Meet the DEAL Community

Necochea, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Literature Lic.

City of London, England, United Kingdom

Passionate about working towards systems change through regenerative and distributive design. Currently, a sustainability consultant with experience in customer experience, service design, change management and behaviour change.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

My background is in Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence. I have spent the majority of my career in the Australian and US startup community in product development, founder and executive roles, and in industry research. In the past decade or more I have been increasingly involved in developing frameworks and solutions for the ethical use of data in AI, with a focus on data privacy. I am very interested in the ways in which the ideas of legitimacy and impact (societal, environmental, personal, both positive and negative) are discussed in the context of ethical technology. I am currently a Director at Hocone limited where Icollaborate with Australian researchers and practitioners on the application of ethical and privacy-preserving frameworks in data, anaytics and AI.

Karachi, Pakistan

Sikander Bizenjo is the co-author of World Economic Forum’s Youth Recovery Report and sits at the Advisory Council of the WEF Global Shapers Community. He has over a decade of experience in working with public and private sector organizations on strategizing growth and inclusive culture. Currently Manager External Engagements at Engro Corporation (Dawood Group), a large conglomerate based out of Pakistan, Sikander has previously served at the Ministry of Planning (Govt. of Pakistan) as well as international organisations on advocacy, systems change and community mobilisation. Bizenjo is the co-founder of Balochistan Youth Action Committee (BYAC ) – a youth led movement to help communities in remote and isolated villages of Pakistan. BYAC has directly supported 400,000+ people in last two years with food supplies, medical equipment, trainings, and awareness sessions. For his work in creating opportunities with limited resources in some of the most challenging terrains, he was mentioned as ‘one of the seven unsung heroes of the pandemic’ by Microsoft Founder Bill Gates. He is also the winner of UK Alumni Awards 2021 from Pakistan and recipient of Monash University Distinguished Alumni Award. #Inclusion #Diversity #YouthEmpowerment 

Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

I am a media innovator and entrepreneur. Since 2018 I am exclusively active as an innovator in the social and sustainable economy, working and advising companies such as wake up café in France and Natural Solutions in Marseille.

Brisbane, Queensland, Australia

Hi my name is Antje and I am a PhD Candidate at the University of Queensland, Australia. My PhD research focuses on connecting the social and environmental side of sustainability by trying to understand why employees do not engage in organisational sustainability initiatives. Prior to joining academia I have worked for more than 15 years in sustainable tourism and hospitality management across the world. Over time I have learnt that people, so the inner boundary of the doughnut, is the most important for successful implementation of sustainability hence my focus on people and their well-being in my research.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada

I am a career financial planner with a deep interest in social capital projects

Edmonton, Alberta, Canada

"Our greatest contribution to a sustainable future is to create the conditions in which each person can achieve self actualization and thrive." Those words seeded the birth of "Growing Together for Your Children's Tomorrows." My big questions were. "What are those conditions? How do we create them?" The [sometimes annoying] nature of a polymath is to go deep, to investigate, to look for patterns and find places where they connect. Twelve years of cross-sector research showed that the way we build cities is the greatest threat to the health of both the person and the planet. Life after birth is the ongoing differentiation of a person, a process shaped by the relationships, exposures, and experiences in their daily lives. Focusing on the needs of children seven years and younger, the foundation years, I now work with urban parents to transform sensory deprived built-for-cars neighbourhoods into sensory enriched built-for-kids adventure places.

Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

I support those who develop regenerative initiatives through the practices of Designs, the organization of knowledge, and the management of cooperative projects.

Edinburgh

Hello! I'm an Australian from a small rural town in Queensland called Warwick. I moved to Nairobi to work with UNEP in their ecosystems division a few years ago and still work remotely with them. Now I am in Edinburgh pursuing a Masters' degree in Ecological Economics. I am passionate about interdisciplinary research, and particularly discussions around value pluralism, deliberative democracy, and creativity/co-creation in city planning. My dream one day is to see ecological economics becoming the mainstream economics, and for intrinsic value of nature to be respected and integrated into policy.

Inverness, Scotland, United Kingdom

Circular Economy, Climate Leadership Strategist, Ph.D. - Wellbeing Economy Ambassador.  I'm a circular economy and climate strategist and a scientist working in regenerative sustainability for the last 25 years.  I’m focused in the maximisation of impact and value, through multifaceted business approaches.  In my career, I worked extensively with startups, individuals, public, private and third sector corporates to rethink and redesign their economic  approach with social and environmental innovation.  I contributed worldwide in sustainable development and land design management within the blue economy and circular  economy networks on low carbon programmes for almost twenty years, to ensure thorough business analysis and  promoting sustainable solutions for social barriers, environmental challenges and innovations.

