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HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMIC PROFILES

OCTOBER 2015 V.4

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1HIGHER EDUCATION ACADEMIC PROFILES V.4 OCTOBER 2015

The ‘Higher Education Academic Profiles’ is a document outlining the roles and interests of the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s key academic contacts with the aim to facilitate connections with CE100 members. The Foundation has established three interlinking programmes at Higher Education level: Pioneer, Partner and Network. The profiles aim to highlight the individuals’ relevant expertise in relation to the circular economy so that CE100 members can connect with them and their institutions to develop collaborations, such as research programmes and training capabilities.

PIONEER UNIVERSITIES

Higher education institutions entering the CE100 membership group with a formal agreement to further the collective understanding of the circular economy model through pioneering research and/or teaching programmes.

PARTNER UNIVERSITIES

Partner Universities are those involved in the Schmidt MacArthur Fellowship — an international programme for postgraduate students and their university tutors with the aim to develop the skills and innovative thinking required to transition to a circular economy.

NETWORK UNIVERSITIES

Enabling collaborative ventures and knowledge exchange across policymakers, business and academia outside of the Foundation’s formal programmes.


Arizona State University

Dr. Raj Buch,

Walton Global Sustainability Solutions Services

Strategic sustainability • Institutional sustainability assessment • Sustainable supply chain

ASU’s W. P. Carey Department of Supply Chain Management research advances knowledge in global supply chain management while focusing on issues of practical importance, and our faculty is globally recognised for expertise in sustainability, procurement, supply management, operations management, and logistics and supply chain performance optimisation.

Contact: [email protected]

Dr. Tom Seager

School of Sustainable Engineering and the Built Environment

Environmental decision analysis • Environmental impacts analysis • Engineering ethics

Complex Adaptive Systems (CAS) involves

studying highly interactive, dynamic and often de-centralised systems that change over individual and evolutionary time scales. With over seven billion individuals divided into innumerable social and economic roles, synergistically transitioning the global economy from linear to circular, while restoring the environment, may become the ultimate CAS challenge.


Mick Dalrymple


Sustainable infrastructure • Renewable energy • Sustainable communities

ASU’s Biomimicry Center employs the transdisciplinary practice of biomimicry to address a variety of sustainability challenges using nature’s 3.8 billion year of R&D experience. The Center brings biologists into collaboration with disciplines as diverse as architecture, management, engineering and even psychology to create sustainable solutions.


Dan O’Neill


Urban socio-ecological systems, Sustainable innovation, Sustainable urban development

ASU’s Office of Entrepreneurship + Innovation connects all entrepreneurs and innovators across the Arizona State University (ASU) ecosystem. At ASU, we inspire action. We harness knowledge for innovation and create purposeful ventures so that the community of entrepreneurs learns to thrive through various incubation, acceleration and entrepreneur programs.



Bradford University

Prof. Peter Hopkinson

Leader of the University of Bradford’s Centre for the Circular Economy (CCE)

Peter leads the new Circular Economy MBA from the School of Management, as well as the online Executive Education short course with the Foundation and its CE100 programme. The work of the CCE is to support the transition to a circular economy and Peter works extensively with academics and students across a wide range of subject areas and research strengths (including polymers, advanced manufacturing, health, life sciences and marketing, strategy, finance) to embed circular economy within the broader University landscape.

Peter has specific research interests in product-service and wider business model innovation, change management and the academic development and critiquing of the circular economy. He and his team work extensively with local and regional businesses and organisations, in all shapes and forms, to find opportunities and inspiration in the circular economy.


Will Stewart

Educational Designer at the re:centre for the Circular Economy

Will is a member of the team working in the re:centre for the Circular Economy at the University of Bradford. His roles include teaching and research in Higher Education practice, and supporting academic staff in the use of technology to enhance teaching and learning. He is also involved in the design and delivery of online courses and is currently on secondment to support the development of Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) within the University.

Over the past 4 years he has worked with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation designing and delivering online courses on circular economy for managers and other key people in some of the world’s top global companies.

His background is in Biology and Environmental Science. Will currently works alongside Professor Peter Hopkinson and Michele Miller in the re:centre.


