After 10 years in #circularity, I have compiled a list featuring 100 people and organizations, who I think you should follow. In this twenty-fourth post, I am focusing on people and organizations examining how our economy needs to be restructured and changed to allow for circularity. Their work looks at how businesses can implement circular and ethical practices into their operations, and it examines larger #system transformations that would allow for the material needs – of the renewable energy sector and other industries – to be met going forward.

93) Anne Raudaskoski is the founder of Re-Generous Unlimited, and she also co-founded Ethica Finland. Anne works as a circular economy strategist helping companies move towards regenerative, carbon-neutral, and circular ways of operating. Anne believes that we can re-design the systems around us for the better. In light of this, she helped create the Finnish Circular Design Programme and the Nordic Circular Design Programme for companies. Anne regularly gives talks about circularity, and she published a book called “Circular Strategies for Success”. 

94) Fabiana Di Lorenzo works as a senior director at the Responsible Business Alliance, where she leads the Responsible Minerals Initiative’s impact and innovation work. Fabiana is an expert in human rights and responsible sourcing, with a focus on minerals and metals. Her work broadly explores what responsible sourcing could look like throughout global mineral supply chains and within a circular economy. In line with this, Fabiana works with policymakers, industry, and academia to improve traceability throughout supply chains and make sure both primary and secondary raw materials are managed more responsibly and ethically.

95) Jack Arnold, Martin Dietrich Brauch, and Perrine Toledano conduct research at Columbia University and the Columbia Center on Sustainable Investment. In 2023, they co-authored the report titled “Circularity in Mineral and Renewable Energy Value Chains: Overview of Technology, Policy, and Finance Aspects”. The report examined the increasing material needs of the energy transition, and it outlined the “reforms needed to enable global circularity in the mineral value chains of solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and wind turbines”.

96) Ralitza Naydenova is a specialist on materials systems at the World Economic Forum. In the past, she has also worked as a senior associate on the Circular Economics Partnership at the WBCSD – World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Her work revolves around building partnerships and finding system solutions to transition from a linear to a circular economy.

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