Meet the DEAL Community

Spencer , West Virginia, United States of America

I'm a member of the compost religion which means I love natures ability to cycle resources. Our present situation needs personal change - like simple living, shared land trusts, yoga and meditation plus policy change - like running for office, helping candidates, direct nonviolent action.

Berlin, Deutschland

Will follow.

Auckland, New Zealand

I am a change maker working for Auckland Council, interested in ways to make Auckland a great place for all it's people and the planet

Ventura, California, United States of America

Board of Directors for Climate First: Replacing Oil and Gas; Global Environment, Politics and Society, MSc, University of Edinburgh, 2019; Gender Studies, BA, UCLA, 2015. All thoughts are my own and not representative of these institutions.

France

I'm a campaigner and strategist who believes the time is ripe for radical shifts in our economies and am excited to see the doughnut being put into practice all around the world. I have lead global campaigns for nearly 15 years and until recently lead Oxfam's global campaign on food and climate justice, GROW where Kate Raworth launched the first Doughnut discussion paper in 2012. I'm now part of a new collective of great thinkers and practitioners from different sectors who like to come together to codesign solutions to complex problems - Better By Codesign.

Waikanae, Wellington, New Zealand

After a career as a Project Manager, Management Consultant, Chartered Accountant and Computer Scientist, I retired in 2020, around the start of the COVID pandemic. For the past year, I have taken the time to convert from a more than full time work life to spending time with my family and researching topics of interest. Originally I am from The Netherlands, where I lived in The Hague and Amsterdam, but worked around the country with regular business travels to the UK and USA. Since 1979, my family and I live in New Zealand, where I have developed a deep appreciation for the environment and nature. I am very passionate to convert ideas into implementable actions, which I can now do without any commercial motives.

Houston, Texas, United States of America

I'm interested in economics and don't know much about it

Los Angeles, California, United States of America

64 years young, Hispanic, currently retired but worked in social work areas, specifically in the fields of disabilities and rehabilitation, for forty years.

Auckland, New Zealand

During my 10 years working in the fitness industry both in New Zealand and London, UK, I was constantly trying to help people with the same physical problems (sore backs and necks, fatigue, and stress). I would do all I could to help them physically but the issue was bigger. Their lifestyles were out of balance. And the more I thought about the more I came to the conclusion that there is something fundamentally wrong with our economic system. My travels through South East Asia, the Americas, and Europe showed to me that this problem was a global problem. The inequalities I experienced and the environmental destruction I saw first-hand motivated me to do more to help. On my return to Aotearoa New Zealand, I took the plunge and changed careers. I started by working for a start-up compostable packaging business which was my doorway into sustainability, and circular economy thinking. I am now the founder of a sustainability consultancy.

Pamplona, Navarra - Nafarroa, España

To be described

Switzerland

Student at the University of St. Gallen, Member of oikos St. Gallen (interested in Curriculum Change)

Halden, Østfold, Norway

Senior researcher on sustainable energy technology.

City of London, England, United Kingdom

I study development studies & economics (undergrad level, graduating in 2022). I am a member of my local Rethinking Economics group at university.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, Nederland

I am an entrepreneur turned management consultant focused on valorizing disruptive solutions to the market which improve environmental, economic and social sustainability at both the individual, local and global scale ( My Nine Lenses ).

London

I’m the Chief Finance Officer and also the sustainability lead for a group of NHS hospitals in London

Wales, England, United Kingdom

Dublin, Leinster, Ireland

Financial services professional interested in local community and implementing small local change

Coffs Harbour, New South Wales, Australia

I work in local government looking after economic development and destination marketing.

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

Runnymede, England, United Kingdom

Have been campaigning for change in events specifically marathons to be more respectful of our resources, and changing the way participants think about resource conservation. Now am ready to move forward to help facilitate change within our local societies to thrive in a natural world.

Velen, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany

I worked in Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency of Turkey for about 20 years. I have Master degree in University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign on MSPE (Master of Science Policy Economics). My concentration is on Development Economics. I am a PhD Candidate at Istanbul University. I completed advanced classes and proficiency exam, focused on Microfinance subject. I had to leave Turkey in 2019. I am now in Germany and try to learn German and want to a restart.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

Anglo-Italian language and literature English teacher, wannabe gardener and conservationist.

New Taipei, 新北市, Taiwan

I'm working on Regulation Avoidable Coin Offering Protocol. The goal is to make non profit organizations fundraise from investment by anonymous people without restrictions. That is a very powerful way to make people get interested in social activities.

Cambridge, England, United Kingdom

I am trained as a Physicist, and I have been using that to do product and strategy innovation for about 35 years with major global corporations: the last 20 years with a consultancy I co-founded (Innovia Technology). I'm still doing that, and I like learning new stuff, so I'm now up for a bit of social and economic innovation! Along the way I edited a book on Behavioural Science, but most of my learning on people and communities comes from my wife, who is a brilliant community-builder in Cambridge.