Michele Miller

re:centre for the Circular Economy

Michele has a background in building consensus for partnership development. She has worked across all three primary sectors with a myriad of companies such as: Coca Cola, Beecham Group, The Pacific Institute and Common Purpose.

Her primary role is to initiate and develop resilient partnerships with innovative organisations where there is a desire to build circular economy capacity and grasp the opportunities.

Her passion is to facilitate business to work effectively with academics and other enabling organisations to transfer theory into practice. She currently works alongside Professor Peter Hopkinson and Will Stewart in the re:centre.



Cranfield University

Dr Fiona Charnley

Master of Design Program Director within the Centre for Creative Competitive Design

Sustainable Product & Service Design • Whole Systems Design • Closed Loop Innovation • Alternative Models of Production & Consumption

Fiona’s research interests lie within the field of system level design and manufacturing for a more sustainable, regenerative and circular economy. Fiona leads the university wide initiative at Cranfield to develop research and teaching programmes to support the transition towards a circular economy. She has worked with multiple organisations across industry sectors including Cisco, Dragon Rouge, Rolls-Royce, Granta Design and Environcom to facilitate the implementation of systems thinking and closed loop innovation.

Fiona leads the EPSRC funded Network in Consumer Goods, Big Data and Re-Distributed Manufacture (RECODE), which is a two year programme to develop a multi-disciplinary vision and research agenda associated with the application of big data in the transition towards a re-distributed manufacturing model for consumer goods.


Dr Leon Williams

Head of the Centre for Design (C4D), SEEA

Design Strategy & Creative Leadership • New Innovation & Game Changing Solutions • Behaviour Change-Maker for Design/Innovators


Dr Philip Longhurst

Reader in Environmental Technology

Waste and Resource Management Processes • Risk Assessment for Use of Reused Materials • Technology Assessment for Process Innovation

Philip’s research interests are in resource management and impact reduction from waste. The majority of his current projects include the recovery and diversion of materials from landfill. Current relevant research includes: the recovery of metals and energy production from phytoremediation crops, risk assessment for the use of organic waste applications to land, and better regulation to promote good environmental behaviour and riskbased decisions by regulators.


Prof Simon Pollard

Pro-Vice-Chancellor School of Energy, Environment & Agrifood

Energy • Environmental Technology • Agrifood

Simon’s contributions seek to reconcile societal unease about pollution with organisational responsibilities for its reduction and safe management. His research has focussed on the practice of waste engineering, risk management, policy analysis and corporate risk governance. Recent grants have examined organisational competencies in preventative risk management, especially within the international water sector as it responds to calls for sustained service levels under conditions of constrained access to finance, climate change and increasing water scarcity. Simon is the champion for a new PhD training centre in environmental risk and big data, hosted by Cranfield, Newcastle, Birmingham and Cambridge Universities.Contact: [email protected]


HEC Paris

Prof Jerome Gasquet

Affiliate Professor

Strategy Implementation • Operations • Management • Supply Chain Management • Logistics

Jerome is an Affiliate Professor at HEC Paris. A regular lecturer in Executive Education programs, he has been an active member of the Executive MBA Faculty for over 10 years.

Imperial College London

Prof Peter Childs

Head of School of Design Engineering

Design Thinking • Disruptive Market Innovation • Creativity Tools

Peter is the Professorial Lead in Engineering Design and Head of the School of Design Engineering at Imperial College London. His general interests include: creativity tools and innovation, design process and design rationale, fluid flow and heat transfer, sustainable energy component, concept and system design.


Dr Mike Tennant

Centre for Environmental Policy & EPSRC Centre for Industrial Sustainability (CIS)

Broad & Deep Understanding of Sustainability, practically (Industrial Sustainability) and Philosophically • Systems Thinking

Mike’s research focuses on the application of systems thinking and sustainability to industrial problems. Working with the CIS he leads a group looking at the future of manufacturing under broad sustainability constraints and recently contributed to the UK Government’s Future of Manufacturing Foresight Report.

He uses the circular economy and other strategies as tools to understand how industry could be configured to meet carbon, resource and population targets.



