Eva Alfredsson

Researcher, Royal Institute of Technology, KTH

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Eva Alfredsson is a policy analyst at the Swedish Agency for Growth Policy Analysis commissioned by the Swedish government to provide the government with an advanced knowledge base and recommendations to develop the state’s work to promote sustainable growth and business development. Eva’s work at Growth analysis focus on issues related to the green transition of industry. Eva has taken part in several parliamentary inquiries as an expert. Last one being the Swedish government committee (M 2010:04) developing a climate policy framework which passed as a climate law in 2018. Eva is also a part time researcher at the Royal Institute of Technology, KTH, at the department for Strategic Sustainability Studies. There she has been part of a group of researchers exploring scenarios for sustainable development beyond traditional BNP-growth. Currently she is involved in a research project reviewing the climate co-benefits literature. Eva is a senior advisor at the think tank Global Challenges where she led an expert group exploring the Green Economy ahead of Rio+20. The investigation resulted in a prestudy “The Inclusive Green Economy — Shaping society to serve sustainability — minor adjustments or a paradigm shift? (2014). Eva received her PhD at Umeå University in 2002, at the Environmental Spatial Modelling Centre. Her research focused on green consumption, energy use and carbon dioxide emission using a micro-simulation model in which the rebound effect was internalized. Eva´s research interest is on how to transit to an inclusive pluralistic green economy - at the required speed.

Kartika Anggraeni

Project manager, Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP)

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Kartika Anggraeni is a project manager at the CSCP in Wuppertal, Germany. Her work focuses on development of a sustainable MSME sector in developing countries, particularly in Africa and Asia. Through her extensive work with the EU SWITCH Programmes in Asia and Africa (2012 – now) she has collected experiences and expertise in fields of sustainability, covering sustainable supply/value chain, SDGs, green finance, and policies. Currently she is managing two EU funded Switch Africa Green projects in Kenya and Mauritius, and one SWITCH-Asia project in Kyrgyzstan. The three projects attempt to address the issue of sustainability in the value chains, from producers to intermediaries and to end consumers.

Magnus Bengtsson

Policy Lead, Hot or Cool Institute gGmbH

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Magnus has over twenty years of experience as a policy researcher and consultant advising international organisations and governments on sustainable consumption and production and circular economy. He works as policy lead at Berlin-based non-profit Hot or Cool Institute and as an independent consultant. Magnus is also a lecturer at Toyo University in Tokyo, where he is based, and a sustainability advisor to Japanese corporations as principal researcher at non-profit NELIS. Between 2007 and 2017, he worked for the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES), where he built up and led the sustainable consumption and production area. Before joining IGES, he held a post-doc position at the University of Tokyo. In addition to a PhD in Environmental Systems Analysis from Chalmers University of Technology in his native Sweden, Magnus also holds degrees in Industrial Engineering and Management, and in History.

Karla Brollier

Director, Climate Justice Initiative

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"Karla is an artist and systems thinker that focuses on Kincentric Ecosystems, Climate Change, Indigenous Rights, Human Rights, Women's Rights, Emerging Issues, New Economies and Systems. Karla Brollier is of the Yidateni Na' Tribe of the Ahtna Athabaskan peoples, she was born and raised in Alaska where she obtained her undergraduate degree as well as an MBA. Karla is the Co-founder and Senior Consultant for Saghani Consulting, which is an emergent economy, social justice and climate impact consulting firm that works with clients to assess, develop, and implement strategies, initiatives, policies and to conduct research and evaluation the world’s most urgent social and environmental challenges. She is also the Founder and Director of The Climate Justice Initiative, which focuses on Indigenous Peoples, Human Rights and Climate Change. The Climate Justice Initiative is the first and only Indigenous led and focused climate change organization in the United States that protects both environmental and human rights, and the only Indigenous women-led and focused climate change organization in the US. Karla is a catalyst in the climate and human rights movement in both the public and private sectors; she has spent much of her career consulting and working in emergent issues such as policy, economic models, environmental justice and has worked with the Climate Reality Project, the UN & directly with several US administrations and a multitude of international and nationally based climate change related programs and groups such as for the former VP Al Gore and the World Economic Forum. Karla has given plenary presentation at the international level including the WEF, presented at the United Nations, lectured at multiple universities, as well as facilitates and teaches workshops and classes around the globe. She has won multiple awards including the Female Founders Alliance 2020 Champion Awards and the 2020 Women of Color Collective in Sustainability Award. She serves on the Executive Committee of the Institute of the North, Committee of the Future Earth Knowledge Action Network on Sustainability, and the Governor appointee for the Natural Resources Conservation and Development Board. She is a current fellow as a Heller International Fellow, a Women’s Earth Alliance Fellow with TNC and Earth Island Institute. "

