AUTHORS
Donal Daly
Donal is co-founder and CEO of Future Planet, an AI-based sustainability software company. Prior to Future Planet, he founded five global software companies that together served more than two million users in corporations around the world.
A graduate of University College Cork (Engineering) and KU Leuven, Belgium (SDGs), he has been a strategic advisor to the Irish Government in technology and sustainability and is author of multiple Amazon #1 Bestsellers.
Donal founded the Altify Foundation, a charitable and volunteer programme and is a long-term supporter of human-rights and social enterprises. As Entrepreneur-in-Residence in UCC, he mentors emerging businesses, particularly in the area of sustainability and green-tech.
Ingrid De Doncker
With more than two decades of pioneering work in sustainable procurement and supply chain management, Ingrid De Doncker has significantly advanced global sustainability initiatives.
As the cofounder and Head of Research and Innovation at Future Planet, she plays a crucial role in an ESG team that developed a platform that empowers organisations to create and implement robust sustainability strategies by structuring and managing their ESG data to effectively track and measure metrics, auto-generating transformation plans, and ensuring compliance with CSRD requirements.
A sought-after speaker both nationally and internationally, Ingrid is a lecturer at three of Ireland's universities. Her inclusive leadership and innovative approach to sustainability has earned widespread recognition, including the prestigious Irish Times Innovation Award in 2022. Ingrid's extensive advisory work on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) issues across numerous organisations, along with her expertise in public and private procurement in Ireland and Europe, underscores her significant contribution to promoting responsible business practices and sustainable procurement.
David Carlin
David Carlin is an acknowledged authority on climate change and its implications for the financial system. He is the founder of Cambium Global Solutions, an advisor to governments, corporates, and financial institutions on climate and ESG topics.
He has authored numerous reports that provide practical tools for financial actors looking to address climate change and has run capacity-building programmes for financial institutions and supervisors around the world.
David led the creation of UN Environment Programme’s Finance Initiative (UNEP FI)’s Risk Centre as the head of Risk. Over the past years, he has worked with over 100 global banks, investors, and insurers on climate scenarios, climate risk assessments, and climate governance.
He is an advisor to UNEP FI’s TNFD pilot program on nature and biodiversity related risks as well as the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA). He has also been a technical advisor to the Glasgow Financial Alliances for Net Zero (GFANZ). David is also a contributor to Forbes and a senior associate at Cambridge’s Institute for Sustainability Leadership (CISL) as well as a visiting fellow at King’s College London.
David has worked as a Principal in Finance, Risk, and Public Policy for Oliver Wyman and in Model Risk Management for PNC Bank. His background is in quantitative modelling and decision science.
Carlos Terol
Carlos has been on a changemaker journey for over 10 years, passionate about inspiring people to create a positive impact in the world.
Carlos is the Founder of Good Ripple, a global platform to connect changemakers that has grown from zero to 3,200+ members from 104 countries in 18 months. He is also a Climate Fresk Facilitator, a Speaker and a Top Corporate Sustainability Voice on LinkedIn with over 30,000 followers.
Harald Friedl
Harald is an internationally renowned circular economist. He is advising the United Nations in several countries and is working with top companies on their road towards circularity.
Harald has co-initiated the global yearly “Circularity Gap Report”, one of the most referenced publications in the field of circular economy. Harald has extensive consulting experience as CEO of the do-tank Circle Economy in Amsterdam.
He spearheaded the circular transition in his home country, Austria, when he served as Circular Economy Accelerator for the Austrian Government in 2022.
Elena Doms
Elena Doms was born and raised in the Arctic. Throughout her career she led a social impact youth NGO and worked as a Director at Mastercard, merging digital and sustainable transformations. Seeing her childhood home melt away and becoming a mother inspired Elena to quit her corporate job in search for impact.
In partnership with C-biotech, she launched +EARTH+ with a crazy bold mission: To create the largest Soil & CO2 cleanup with nature. +EARTH+ is an award-winning start-up that works with scientists, technology companies, industry, farmers and cities on restoring soils with plants. These plants are then turned into circular construction materials that help decarbonize our cities.
Elena is also a LinkedIn Top Green Voice, helping educate and inspire others for climate action. A sustainability keynote speaker and storyteller, who gathered audiences up to 4,500 people. An Arctic Artist, who paints icebergs and Northern Lights, sharing the beauty and the tales of the polar regions. And an Ambassador of Habitats Foundation, helping restore biodiversity.