Kedge Business School

Louise Canning

Associate Professor of Marketing

Louise’s own research interests centre around the interface between business and consumer markets, including behavioural and relational changes linked to disposal practices. Louise heads up the research chair ‘Business as Unusual’. The Chair examines ‘new managerial practices through a sustainability lens’ working with a mixture of corporate, NGO, and institutional partners to develop understanding of how circular, service and collaborative systems can contribute to more sustainable business practices.

The Chair draws from academic and partner expertise in sustainable development, innovation, markets and consumption and supply chain management as the basis for collaborative research projects, the development of pedagogic content and the dissemination of best practice.


Danielle Castagnoni

Associate Professor of Marketing

Danielle has significant marketing experience in the FMCG and food industry. Her experience in business and education gives her both pragmatic and conceptual competence in the following fields: strategic marketing, innovation and product launches, and creativity. Her interests and fields of research are related to sustainable development, including the creation of sustainable products and services.

Danielle manages the pedagogical development of the Chair, “Business as Unusual”, and integrates the circular economy framework in Kedge Business School mainstream teaching, as well as specialised courses.


Anja Stoll

Head of Knowledge Transfer

Anja works at Kedge Business School and is Head of Knowledge Transfer at the Research department. She manages the stakeholder relations of the Chair, “Business as Unusual”, and thus develops and facilitates the industry relations on innovative business models, circular economy and new business practices.



London Business School

Prof. Yiannis Ioannou

Strategy & Entrepreneurship

Examining the role of investors and capital markets in promoting a sustainable society in general, and sustainable and socially responsible business practices in particular • Investigating the multilevel drivers of socially responsible behaviour by corporations • Sustainable Enterprise

Prof. Ioannou focuses on Sustainability and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), exploring how environmental, social and corporate governance strategies are strategically adopted, effectively embedded and successfully implemented.


Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Prof. John Fernandez

Building Technology Program

Urban metabolism: the resource requirements of cities • Materials for buildings: emergent and sustainable materials for the built environment • Urban transitions: pathways toward alternative urban scenarios for both the developed and developing regions of the world

John Fernandez is a practising architect and research leader in sustainable buildings and cities. He leads the Urban Metabolism Group at MIT examining the resource requirements of contemporary urbanisation and alternative urban futures. Prof. Fernandez also directs the Emergent Materials Group focusing on novel and sustainable materials.


Dr Alexis H. Bateman

Research Associate with the Center for Transportation and Logistics

Sustainable Supply Chain Strategy • Closed Loop Supply Chains • Sustainable Business Industry Standards

At MIT, Alexis works together with other researchers who are building knowledge in the area of sustainable supply chains. Past research includes carbon footprint measurement, redesigning logistics networks, analysis of industry standards, and development strategies for green supply chain management in collaboration with industry partners around the world.

Her current and future research objectives include developing robust green supply chain management strategies, understanding how industry standards can be best developed, maintained and implemented, and further research on closed loop supply chains.



Monterrey Institute of Technology

Carlos Scheel

Systemic Approach to the Sustainable Growth of Developing Regions • Industrial Ecology Systems • Regional Innovation Systems

The Research and Development Line (“Sustainable Wealth creation based on Innovation and Technology: SWIT Model”) from the EGADE Business School of the Monterrey Institute of Technology (Mexico) is currently working on the following themes: systemic approach for the sustainable growth of developing regions, industrial ecology systems, regional innovation systems.

EGADE uses these concepts towards the creation of a “holistic consciousness” and a natural ecosystem that considers entrepreneurial, regional and human development aspects, all oriented toward a transition from linear chains to regional cyclic value systems.

Also the creation of “alternative wealth” that is environmentally regenerative, economically viable and socially equitable, based on the development of self-sustaining communities, and prepared to be inserted into highly competitive regional ecosystems.

EGADE are currently working on several projects in Latin America applying the SWIT Model, that has adapted several concepts like: circular economy, blue economy, industrial ecology, regenerative actions, systemic thinking and systemic economy.


National Institute of Design, India

Details to be confirmed

Northumbria University

Mark Bailey

Director of Innovation Design Programmes

Design for Behaviour Change • Multidisciplinary (Responsible) Innovation • Design for Services

Mark Bailey and his students work with organisations across all sectors to look beyond the obvious and identify the behavioural drivers that govern how a system, service or product is used.