(Anthony) Shun Fung Chiu

Professor, De La Salle University

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Dr. (Anthony) Chiu is University Fellow and Professor at De La Salle University. He is a member of the United Nations International Resource Panel, and a member of the Future Earth KAN on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production. Professor Chiu has advised doctoral research works and published more than 200 papers, book chapters, and keynote documents in the field of Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), Resource Efficient and Cleaner Production (RECP), and Industrial Ecology / Eco-industrial Development (EID). He is also a Philippine Permanent Delegate to the United Nations 3R Summit, and member of the Philippine Delegation to Rio+20, SDG Roadmap, CSD19, etc. He served as member of the National Pollution Adjudication Board (Pollution Court) from 2004 to 2016. He is the founding vice-chair of the Industrial Engineering Certification Board. Professor Chiu is the first Philippine awardee of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers as outstanding international correspondent, and the first Philippine ASEAN Engineer in the field of Industrial Engineering from academe.

Ashley Colby

Co-Founder, Rizoma Field School

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Ashley Colby earned her PhD focusing on environmental sociology from Washington State University in 2018. Ashley’s book is on subsistence food production as a potentially revolutionary act that could help in the development of a future sustainable society. Ashley got her MA in sociology at WSU in 2013, and her BA in Cinema and Media Studies at the University of Chicago in 2007. She has travelled to over 30 countries on 5 continents. Ashley is currently interested in and passionate about the myriad creative ways in which people are forming new social worlds in resistance to the failures of late capitalism and resultant climate disasters. As a qualitative researcher she tends to focus on the informal spaces of innovation. She is currently pursuing research projects based in Uruguay, where she has recently founded Rizoma Field School for experiential learning on the area of sustainability and agroecology. Ashley is a new member of the Executive Board of the Sustainable Consumption Research and Action Initiative (SCORAI) based in North America.

Leonie Dendler

Senior Research Fellow, German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment

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Leonie Dendler is a senior research fellow at the German Federal Institute for Risk Assessment working for the crisis prevention and coordination unit within the risk communication department. Her work focusses on stakeholder management and public engagement in regulatory science. She has previously worked for the Sustainable Consumption Institute and the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of Manchester (UK) and Fudan University (China). An environmental scientist by training with a PhD from Manchester Business School (UK), her wider research interest lies in understanding institutional change processes across international consumption and production systems with a particular focus on food. She is a member of the FE KAN working groups on communication and SCP in cities.

Paul Dewick

Professor of Sustainability and Innovation, Keele Business School, Keele University

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I am Professor of Sustainability and Innovation at Keele Business School. My research explores the role of innovation in systems of sustainable consumption and production. Much of my past work has looked at eco-innovation in the food and built environment sectors. More recently I've explored the factors facilitating and hindering the circular economy, and the sustainability implications of innovations stimulated by crises. I am an Honorary Research Fellow at the Manchester Institute of Innovation Research in Alliance Manchester Business School, The University of Manchester , and elected member of the Steering Committee of Future Earth's Knowledge Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production (KANSSCP). I co-chair Future Earth's KANSSCP Working Group on the Circular Economy. I am a member of the editorial board of Springer’s ‘Circular Economy and Sustainability’ journal.

Felix Donkor

Post-doc, University of South Africa (UNISA)

