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Pune, Maharashtra, India

I am working as an sustainability researcher on urban sustainability and climate change for a project in Pune titled making Pune a Sustainably Smart city by 2030. Here we are exploring the various tools to make the city not only smart through the use of technological innovations but also looking at the social and environmental aspects of the city along with climate change impacts.

Dún Laoghaire, Leinster, Ireland

Gerard Corcoran leads Innovation and Research Partnerships, Medtech and Sportstech for Huawei Ireland Research Centre and was previously Senior Solutions Manager and Account Director for Huawei Enterprise Business Unit in Western Europe with responsibility for Smart and Safe Cities and Communities. He is on the Smart Cities Task Force for Smart City Dublin, Smart Docklands, Smart Sandyford, Smart Belfast, TMForum and Dun Laoghaire and is a Board Member of Sandyford Business District. He has over 40 years’ experience in the ICT industry with special focus on New and Emerging Technologies applied to the development of Smart and Sustainable Cities, Healthcare, Mobility and Energy including HMS, AI, 5G, IoT, AR/VR/MR, Blockchain and Genomics. He is founder of ISOGG Ireland, the International Society of Genetic Genealogy, with 7K members in the Irish Diaspora of a total of 20K ISOGG members. He has presented at Genetic Genealogy events in Dublin, Belfast, Galway, London, Birmingham.

Bonn, Germany

Our present moneysystem is a contageous dangerous sick nervous system of cities and our post urban society. It is the money system that prevents us to remain within the tolerancies of our ecosystems. The current monetary system has two characteristics that are not normally seen. Firstly, it is a mathematical echo chamber that is completely disconnected from the real world, and secondly, the use of money is a systemic shifting of responsibility. Today's monetary system is therefore a major cause of the destruction of the Earth's habitability by us as a human race. Measures to protect this habitability currently have to be financed from taxes that come from an economy based on this monetary system. This is absurd. The financial sector has the opportunity to do something about it. However, it takes little or no notice of this responsibility. Of course, the habitability of the earth is to be given a higher ethical value than gold and money. But then it is also a moral duty to curb their destructive role. A new monetary order based on real values is possible. How, is described in my book "Nature as the Standard of Value. Three measures for creating a monetary system that protects our livelihoods" (Published Dec. 2024 in German, I am still looking for an English publisher.) https://value-for-money.org/en/ As a sinologist, I started my career in the financial world and later became a financial correspondent for the Dutch press in Bonn. After eleven years in the financial world, I joined a large German DAX-listed company to help it go public internationally. There I rose to the management level with responsibility for quality management. Since 2006, I have been researching how cities can achieve sustainability in real-world laboratories from Beijing to Hamburg. In 2014, oekom Verlag published the book "Wurzeln für die lebende Stadt" ('Roots for the Living City’). This book is available as an open science document. From 2014 onwards I have setup, directed and/or supervised four living labs in and between urban quarters. One in Berlin and three in the city of Hamburg. The results where published in 2023 in the German scientific reader „(Re-) Konstruktion von lokaler Urbanität“ (W.-D. Bukow et al. (Hrsg.)) in the article with the translated title ‘Small towns and quarters as the smallest units of an urban society, their fundamental role in ensuring sustainability and resilience with personal responsibility and self-efficacy’ https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-3-658-39635-0 One of the results of this research is the observation, that our money system is a dangerous sick nervous system of cities. For a bit more information please look at: https://value-for-money.org/en/ For more information about me, see: https://www.linkedin.com/in/harristiddens.

Detroit, Michigan, United States of America

Alex Johnston is a civic designer and social entrepreneur. In 2014, Alex founded Cities Reimagined, a civic design firm that employs principles of design to solve complex challenges in urban cities. She is a graduate of the London School of Economics with a Master’s Degree in Cities. Alex started her career as a social worker, working with at-risk mothers and their babies. On one memorable occasion at the local Department of Social Services, Alex watched her client wrestle a food stamps application so long that it touched the floor. From that moment on, Alex has been obsessed with solving civic problems by placing users at the center of the design process. Alex is currently based in Detroit, Michigan. She serves as the CEO of Cities Reimagined and is a Senior Fellow for the Institute of Social Innovation at Babson College in Boston.

Columbus, Ohio, USA

Paul Carlson founded the non-profit reEarth in 2020 that works on smart and sacred water initiatives in NW Ohio. He is a board member for the non-profit Simply Living and Resurrecting Lives Foundation that helps veterans who suffer from Traumatic Brain Injuries. He was a member of the US Transition Collaborative Design Council from March 2020 until March 2022 and serves on the Green Spot Advisory Board for the City of Columbus.  Paul worked for seventeen years as the city’s first IT Project Manager. He was responsible for facilitating the city being recognized as the 2015 Intelligent Community Forum, Most Intelligent Community in the World. He worked closely with The Ohio State University Center for Automotive Research, Autonomous Vehicle Pilot project, that was sponsored by the NIST Global City Team Challenge and he was part of the core team that responded to the first phase of Columbus ultimately winning the $40M USDOT Smart City Challenge. Paul was also a member of Mayor Coleman’s Green team and helped Columbus become certified as a four STAR sustainable community.  Paul attended the US Naval Academy for two years (Class of 1973) and received a BA in Political Science in 1976, and an MA in History in 1978, from Youngstown State University.

Sunway University, Subang Jaya

Programme Officer at the Sunway Centre for Planetary Health. I am the focal point for the Planetary Health Alliance in South and Southeast Asia, and also part of the Ipoh Doughnut City team, working to transform Ipoh, a city in Malaysia, into the first Doughnut City in Asia.

Miro board with ideas and inspirations for local governments on bringing the Doughnut to city or sectoral strategies

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Mexico City, Mexico

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22 Rue Joubert, 75009 Paris, France

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Findhorn Ecovillage, Scotland, United Kingdom

Marilyn is the AQtivator of Integral City Meshworks and the author of the Integral City Book Series. With the Master Code of Care, she is reinventing the city as an evolutionary, complex adaptive “human hive”. Using Integral frameworks and biomimicry consciousness she is schooling a planet of Integral Cities as Gaia’s Reflective Organs.

Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands

I am a sustainability engineering and post-growth economics senior expert with over 15 years of experience driving systemic change across the globe. Recently returned to my native Greece, I run my own consulting studio while serving as the Sectors Lead for the Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) . My work spans large-scale sustainability projects in Europe, the Americas, Africa, and Asia, collaborating with the European Commission, the United Nations, Ministries of Environment, and over 100 cities globally. I am particularly proud for my contributions to the Amsterdam City Doughnut project and the city's circular economy strategy, initiatives that have gathered media attention from outlets like the BBC, Time Magazine, and The Guardian. I love giving key note speeches, facilitating workshops, and designing participatory decision making processes. I often teach at educational institutions around the world, and I am currently partnering with Schumacher College to develop a new school for the next generation of leaders.

Madrid, Comunidad de Madrid, España

City Scientist, Architect and Data Scientist, specialist in analysis of socio-economic and environmental impact of policies, projects and services in cities and territory in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals. In Smart&City, we measure the impact that the services and the product of your company / organization have on the SDGs.

Cork city

I am an octogenarian, active as a volunteer with earth-crisis awareness-raising groups in Cork, especially SHEP Earth Aware and Elders for Earth. We partner with a lot of different groups, for talks, workshops, conferences, etc. Since autumn 2020 we have had a monthly series of talks on Greening Our City, in collaboration with ERI (UCC), Cork Chamber, Cork Green Spaces, Cork Healthy Cities, and Cork Environmental Forum. We plan to devote one of these talks (April or May 2021) to Doughnut at city level.