He uses these insights to create new opportunities and new knowledge about innovation practices.



Politecnico di Milano

Davide Chiaroni

Director MIP Management Academy, Co-founder Energy & Strategy Group

Circular Economy Business Models • Energy and Environmental Sustainability • Smart & Energy Efficient Technologies

Davide is Co-founder of the Energy & Strategy Group, managing permanent observatories on renewable energies, energy efficiency and smart grids, and actively promoting the debate about the future of sustainability.

Through his connections with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Davide has further explored the possibilities of exploiting the circular economy for new business models and has been responsible for circular economics entering into the curricula of MBA and Executive Programmes.

Davide is a member of the Management Committee at MIP, the Business School of Politecnico di Milano, where he serves as Director of the MIP Management Academy.


Rochester Institute of Technology

Prof Nabil Nasr

Associate Provost & Director, Golisano Institute for Sustainability

Remanufacturing and the Circular Economy • Sustainable Product Development • Sustainable Manufacturing

Nabil’s research focuses on remanufacturing and resource recovery within a circular economy framework including technology, business models, and reverse logistics system development. He also works on developing comprehensive corporate sustainability metrics and strategies for sustainable manufacturing.

He developed sustainable design tools and methodologies for several industrial applications and provided guidance in the sustainable product development area. An area of specific focus is model development for global product support strategies including repair, refurbishment, and remanufacturing.


Rotterdam Business School

Cor Van Leuven

Research Lecturer, Sustainability Coordinator

SMEs in High Technology (HT) • Knowledge Intensive Services (KIS) sectors • Circular Economy

RBS aims at delivering competent professionals to SMEs. Teaching the skills in managing sustainable development in which the Circular Economy concepts is vital to achieve this goal.

One of the four research programs within the research platform of the RBS is focusing on the transition from linear to circular economy business models in the HT and KIS sectors. It involves both teachers and students, therefore the research is embedded in the study programme. Students and teachers are working together on conducting research for current and future company challenges: this makes education more interactive and participatory. Conducting research also improves the quality of the teachers. RBS now offers a minor in Circular Economy (in the Cloud) & Business Innovation.



SKEMA Business School

Christophe Sempels

Professor of Sustainable Development and Entrepreneurship, co-founder of Innovateur T

Christophe specialises in sustainable business model innovation and transformative innovation. He is particularly recognized for his expertise in functional and cooperation economy. The primary goal of these models is to decrease the amount of material resources engaged in productive processes (through the circular economy), while simultaneously increasing the amount of immaterial resources in the process of value creation, distribution and capture. Christophe is the co-founder of the European Institute of Functional and Cooperation Economy and the scientific director of Club Cap EF, both being associations promoting FCE in Europe (Institute) and in the South of France (Club Cap EF).

He is also the co-founder of Innovateur T, an innovative lab for business transformers contributing to the transition of institutions and enterprises towards agile, sustainable, innovative and creative development models. More information available on www.skema.edu and www.innovateur-t.com


Royal College of Art

Clare Brass

Head of SustainRCA

Closed Loop Design • Systems Thinking • Future Scenario Buildings

As Head of the Royal College of Art’s new cross-departmental centre for sustainability, SustainRCA, Clare works with young creatives, entrepreneurs, designers, engineers and business, supporting the creation of positive social and environmental futures. As a product and industrial designer she was Leader of Sustainability at the UK’s Design Council before setting up social enterprise SEED Foundation.

She is a skilled business coach and a Senior Design Tutor on the Innovation Design Engineering program at the RCA and Imperial College London.


Stanford University

Dr Jonathan Edelman

Director of Interdisciplinary Design at the Product Realization Lab

Visual & Material Culture • Design Theory & Methodology • Design Education

Culture = Objects + Behaviours + Narratives. When we design we are creating culture. Through composing artifacts we create new behaviours as well as new narratives that point beyond the present. In order to make positive and lasting impact, we must teach students a systems-based approach to design that takes into account the network that connects touch points to supply chains and the sourcing of materials and energy.



Tongji University

Prof. Zhu Dajian

Distinguished Professor of School of Economics & Management and Director of Institute of Governance for Sustainable Development

Prof. Dajian’s research interests include circular economy, corporate social responsibility, sustainable development, particularly in product-service systems and the sharing economy.