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"Felix Kwabena Donkor is a research fellow at the College of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences (UNISA), South Africa. He serves on the advisory board of the joint African Union and European Union HAQAA (Harmonisation of African Higher Education Quality Assurance and Accreditation) Initiative. He is the immediate past vice-chair for CQAB (Course Quality Advisory Board) of the Erasmus Mundus Students and Alumni Association (EMA) and a member of its PQAU (Policy and Assurance Unit). Felix completed his PhD in environmental sciences from the School of Animal, Plant and Environmental Sciences (APES), of the University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). He is also an alumnus of the Joint European Masters in Environmental Sciences (JEMES) jointly run by Techniche Universitat Hamburg (Germany),University of Aalborg (Denmark), Aveiro University (Portugal) and Universite Autonomia Barcelona(Spain). He served as President of the Erasmus Mundus Students and alumni African Chapter and a core team member of the African Students and Alumni Forum (ASAF). His research interests include education for sustainable development, sustainable rural livelihoods, indigenous knowledge systems, and environmental governance. He has published widely on these areas as well as presented them. He served as deputy chair of the South African Adaptation Network. He is a business mentor for the Tony Elumelu Foundation Entrepreneurship Program, and a founding member of the Inala Food Sovereignty and Climate Justice Forum which champions food security and climate education amongst students. His hobbies include cycling, swimming, jogging, writing and music. "

Georgina Guillen-Hanson

Researcher, Gamification Group - Tampere University

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Georgina (Ginnie) is currently exploring gamification to enable consumption practice shifts towards more sustainable ones. Currently working as a PhD researcher at the Gamification Group (Tampere University, Finland), she has always been interested in translating research findings into applicable “everyday language.” Building upon her +20 year-experience in the private and not-for-profit sectors in all continents, her work covers a wide array of topics that include citizen engagement and education, human-centered design processes, communication, and the power of media. Before joining the Gamification Group, as a cohort of the Collaborating Center on Sustainable Consumption and Production in Germany (2010-2019), she directed projects for SWITCH Africa Green and developed and managed a portfolio of projects that included collaboration with multilateral organizations such as the United Nations Staff System College, the German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Union, and various private actors. Earlier, she managed the sustainability and social communication unit at Grupo Salinas in Mexico, supported the business development of various social enterprises in Estonia, and worked as a communication officer for ABN AMRO Bank (The Netherlands). She holds an MSc in strategic leadership towards sustainability (Sweden), a Master in marketing and business direction (Spain), and a Bachelor in political science (Mexico). Ginnie is also part of the Forum Visions in Action, and coaches youth-led organizations and individuals in their efforts to enable more sustainable ways of living.

Charlotte Louise Jensen

Associate Professor, Aalborg University

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As Associate Professor at Aalborg University in Copenhagen, Charlotte works with sustainable everyday-life futures in the context of circular economy. She treats sustainable consumption and production patterns as outcomes of sustainable social practices and circular societies.

Glenda Kasonde

Head Environment & Sustainability Assurance, Konkola Copper Mines plc

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"Eng. Glenda Mulenga Kasonde Chemical Engineer and Sustainability Professional with nearly 26 years experience in the mining industry. I am an active member of the Zambia Chamber of Mines (ZCM) HSE Committee programmes and with this experience, I am well positioned as an avid local and global networker.  I have a track record of the linkages that I have facilitated between Industry, academia, Government and the community.  I believe that for development to happen, we have to look for local solutions by enabling innovation and supporting this through local and international networks which I am always keen to support."

Sylvia Lorek

Chair, Sustainable Europe Research Institute, Germany

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Sylvia Lorek holds a PhD in consumer economics and is trained to work on the interlinkages of the individual micro-economic and the societal macroeconomic perspective in which the scientific and societal discourses about sustainable consumption take place. As head of SERI Germany e.V. she is working on studies and as consultant for national and international organisations. She has a lecturer position at the University of Applied Science in Münster and held classes e.g. at the University of Helsinki, the Baltic University Program (BUP) and the Asia-Europe Foundation University. Sylvia is an organising member of SCORAI Europe, the Global Research Forum on Sustainable Consumption and Production (GRF-SCP) and on board of the Society for the European Roundtable on Sustainable Consumption and Production (ERSCP).

Morakane Madiba

Funder, Uhuru Career Guidance and Learning (NPO)

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I am passionate about skills development and socio-economic and environmental development that are ethically balanced. I am also interested in seeing and understanding how people from different background navigate the academic, social and business pathways and how these pathways implicate culture, relations, agency, gender, identity, and race. The goal is to ensure they are all equally equipped competitively for both local and international markets, where Ubuntu and professional ethics are put to the fore.

