health, Commercial Determinants of Health and Health in All Policies - doughnut economics brings me the most exciting ideas about how we can envision a future with wellbeing for everyone. I am hoping to connect with other researchers to get ideas for how we can work to transform economic thinking in local and national government.

London

Studied economics at university and the taught the "only available" thesis: free market. Specialised and worked in marketing to then moving into consulting (customer engagement), contributing to further drive consumption. I read Doughnut Economics 5 years ago and it was the first book that really challenged my views about traditional economics. In the meanwhile, I have been observing a big friction between how we want to live (i.e. more sustainably) and how we really live (i.e. consuming more than prior generations). Also, I'm tier of greenwashing. The issue is complex. The solution will require a cultural change (accepting to change our way of living) and a review of the economic system. It cannot be left to the single individuals or the single companies, co-ordinated actions are needed.  I don't pretend to find the solution to this conundrum, but I'd like to understand more and contribute as much as possible.

Brooklyn, New York

UK

I'm a 'growth marketer' and as such my role takes me into the world of #pricing, supply-demand and #sustainable growth. I'd first heard about doughnut economics in 2018 through effective altruism. But since listening to Kate Raworth make a call to arms (or at least say is there an alternative option?) on the 'Leading' podcast, I am inspired to partake and see if I can contribute in any way. Keen to provide time, energy and capital to spread the good word!

London, England

I am interested in changing public policy to benefit the masses and managing tourism to benefit communities. BSc Economics, University of Kansas; MSc Tourism Managment, Technological University Dublin; MSc Data Science and Econometrics, Goldsmiths University of London.

Brighton, UK

A Chartered Accountant (FCCA) with over 20 years’ experience delivering results in senior accounting, strategic and project management roles within the corporate, non-profit and the international development sectors. I am passionate about applying his skills to delivering positive social change. After five years overseeing the delivery of an ambitious waste reduction strategy for the Rockhampton region, in 2023 I am returning to the international development sector, to apply my skills in the fight for social and economic justice in the global south.

Rutland, England

I am a devotee of both #systemsthinking (to tame complexity) and #creativity (to discover solutions),  so the DEAL objectives are very exciting.   I have a lot of experience too, as well as being the author of 15 books, including (if I may!) *  Seeing the Forest for the Trees - A manager's guide to applying systems thinking (Nicholas Brealey, 2002) *  Strategic Thinking Illustrated  - Strategy made visual using systems thinking (Routledge, 2022) * Smart Things to Know about Innovation and Creativity (Capstone, 2001) * How to be Creative - A practical guide for the mathematical sciences, co-authored with Professor Nicholas J Higham FRS FREng (SIAM, 2022) * Creativity for Scientists and Engineers (Institute of Physics Publishing, 2022)

Hello Kete and all. I am a 76 year old retired GP living in Martinborough, NZ (a small wine town about 80 kms north east of Wellington). I have a wife and we have four daughters and a new grandson who live in the UK presently. The last forty years of my life have been in a sense seriously blighted by the stupidity of the neoliberal economic ascendancy and the abandonment of the value of the commons, Thatcherism, Reaganism. It never made any sense to me - it is a cruel Darwinian way to run society and that economics has become the ideology of nearly everything running our society is madness. Economics is like studying our existence through a telescope, you can only see one small part at at time, magnifying the detail to an importance is never deserves, whereas everything truly important in our human existence lies outside the telescope's field of view and is never examined or accounted for.  Economics is not a science, at the best it is a social study, and subject to all the randomness and unpredictability of human behaviour, as individuals, as groups. I go on to suggest with appropriate cynicism that economics is most like criminology, the only difference being that criminology is the study of greed and corruption in those tried and found guilty, whereas economics is the study of greed and corruption in those yet to be arrested.  Neoliberal capitalism died in 2008 only to be resuscitated in Frankenstein fashion by the infusions of trillions of dollars of public money, without of course any permission from the citizenry, to use their assets this way,  only to die again just 12 years later in the face of Covid. What use an economic system of such systemic weakness and moral and physical decay? I have written diatribes, rants, letters to papers , spoken at political meetings etc against this capitalist supremacy takeing our societies and our planet to ruin.  In the early 2000s I suggested the world needs a "New Ecological Enlightenment". To summarise, I wrote  how likely is it that the ideologies of even the most brilliant minds of the original Enlightenment would be still appropriate 250 years later, when these ideas developed in a world with a population ten times smaller, and vast land masses still to be conquered and tamed, both people and resources.? It makes no sense to me to think these ideas are any longer relevant in our present situation, which is slipping into serious peril. .  And as for growth?? PM Liz Truss: "We need growth, growth, growth", echoing precisely Starmer's "Growth, growth, growth". I think these two people, and anyone else who thinks the same thing is literally "insane, insane, insane".  Prof. Albert Bartlett is a hero of mine. 

UK

Dynamic Leader, with experience in both the public, charity and private sector in the UK and Europe. Delivers highly successful solutions with an in-depth understanding of complexity and change. A proven track record of project and financial leadership in a range of sectors, developing innovative solutions whilst managing competing priorities. Background in HR and Learning and Development provides additional expertise and supports a committed approach to any role.  Successfully utilised  Doughnut Economics to model the Glastonbury Town Deal as part of the UK Government Levelling Up Agenda.

Graduated from NSU in Fort Lauderdale with a degree in Environmental Science. Spent 1 year with Americorps NCCC as a volunteer team leader; recently moved back to my family farm in Central Illinois to support my grandfather. Looking for ways to ameliorate the upcoming polycrisis of biosphere disruption, global warming, and international unrest.

Turkey

Decentralized Individual 

Greenwich london

I am a retired physician and have been working in various organisations for the past 50 years trying to ensure that social environmental and fiscal justice prevail, as only when these do will we be able to create a healthy society. I recently was a founder member of the UK health alliance on climate change , and have been instrumental in working to ensure that we collectively work on all the components of our ecological crisis not just carbon emissions,

Oliveira do Hospital, Portugal

I am a permaculture practitioner with experience in straw bale building and gardening. I am very interested in doughnut economics as a way to transform our current economic model.  Having grown up in the UK I decided to live in central Portugal where I am renovating an old house and creating a food forest. 

Dunedin, New Zealand

I'm a public servant working in the environment field.  I did an undergraduate degree in economics in the early 90s, but never took the step of faith required to become "an economist".  I'm now particularly interested in the policy settings required to save the planet, including what changes are needed in macroeconomic settings, governance performance measures, and how we could change the relationship between government and international finance.