He was a senior research scholar at Harvard University during 2005 and a visiting research fellow at Melbourne University between 1994– 1995. He was a member of the Global Agenda Council (GAC) on Urbanisation (2010–2012) and he is currently a member of the GAC on Circular Economy (2014–2016) at the World Economic Forum (WEF).

He is an adviser on circular economy to the Chinese government, both at state and provincial level. He introduced the concept of CE into China’s academic circles in 1998 and since that he has published 2 books and more than 50 papers.


TU Berlin

Thomas Guidat

Local Value Creation Networks • Strategies and Qualification for Sustainable Manufacturing • Remanufacturing Technologies and Business Models

TU Berlin’s main objectives are to facilitate the value creation from locally available resources or end-of-life strategies for circular economy, to qualify through learning instruments that enable sustainable manufacturing, as well as to collaborate internationally to leverage co-creation between industrialised and emerging countries in engineering education and entrepreneurship.



TU Delft

David Peck

Senior teaching and research fellow, critical materials and circular design

Critical materials as a circular driver • History of scarcity and circular solutions • Circular education and funding opportunities

David researches and teaches in the field of critical materials and circular design.

David is the university leader for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation pioneer university programme and is the representative for all the university faculties. He has also been a mentor for the Schmidt MacArthur fellowship programme.

He is manager for TU Delft in a range of international circular projects such as EU EIT Raw Materials, EU FP7 entitled CRM_Innonet, EU Horizons 2020 project, ProSUM - Prospecting Secondary raw materials in the Urban Mine and mining waste and ERN – European Remanufacturing Network. He is a key TU Delft contact point for EU and other international funding opportunities.


Dr Renee Wever

Assistant Professor, Design & Engineering

Packaging Design • User/Citizen Behaviour within Circular Economy • Incorporation of Sustainability • Circularity in Front-end Innovation (i.e. Design briefs)

As a tenured assistant Professor in Design for Sustainability Renee focuses on the inclusion of sustainability at the front end of the design process. He has completed a PhD project on sustainable packaging for durable goods. Besides his PhD he pioneered a separate research line relating to the induction of sustainable behaviour through design.


Conny Bakker

Associate Professor, faculty of Industrial Design Engineering

Circular Product Design

Conny coordinates and teaches several courses in Sustainable Design and Circular Product Design. Her research field is Design for the Circular Economy, in particular the design and development of products that are used more than once (i.e. that have multiple lifecycles). It explores strategies such as product life-extension, reuse, remanufacturing and recycling, and the business models that enable these strategies. A second research interest is the field of user centred sustainable design, which focuses on exploring the relationships between consumer behaviour, sustainability and design. Conny Bakker holds a PhD in ‘environmental information for industrial designers’, which she obtained in 1995 while working at the research organisation TNO.



University of California, Berkeley

Prof Thomas McKone

Professor of Environmental HealthSciences

Health & Environmental Footprint of Industrial & Energy Systems • Understanding Human Disease Burden • Guiding the Development of Sustainable Energy Systems

Thomas is a leader of energy/environmental systems research at the Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and a Professor of Environmental Health Sciences at the University of California, Berkeley. His research focuses on the health and environmental impacts of energy, industrial, and agricultural systems, and informs decisions on a broad range of government and industry organisations.


University of Chile

Barbara Rodriguez

Material Life Cycle • Innovative Building Materials • Urban Adaptive Infrastructure Systems

Expert on urban adaptive infrastructure systems, leading research and collaboration efforts partnering with academia, industry and government to develop solutions across the materials lifecycle, as well as reduce the impact of the risks posed to urban infrastructure by climate change in cities.


University College London

Teresa Domenech

Research Associate at the Institute forSustainable Resources

Industrial Symbiosis • Closing the loop of Manufacturing Sector/Sustainable Supply Chains • Resource Efficiency — Policies for Resource Efficiency

Teresa has a PhD in industrial symbiosis that looks at the opportunities derived from closer inter-company collaboration to increase the resource efficiency of manufacturing systems.