Tebogo Mashifana

Senior Lecturer, University of Johannesburg

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Dr. Tebogo Mashifana is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Johannesburg: Department of Chemical Engineering. She holds a Doctoral degree in Civil Engineering, a Master of Business Administration degree, a Postgraduate Diploma in Higher Education, and a certificate in Artificial Intelligence for Industry. Her research area is in solids wastes beneficiation to convert waste materials to value-added products and wastewater treatment. She has a great interest in developing sustainable, cost-effective, environmentally friendly, and suitable solutions to convert waste materials to useful and value-added products. Dr. Mashifana's research also focuses on resource recovery from wastes, working towards achieving Sustainable Development Goals 12 and 13.

Manu V. Mathai

Assistant Professor, Azim Premji University

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Manu V. Mathai is an assistant professor in the School of Development at Azim Premji University. His work problematizes the dominant development narrative and explores alternatives that advance justice in human well-being outcomes on a shared and finite planet. His areas of interest include sustainable production-consumption systems, sustainable energy, local governance and technology choice. Prior to Azim Premji University, he taught at the United Nations University Institute of Advanced Studies (UNU-IAS) and the Rochester Institute of Technology Department of Science, Technology and Society/Public Policy, and was a research associate at the University of Delaware Center for Energy and Environmental Policy. His publications include Nuclear Power, Economic Development Discourse and the Environment: The Case of India (Routledge, 2013) and Green Growth: Ideology, Political Economy and the Alternatives (Zed Books, 2016). Manu holds a B.Sc. in Environmental Science from Bangalore University, an M.Sc. in Wildlife Science from the Wildlife Institute of India, an M.P.P. from the University of Maryland and a PhD in Energy and Environmental Policy, from the University of Delaware.

Steven R. McGreevy

Visiting Associate Professor, Research Institute for Humanity and Nature

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Steven McGreevy is an environmental sociologist and associate professor at the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN). He has a background in agriculture, rural sustainable development, and environmental education. His research focuses on novel approaches to rural revitalization that utilize local natural resources, sustainable knowledge dynamics, sustainable agrifood and energy transition, and the relinking of patterns of food consumption and production in local communities. He is leads a five-year RIHN research project entitled “Lifeworlds of Sustainable Food Consumption and Production: Agrifood Systems in Transition.”

Shruti Neelakantan

Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow, Dublin City University

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Shruti Neelakantan is a Marie Sklodowska-Curie fellow part of the European Training Network H2020 at the Dublin City University. Her research is built on the theme of India and environment politics and through an examination of state-level climate plans, she explores the role of international donor Indian sub-national climate policy. Interested in climate change policy, politics, and related projects.

Jaco Quist

Assistant Professor, TU Delft

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Jaco Quist is an assistant professor in Sustainable Innovation and Transitions at the Technology, Policy & Management Faculty, Delft University of Technology. He has completed a dissertation on participatory backcasting that was published by Eburon Publishers in 2007 entitled Backcasting for a sustainable future: the impact after 10 years (see www.eburon.nl or repository.tudelft.nl). His research and teaching evolves around sustainable innovation and transitions, in particular around participatory visioning, backcasting and transition management. His research includes: (i) Making visions for transitions, e.g. through applying participatory backcasting and transition management, developing specific tools, methods and modelling for this; (ii) Evaluating the impact of visioning processes, not only shortly after completion and how these have been turned into pathways, but also five to ten years later, and (iii) Vision dynamics in emerging niches and transitions. The includes how emerging visions relate to social innovation, learning, sustainable consumption and new business models. Work is done on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP), Circular Economy, Renewable Energy, Climate Adaptation, and Urban Agriculture and Food. Jaco Quist has been the (co)editor of special issues in Technological forecasting (2011, on “Backcasting for sustainable futures”) and in the Journal of Cleaner Production in2013 (on “sustainable Innovation & Sustainable business models” and on “Learning and Collaboration for Sustainable Innovation and Consumption”), and in 2019 (forthcoming, SCP in a Circular Economy).

Thomas Anton Reuter

Professor, University of Melbourne

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Prof Dr Reuter is an anthropologist at the University of Melbourne with a research focus on transformative social change and sustainability in Asia and beyond. He is on the board of the World Academy (WAAS), past chair of the World Council of Anthropological Associations and former executive member of the International Science Council. He is a frequent advisor to international organisations and national governments, and has published 15 books as well as more than 150 articles.

