Meet the DEAL Community

Colorado Springs CO

Im a Navy Veteran turned farmer working to ease the pains of food insecurity in my community. 

Seoul, Korea

Dr. Kim Chang-gil received his Ph.D. in Agricultural Economics with a specialization in Environmental Economics from the Oklahoma State University. Dr. Kim was a researcher at the Korea Rural Economic Institute (KREI) for 28 years, where he conducted research related to sustainable and environmentally friendly agriculture, climate change, rural policy, and green growth. In 2016, he was elected as the President of KREI, a role in which he served until his retirement in 2019.  Dr. Kim has previously served as an executive member of the Prime Minister's Office's Government Evaluation Committee, the Presidential Committee on Sustainable Development, the Committee of Agricultural Policy Reforms, and the Committee of Mid-term Fiscal Policy of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance. He has also been active in his field beyond research and policy, serving as a as Co-representative of the ICT Convergence Korea Forum and the President of the Korea Agricultural Economics Association.     Dr. Kim has participated internationally as a representative of the Republic of Korea to the OECD Policy Committee on Agricultural and Environment from 2001 to 2013, later serving as Vice-chair of the committee from 2007 to 2013, and as Chair from 2014 to 2017. He served as the Korean representative of the Meetings of Agricultural Chief Scientists (MACS) of G20 and as a member of the Steering Committee of the Global Club, a council of presidents from global agricultural economic research institutes.      After retiring KREI as President of KREI, he was appointed as an invited professor to Seoul National University's Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Development with the mandate of establishing a Global High-tech Agricultural Network to foster agricultural human resources in developing countries. He recently served as Senior Advisor of Asia Development Bank and is currently a Vice-president of the Global Innovative Education Lab of the Education Commission Asia.

India

Heading the large organisation. Dealing the uncertainty of the world.  

New York

Working to bring public investments to community-led, climate resilient, housing and economic development projects in the US and Uganda. Former lecturer on public policy, human centered design, and environmental entrepreneurship at the City College of New York and New School University - Parsons School of Design Strategies. 

Wausau, WI

I'm passionate about sustainable, holistic community development that creates wellbeing and prosperity for our people and our natural environment. 

Utrecht, the Netherlands

I’ve clocked up about 15 years of work experience in policy and practice of international political economy and development with a focus on inclusive markets and food systems in low- and middle-income countries. I'd like to learn more about how doughnut economics is being applied in practice in different places, so open to meeting others in the community and sharing ideas.

West Palm Beach, FL

I am an 80 years young founder and facilitator of Circle of Life-Mastery, a not-for-profit 501 (c)(3) dedicated to expansion of consciousness. I was ordained as an Interfaith Minister and co-founded A World Alliance of Interfaith Ministers in 2005. I’m a current member of the Association for Conflict Resolution NYC at John Jay College.  I also was a member of an NGO at the UN called Committee for Spiritual and Global Concerns from 2009 to 2012.

Australia

My faith is in people. I believe that if you're trying to make the world a better place, it's not about ending war/famine/poverty, it's about building people first. That doesn't mean forget about technology, but instead leverage it, focusing not on the idea that changing the world means neon-clad, space-age looking, shiny tech, but a world where life, everywhere you look, is vibrant. I believe the way to do this is to cultivate in people, Will, Hope, Self-Cultivation, and Balance. And where do you start? Teach them about nature. And if you read this, care to join me? I found the book while researching ideas of sustainability and particularly how to convey them. And then looking into the author I found this site and it seems to agree with some of my way of thinking, about sustainability and such. I'm a scientist working in these types of fields and I'm trying to get some thoughts out there in the public and industrial mind and I thought that joining here might help along that way. 

Guerneville, California

I'm officially retired which actually means I can focus on what's most important to me. This includes the #future of learning and education, #appropriate use of both "high" and "low" tech for learning and for large-scale #social infrastructures such as #wealth production and distribution systems (i.e. economics). I'm concerned that humans have spent the last 1,000 years striving to create material #abundance and leisure for themselves without the emotional context to enjoy #well-being from what they have built. In past years I have worked in "Silicon Valley" to promote the use of #computing for learning in homes and schools. I have also ventured into #intercultural communications training, #disaster response and recovery, and #non-profit management. My current projects are documented at LO*OP Center, Inc.'s website

The landscape city of Bath which is nested within the Brisol Avon bioregion

Medvode

Barbara is an experienced public affairs & strategic communications consultant with years of working experience in the areas public sector (Office of Prime Minister of the Republic of Slovenia), corporate affairs at an international corporation, general management of an outdoor advertising company as well as a professional association.    Since 2016, she runs her own consultancy boutique shop - Aurora Borealis Consultancy - as independent consultant and strategist for domestic and international clients, specialized in the areas of public affairs, advocacy, regulatory & issues management, compliance and corporate communications. She is also keen mentor and speaker.