She is currently leading a European research project on policy mixes for resource efficiency. She also has expertise in the implementation of ISO 14001 and in the undertaking of Life Cycle Assessments and Material Flow Analyses.

Teresa is a founding co-director of a new initiative at UCL called Circular Economy Lab, or CircEL, which aims to use UCL expertise to tackle a range of problems in the drive towards a more circular economy, see http://www.ucl.ac.uk/circular-economy-lab for more information.



University of Queensland

Dr Glen Corder

Principal Research Fellow, Centre for Social Responsibility in Mining, Sustainable Minerals Institute

Industrial ecology and industrial symbiosis in the extractive industries • Sustainability frameworks for project development systems • Sustainable design strategies • Responsible mining and processing practices

Glen’s research interests centre on the practical application of industrial ecology principles for improving the extractive industries’ sustainability performance and its contribution to the circular economy. He is currently leading a program of work in the Wealth from Waste Cluster project that focuses on the barriers and enablers of ‘mining’ metals contained in the collections of discarded manufactured products, consumer goods and industrial large-scale waste. He has also had a long-standing involvement in the research and development of a risks and opportunities framework for enhancing the integration of sustainability concepts into the early design phases of new projects in the extractive industry.


University of Sheffield

Dr Nick Taylor Buck

Research Associate at the Institute forSustainable Resources

Nick is currently the PI on an international World Universities Network project concerning Integrated Infrastructures and their responses to climate change induced shocks. He also teaches the level 4 ‘Sustainable Development in Practice’ module to Town & Regional Planning and Geography students. The Urban Institute is dedicated to tackling the issues around shaping future cities, which includes the resource and energy flows of a circular economy. Nick works with a broad range of academics, industry partners and local authorities to help embed circular economy thinking within the future cities discourse. Nick has specific research interests in: the development of integrated infrastructures as socio-technical systems, particularly the crucial role of ‘institutional architectures’ within this process; biomimetic urban design and modelling principles; and business model innovation. He joined the Urban Institute from a career in sustainable built environment consultancy, and has a background in Zoology and Environmental Science.


Prof Lenny Koh

Chair Professor in Operations Management, is the Founder and Director of the Advanced Resource Efficiency Centre (AREC), Logistic and Supply Chain Management (LSCM) Research Centre, and Faculty´s Centre for Energy, Environment and Sustainability (CEES)

Lenny’s expertise is in low carbon futures / industries, low carbon supply chain, resource and energy efficiency, environment and sustainability science, circular economy, and uncertainty management. With high H-index (World number 2) and high research income generation in her discipline internationally, she is also Cross-Cutting Chief of a 2022 Futures initiative for advancing supply chain resource sustainability. Lenny works collaboratively with industries, governments and top academic institutions nationally, regionally and internationally in her research, and has led suites of knowledge exchange projects. She is a firm believer in developing low carbon and closed-loop supply chains whilst also shifting to a balanced energy mix and sustainable resource use.



University of Technology Sydney

Prof Stuart White

Director of the Institute for Sustainable Futures

Stuart leads a team of researchers who create change towards sustainable futures through independent, project-based research. With over twenty years’ experience in sustainability research, Professor White’s work focuses on achieving sustainability outcomes at the lowest cost for a range of government, industry and community clients across Australia and internationally. This includes both the design and evaluation of programs for improving resource use efficiency and an assessment of their impact. Professor White has written and presented widely on sustainable futures and is a regular commentator on sustainability issues in the media including phosphorous futures and decentralised energy.

Dr Melissa Edwards

Senior Lecturer at the UTS Business School

Melissa’s research work takes an interdisciplinary approach that spans sustainability, social impact and complexity

theory. She is currently developing Australian circular economy case studies that are implemented in the UTS postgraduate and undergraduate sustainability business courses. Research is uncovering how managers reinvent traditional business models to overcome systemic barriers in the implementation of circular flows.


Associate Prof Damien Giurcp

Research Director of Resource Futures at the Institute for Sustainable Futures

Modelling patterns of resource production and consumption • Developing policies and strategies to support sustainability across minerals, water, waste and energy sectors in a digital future

Damien currently directs the Wealth from Waste Cluster an Australia-USA research collaboration developing new business models and transition pathways for metal stewardship in the circular economy. He is also co-chair of the World Resources Forum Asia-Pacific 2015 to be hosted in Sydney.