Bayonne, Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France

Indigenous to the Northern Basque land, determined to contribute to the “glo-cal” regeneration mouvement. After working in the start-up world, then bikepack around Europe and get trained at the Schumacher College, I am back to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port, integrating my father’s real estate company, willing to make local challenges meet international concerns. If you’d like to chat, feel free to send me an email - joan.indaburu@ik.me

Oxford, England, United Kingdom

I am an ambitious, optimistic, compassionate, and active visionary aiming to improve our society and cities by applying a systematic approach and using collaboration to create opportunities for people to thrive

London

Promoting Doughnut Economics principles and initiatives through cryptocurrency philanthropy. Main area of interest is addressing systemic barriers to meaningful climate action

Jakobstad, Länsi-Suomi, Finland

Project leader shaping circular design together with the industrial sector in Finlands Vaasa region, deeply passionate about co-creation and re-shaping the economy towards regenerative and distributive principles.

Loughborough, England, United Kingdom

PhD Researcher | Sustainable Hydrogen CDT, Loughborough University

Fulton, Missouri, United States of America

Founder and Resource Coordinator for The Community Peacebuilding and Cultural Sustainability (CPCS) Initiative at www.cpcsi.org . Three+ decades of research for risk assessment and local community based solutions. Research informed and inspired by spiritual resources from many traditions. Many papers, documents, and resources are “compilation of excerpts” for catalysts, change agents, community organizers, and activists from every variety of circumstances. Key Documents include: “Do We Have Moral Compasses We Can Rely On?”; “What are Cultural and Spiritual Tipping Points?”; “Becoming a Greater Force Than the Challenges We are Facing”; “Turn the Emergency Alert System to ON” (all accessible on cpcsi.org homepage).

Bristol, England, United Kingdom

I am a Bristol-based artist working across many mediums. I make artworks that sit somewhere on the edge of live art and community infrastructure; playful experiments about what real life might look like if we were less concerned with what real life ‘should’ look like. These have included: a performance score for 3-5 year olds to take power over institutional art space; a piece of gig theatre about concrete architecture featuring a drag king punk band; a book of 151 ideas for overthrowing the government; a quilt of data from the 2019 general election; a DIY business selling shares in a communal bicycle; a podcast about private renting. I am currently working on Transactionland, a shop/artwork/community-space for exploring inclusive economies.

Montreal, Québec, Canada

I'm a connector, facilitator, catalyst!  I help my clients make sense of messy complex challenges; to look at alternatives and opportunities for reinvention and innovation. Though I have just begun my exploration of Doughnut Economics, I want to bring this thinking into my practice and finds ways to help my clients turn these ideas into action. I look forward to learning and sharing more with you here! I'm respectfully based on Tiohtià:ke the traditional and unceded homelands of the Kanien’keha:ka (Mohawk). 

Castlemaine, Victoria, Australia

Dr Michael Chew is a participatory action-researcher, photographer and environmentalist whose work explores creativity in social change. He draws from interdisciplinary perspectives with degrees in Participatory Design, Mathematical Physics, Social Theory, Art Photography and Social Ecology. He co-founded grassroots NGOs Friends of Kolkata, and Friends of Bangladesh to run international volunteer programmes and North-South solidarity work, and has run participatory storytelling projects across Asia. After completing a design-based action-research PhD in 2020 exploring how participatory photography can inspire youth environmental behaviour change across cities in Bangladesh, China and Australia, he is currently undertaking a Rotary Peace Fellowship at Chulalongkorn University.

Sydney, New South Wales, Australia

I am a university researcher investigating the employment impacts of climate change and climate action, and how we can use the latter to make work more decent and fair. I have a special interest in the global textile and garment sector.

Ormstown, Québec, Canada

I have been an environmentalist for 30 years now. For many years it always felt like I was fighting against. I am feeling more hopeful than ever because more and more we are working to build new structures and the Doughnut Economics encompasses all the big issues. I am sitting on an environmental committee on my town and am feeling inspired by our new council.

Lochaber, Scotland

Artist, activist, architect

Cricket St Thomas, England, United Kingdom

Sustainability Manager meaning it, working in furniture manufacture but thinking about bigger things.