Meet the DEAL Community

Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France

I am a person that loves movement and contributing to improve situations wherever I am. Since 2013 I worked on research, consulting and on the ground projects on waste, sustainability and circularity. I'm intrigued and ready to explore the doughnut's mindset to move towards more holistic and inclusive societies.

Crickhowell, Wales

I lead a regional project to rebuild the local food economy - Brecon Beacons National Park and Monmouthshire. Also I am helping to build the Wellbeing Economy Alliance in Wales.

Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

I was taught that your legacy is measured by the size of the footprint that you leave behind after you leave this world. I have maintained a commitment to the following statement throughout my personal and business life... "A hundred years from now it will not matter what my bank account was, the sort of house I lived in, or the kind of car I drove...but the world may be different because I was important in the life of a child." In my family and my community I have committed my life to the Platinum Rule... "Do unto others as they would have you do unto them" meaning I have had to listen carefully and act mindfully based on what I hear and see are the needs of others. Help others find whatever they need or want and what you need or want will come.

Marseille 1er Arrondissement, Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

South Wales Valleys, Wales, UK

Multi sectoral Business Consultant and Innovator, developing Hourcoin with the Timecentres team. Being an entrepreneur myself and having studied entrepreneurship, I have designed and trialled new ideas in the charitable sector including the roll out and growth of the first community-to-community timebank globally which engaged thousands of people to become active in their communities and won many awards. I have delivered business support via government funded and charity funded programs that support businesses that are growing fast, that want to take action on climate change, that are striving to improve their business and reach specific goals or diversify. I am an experienced regeneration, social venture and community development specialist. Currently I am rolling out a community currency called Hourcoin based on my work in 2004 to create mutual aid networks that improves community, wellbeing and tackles the social injustices in our economy.

Coimbra, Centro, Portugal

Project Manager of Enterprise Europe Network in the Central Region of Portugal

London, England, United Kingdom

Barcelona, Catalunya, Spain

Consulting professional passionate about promoting and maximizing the social and environmental impact of organizations by sharing best practices, engaging stakeholders, introducing methodologies to measure and manage impact and fostering cross-sector collaboration to drive lasting and positive systemic change.

Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada

I connect people, ideas and sectors to advance a just and sustainable world.

Codicote, England, United Kingdom

An engineer, and currently Royal Society Entrepreneur in Residence at King's College London, and Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor of Inclusive Engineering at Aston University. I am Founder & Director of Towards Vision, a Company which works towards a vision of diversity and inclusion in engineering, and founder of the Magnificent Women social enterprise which celebrates the history of women in engineering, and uses our inspiring heritage to encourage the next generation of engineers. I am Past President and former Chief Executive of the Women's Engineering Society. UK representative of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations.

Aalst, Vlaanderen, België

My finest hour is bringing people to places, in their hearts, where, in their minds, they always wanted to be. My greatest inspiration is Pipi Longstocking: “I have never tried that before, so I think I should definitely be able to do that.” Everybody is allowed to experiment. And everybody is allowed to fail. Engage with discomfort and grow. My burning wish is that human modesty takes over from human engineering. That is no lack of ambition. On the contrary, it increases our chances of survival. I believe that we are living through an extraordinary interval in the history of humanity. Growing inequality and the overstepping of planetary boundaries are confronting us with a unique set of challenges. In the next few decades, we have to embrace new mindsets, skills, practices and solutions to push humanity on a more benign path of development. At shiftN, we want to contribute energetically to that more equitable and sustainable future.

Paris, Île-de-France, France

Just graduated from BSc Philosophy, Politics and Economics at VU Amsterdam

Director Área Economía Fundación Chile 21 y miembro Foro por un Desarrollo Justo y Sostenible

Putney, England, Regno Unito

Originally from Italy, I have been living in London for about nine years now. I have eclectic working experiences, coming from a line of environmental engineering (wastewater treatment) and inventorship, I studied art and humanities and I am now an artist and a freelance photographer. To bring bread to the table I work in food distribution and in customer oriented environments since I moved to UK, although last year I founded with like-minded people Alberea, a start up and b-corp that aims to plant 15 million trees by 2030, in order to fight desertification in the Mediterranean area while helping other business to move to more sustainable practices and creating a cultural momentum around environmental emergency awareness.

Los Angeles, California, United States of America

I’m a third-gen Angeleno who was taught surfing from my father at a young age. Perhaps that’s why I have such reverence for the sea. Also love jazz & dogs (especially my 10-year-old boxer pit, Pacino).

Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia

I am a academician, homeopathic practitioner advocating sustainability. Passionate about making a change in the community with the Sustainable Development Goals. Thinks globally and acts locally.

Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

I am a clinical epidemiologist at a teaching hospital in the south end of Kuala Lumpur. Interests in public policy, social inclusion, ethics and sustainable development.

Barcelona, Catalunya, España

Always technology and science-driven, I would describe myself as a very restlessness person eager to learn new things, to be able to reach new goals and very comfortable in changing environments and situations. At professional level I would highlight my creativity and analytic capacity to understand process, context and circumstances, to fragment them into more understandable blocks and to rephrase them as needed to become their optimal version. I guess as an engineer I always have this background idea of wanting to find solutions and to fix problems. At personal level I would describe myself as a very communicative person with very high capacity to establish bonds with peers and with clients based on a mixture of transparency, consensus and empathy together by leading through the example. At a team level I try to become the enabler person that gets things done and blockers removed to facilitate the work of the team. My aims and passions are much related with nature and travelling.

Shaftesbury, England, United Kingdom

I am Shaftesbury's Town Clerk and also studying a Community Governance degree to help my community to thrive.

Lisboa, Área Metropolitana de Lisboa, Portugal

Cátia Arnaut is a result driven, self-motivated and resourceful CxO Manager, with over 18 year experience in the Telecommunication and IT Industry across different markets – Europe, Middle East and Africa. Currently undertaking a PhD on alternative economic development models

Holland, Michigan, United States of America

Virginia is a solo-mama of a 4 year old daughter, a trauma survivor, a singer and Chief Listening Officer of Amplify The Heart. Virginia sees "business" as potential pathway to sustainability, lessening the suffering of the planet through the work that we make and the energy we contribute to the future we are all co-creating. Virginia is a current student of the science of compassion at Stanford University CCARE's Applied Compassion Training Program. Her studies of Polyvagal Theory and the practice of Circling Method have given her a keen understanding of the dynamics of mind/body in relationship, which she brings with her, always, as she holds space as a group facilitator and internal experience guide. She is learning how to grow vegetables.

Canterbury, England, United Kingdom

Hi, I'm Diane. I'm a permaculturist and a co-founder (with my partner Mark) of The GREEN Team Canterbury (on Facebook). With our goods recycling initiative, we are striving to prevent the waste of usable, recyclable and upcyclable items and help create a circular economy in our university city of Canterbury in Kent, UK. We also are creating permaculture gardens on the council land around the council flat we live in and do maintenance and clear ups of fly tipping/litter around the estate of Hales Place we live in, and strive to build community here. I have joined as I had heard of donut economics and just watched a great video discussion with Caroline Lucas hosting. It seems like an important part of the solution.

Newham, Victoria, Australia

I am a regenerative sport pracitioner. I have founded a small consultancy to support sport to become regenerative and to form climate active partnerships. I use a nature based lens and I am using the donut to work collaboratively with sports organisations and their stakeholders to apply different thinking to their work.  

台北市, 臺北市, 台灣

Founder of Musu Zero Waste.