Prof Suzanne Benn

Professor of Sustainable Enterprise in UTS Business School

Suzanne has a background in the sciences and the social sciences. Her current research interests range across corporate sustainability and corporate social responsibility, business education for sustainability and leadership and organisational change for sustainability. Her interdisciplinary academic publications include four books and numerous refereed journal articles, book chapters and refereed conference papers. As well as conducting research funded through various Australian Research Council (ARC) projects, she has worked with many business and government organisations in order to progress understanding of change and leadership for sustainability. Her research currently is focussed on the circular economy and the implications for both social and environmental sustainability.



Yale University

Dr Barbara Reck

Research Scientist, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Material life cycles & efficiencies • Recycling • Criticality assessments

Barbara’s research centres on quantifying resource efficiency at the material level. She uses detailed life cycle characterisations to illustrate how the metals of modern technology are produced, traded, used, and recycled. This forms the basis for efficiency evaluations at the level of material use and recycling as well as for criticality assessments.


Reid Lifset

Research Scientist, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies

Industrial ecology • extended producer responsibility • municipal recycling

Reid is a Resident Fellow in industrial ecology and Editor-in-Chief of the Journal of Industrial Ecology, a peer-reviewed international scientific journal. His research focuses on the application of industrial ecology to novel problems and research areas, the evolution of extended producer responsibility (EPR), and the characterisation of global metal cycles.


The Foundation seeks to connect academia and industry to facilitate research and development in key areas, below are two initiatives that complement the Profile List, aiming to enable knowledge exchange and highlight research opportunities.

CE100 RESEARCH HOT LISTThe Ellen MacArthur Foundation is developing a Research Hotlist to stimulate research collaborations between CE100 members and the Foundation’s Academic network.

The Hot List will indicate what research areas are especially important to CE100 members in their transition towards a circular economy and how to get in touch with them.

It will be made available to the CE100 group through the library as well as to the academic network of the Foundation (Network, Partner and Pioneer Universities).

It will be a living document updated regularly as organisations’ priorities evolve.

The following four items will be communicated in the Hot Topics list:

The research areas of most importance to the organisation’s transition to a circular economy

Specific research projects planned in the short term

Contact details

How the organisation typically works with academia


PRIORITY RESEARCH AGENDAThe Ellen MacArthur Foundation has developed a Priority Research Agenda, based on its ongoing work with business and education networks. The agenda offers a list of questions that are currently not fully understood (although initial hypotheses and partial answers may exist) and that could play an important role in implementing a circular economy or in strengthening the model.

We developed this Priority Research Agenda with the aim to provide stimulus for future research. This will be a living document, to be regularly updated as our understanding of the issues evolves.

The questions we identified fit into five themes:

1 2 3 4 5Systemic methodology — nexus approach

Many connections link the various themes and issues relevant to the circular economy. What methodologies can help taking these interconnections into account?

The currentlandscape

What do we know about the linearity / circularity of the current economy? Can we create a repository of significant data?

Resource challenges

The economy is expected to face increasing resource challenges. How are these characterised?

The potential impact of a circular economy

Would a circular economy address upcoming resource challenges — and in what way? What other systemic challenges would circular economy help overcome?

Implementing a circular economy

What system conditions and initiatives would enable the transition to a circular economy?

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HIGHER EDUCATION TEAM

Jules HaywardEducation Programme Lead

Jules leads the education team across HE, schools and colleges and informal education programmes. Her work is currently focused on Pioneer and Network University development and as Project Lead on the Disruptive Innovation Festival.

jules@ellenmacarthurfoundationorg

Craig Johnson Education Programme Manager

Craig works on Pioneer university projects such as the MBA and Executive Education courses at the University of Bradford and Executive Masters at Cranfield University. He works with Jules on the development of the Higher Education strategy.

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Jo MillerHigher Education Programme Manager

Nora ClintonHigher Education Programme Coordinator

Jo and Nora work together to develop and deliver the Schmidt MacArthur Fellowship; they have a growing number of successful interactions between universities, students and CE100 members.

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This is a living document. For any enquiries / amends please contact: [email protected]

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