Guildford

DEAL workshop trained facilitator, with twenty years working with global organisations (Unilever, CitiGroup, Diageo etc) and scale-up social and environmental organisations. Open to discuss collaboration opportunities with people looking for an experienced consultant, a business and strategy leader or and anything analytical and measurement based.

Copenhagen and Paris

I am a consultant in sustainable transition always always looking for ways to enable movement towards reducing climate change and adapting to it. I think the doughnut is the best way to consider every actions and its systemic. I would like to learn more about it and develop ways to use it more. 

Madison, Wisconsin United States

Wales

A experienced senior executive leader, changemaker, mostly in the charity sector.  

Nigeria

Michael Adigam is a Civil Society Activist and Civic Engagement Specialist with over six (6) years of advocacy and experience in Public Participation and Civic Engagement Policies. He is the Founder of All-In Initiative (AI), a nonprofit organization that mainstreams the inclusion of young women and girls in public participation in Nigeria, using Education, Civic Engagement, Policy Analysis, Community Development, Youth Organizing and Storytelling for Social Change (SSC) as frameworks. He is committed to creating an enabling environment for youths in the Public and Civic spaces respectively through strategic planning and implementation of policies, Negotiation and Change Management Methods. He has hands-on experience on political leadership and activism, public participation and civic engagement policies, gender mainstreaming and related policies formulation.

Southampton

I'm a member of Transition Southampton and currently helping to set up Southampton Climate Action Network. I have an ongoing interest in the role of imagination and creative responses, through conversation and working in groups, in helping us all focus on the future we truly want. 

Vienna

I have always had an adversity to money, and talk about money. And I always thought the talk in newspapers etc about the economy was at the least weird, at the worst mean spirited.  I realise that our world is completely evolving around, and built for, money and its workings, and that what we get taught about economy is a scheme we are meant to stay put in. The fact that there seems to be a movement now that does not get squashed or peters out (at least not immediately) that seeks to change exactly these things about money and the economy, makes e enthusiastic about it. I came to this because of the writings of Kate Raworth, Piketty, Stephanie Kelton, George Monbiot, Rutger Bregman, BIEN (Basic Income Earth Network/basicincome.org) Evonomics.com Georgeo Simonetti and Margrit Kennedy. We MUST change, and this change needs to be from the ground up. Economy is ground work. 

Middlesbrough

I am a publisher based in Middlesbrough.  I founded Bok Bok Books, an independent publishing company that aims to address the need for diverse representation in children’s literature. 

I am an investor, entrepreneur and environmentalist dedicated to creating a fairer and more regenerative world economy that benefits everyone long term.  Currently, I'm part of an international team developing a Philanthropi  Eco rewards currency.

Montreal

Teach economics at Dawson College, Montreal, Quebec, Canada, as well as Kiuna Institution, an Indigenous college. Interests: Urban Economics, Jane Jacobs Economics, Innovation Economics, Indigenous Economic Development, Systems Analysis, Normative Economics, Ecological Economics. Ex-journalist. Writer. Panel moderator.  https://www.ipgbook.com/cities-matter-products-9781771863049.php https://book.innovatank.com/books/introduction-to-economics https://www.tiktok.com/@charlesalbertramsay/video/7159642471134285061?is_copy_url=1&is_from_webapp=v1&lang=fr 

Houston, Texas

architect and educator, Global TeachSDG Ambassador

Manchester

Applied mathematician and Technologist, CEO and Founder of Automedi. A first-of-its-kind decentralised donut economy for plastics. Combining 11 different innovations to deliver an eco-positive, transformative service that remanufactures products from waste in as little as 25 minutes,     I'm joining the DEAL community to raise awareness and share our work to encourage other organisations to adopt transformative, equitable climate positive new economic models and enabling infrastructure.  

Chile, Coquimbo

Biólogo Marino, dedicado a la economía circular y la sostenibilidad del sector pesquero y acuícola de Chile y Latinoamérica. Gerente de MÁSMAR www.masmar.cl y director del Comité de Economía Circular de ALPESCAS (Alianza Latinoamericana de Pesca Sustentable). Co Fundador del programa Redes de América de ALPESCAS, dedicado al reciclaje de redes y aparejos de pesca y acuicultura en Latinoamérica y el Caribe www.alpescas.com