Leida Rijnhout

Owner and Independent Consultant, Leapfrog2SD

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Leida Rijnhout is a national Dutch and has a background in cultural anthropology with more than 30 years of experience in international development cooperation (focus on rural development in Bolivia) and sustainability. For many years, she facilitated and coordinated the global NGO community to realise their active engagement in United Nations processes on Sustainable Development and Environment. For that reason, she was heavily involved at and in the preparations of the Summit on Sustainable Development in 2002 (Johannesburg), at Rio+20 in 2012 (Rio de Janeiro) and in the development of the UN 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, including the Sustainable Development Goals. She is the European Focal Point for civil society in Europe, in the 10-year Framework on Sustainable Consumption and Production (UNEP). And was the representative for the Environmental NGOs at the OECD, until shortly. At UNEA2 (2016) and UNEA3 (2017) she is the co-chair of the Major Group Facilitating Committee, and the main contact for UNEA and member states for the civil society groups. She was Director Global Policies and Sustainability at the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), and since September 2016 program coordinator Resource Justice and Sustainability at Friends of the Earth Europe. She is member of the High Level Steering Group of the European Innovation Partnership on Raw Materials. She initiated a broad alliance of civil society organisations SDG Watch Europe and is member of the Steering Group. As representative for this alliance she is also member of the EU Multi Stakeholder Platform on the implementation of the 2030 Agenda, chaired by EU Vice President Frans Timmermans. Leida was also coordinator of an international think tank on ecological debt and environmental justice. She is full member of the Club of Rome, EU Chapter. She is member of the SSCP group, working on macro economics. She always combined scientific research work, activists’ approaches, field experiences and policy work. She wrote many articles and chapters of books on strong sustainability and speaks Dutch, English and Spanish.

Daigee Shaw

Research Fellow, Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica

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Daigee Shaw, Research Fellow at the Institute of Economics, Academia Sinica in Taipei, specialized in economic analysis and policy analysis related to natural resources, environmental quality, and sustainability issues. Dr. Shaw has served as President of Chung-Hua Institution for Economic Research from 2006 to 2011, President of the East Asian Association of Environmental and Resource Economics during 2012 and 2013, President of the Chinese Regional Science Association-Taiwan from 2011 to 2013, and President of the Taiwan Association of Environmental and Resource Economics during 2014, 2015, 2018 and 2019. Dr. Shaw is also Professor in National Cheng-Chi University and National Taipei University. Dr. Shaw has published many articles in a number of professional journals, including American Economic Review, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, Environmental Economics and Policy Studies, Natural Hazards, Energy Policy, and Risk Analysis. Dr. Shaw won the Ministry of Education Academic Award for Distinguished Scholarship in 1995. He received his Ph.D. in resource policy, economics and management from the University of Michigan in 1985.

Renuka Thakore

University College of Estate Management

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Dr Renuka Thakore is the Founder of Global Sustainable Futures: Progress through Partnership Network to achieve Sustainable Development Agenda 2030 targets. She provides a collaborative platform for innovative and transdisciplinary partnerships and capacity development for early career researchers joined by senior experienced researchers from Global South and Global North. Dr Thakore believes in broader concept and uses multi-dimensional lens (social, economic, environmental, political, institutional, cultural, and technological) of sustainability, theoretical framings, and innovations to address the problems of societal systems and propagates this through various activities – research, teaching, and practice. She encourages systems thinking, engagement and active participation of multiple stakeholders for effective governance and management for sustainable transformations, use of transdisciplinary research methodology to co-create solutions that are multi-modal and ‘value-added’ to relevant stakeholders.

Ria Lambino

Science Officer, Future Earth Asia Center

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Ria Lambino is based at the Research Institute for Humanity & Nature (RIHN) in Kyoto as Specially Appointed Associate Professor.  She received her PhD and Masters from Kyoto University Graduate School of Global Environmental Studies.  She has a degree in Applied Physics (although never applied it) but has spent most of her professional career as a practitioner and researcher focusing on environmental conservation and sustainability, with significant experience in the Philippines and in Japan. Prior to joining Future Earth, she worked for WWF Philippines as Vice President for Sustainable Production and Market Engagement and had been involved in transdisciplinary research on watershed governance at RIHN.  Her research interests include environmental policy and governance, protected areas & management, renewable energy, water issues, sustainable agriculture & fisheries and sustainable consumption and production.

Masami Oka

Communications Officer, Future Earth Asia Center

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