Dr William Beer
Dr William Beer is the Owner and Founder of Tunley Environmental and is responsible for the overall strategy and growth of the business. Will is obsessed with continuous improvement and takes pride in managing and adapting to change across all departments of Tunley Environmental.
Being the “smartest person in the room” gives you nothing so Will surrounds himself by people who, in his words, are “better than him” to ensure the Tunley Environmental continues to improve its service competencies. Learning from others has, and continues to be a critical success factor in Tunley Environmental's growth.
With a professional background in multi-departmental transformation and an academic background in advanced full factorials, large datasets and combustion modelling, Will continues to apply innovation, change management and exploration skills to his role as the CEO of Tunley Environmental.
T.A.O. Garraty
Tara Garraty, BSc, MSc Conservation Biology, PhD Conservation Biology (Pending), is a seasoned sustainability and conservation scientist with a specialised background in ecology and conservation biology.
Tara holds a BSc and MSc degree in Conservation Biology, focusing on ecosystem services and ecosystem health, and is in the process of submitting her PhD in Conservation Biology, titled “An Ecological Model: Quantifying Links Between Biodiversity, Hydrological Events, and Climate Change within the Peruvian Amazon,” which focus on the impacts on biodiversity in a changing climate.
Tara’s career has concentrated on research and education in tropical and marine conservation, climate change, sustainability science, ecosystem function, biodiversity, and general ecology. Her in-depth research, which includes extensive statistical ecological and climatic modelling, offers a comprehensive understanding of the impacts of climate change on crucial tropical ecosystems.
Driven by her passion for preserving the planet, her main career goals are to contribute towards global conservation and sustainability objectives, educate public platforms on essential environmental issues, and promote sustainable practices through fieldwork, education, and research.
Oliver Dauert
Oliver Dauert is the founder & CEO of Wildya. In his role, he leads the strategy and business execution of the start-up.
He is a LinkedIn Top Green Voice & passionate biodiversity builder. Additionally, Oliver manages a business consulting agency for biodiversity businesses and NGOs (Wild Business Mates).
Prior to Wildya, Oliver worked in travel tech for Evaneos (B-Corp), managing transformative projects during the COVID crisis. As well as working in mobility tech (Moovel by Daimler), e-commerce (Saltwater Shop) & non-profit industry (Red Rhino Society/ESN).
Marije De Roos
Marije de Roos, AKA The Circular Fashion Detective, is a Dutch economist turned circular fashion pioneer. Her mission is to make landfills obsolete and hence she has developed a passion for materials and supply chains.
Marije’s startup Positive Fibers® combines science, design, and technology to put the ECO into eCommerce one positive product at a time. She is also the author of the forthcoming book Farm-to-Fashion, which helps fashion professionals to make truly circular fashion and lifestyle products that do more good than harm to the environment and people in the supply chains.
Elin Bergman
Elin Bergman is known for being Sweden's "circular economy queen", is named LinkedIn Top Green Voice and is a recognized international keynote speaker.
She works as a Circular Impact Officer and spokesperson of the Swedish circular economy network Cradlenet, and is also one of the co-founders of the Nordic Circular Hotspot, a collaboration platform for accelerating circular economy in the region.
Elin has also recently become a Founding Member of the Circular Economy Coalition - an international coalition of value-aligned individuals and organisations collectively advancing the circular economy through shared tools and resources, bridging the Global North and Global South. For many years she worked as WWF Sweden’s circular economy expert, where she developed the international circular economy network Baltic Stewardship Initiative, to enable the recirculation of nutrients in the Baltic Sea region in the agri-food sector.
Anna Triponel
Anna Triponel is an internationally renowned business, human rights and climate expert and founder and CEO of Human Level. Over the past decade, she has travelled the globe to advise hundreds of companies – as well as their investors and lawyers – on what it means to take a people-centred approach to business. Anna advises companies on human rights strategies, weaving human rights into climate strategies and just transition, and ways to adapt business models to be future fit.
She is an Advisor to Board members, VPs and General Counsels, and is a regular keynote speaker and featured commentator in the media. Anna is a Mediator for OECD National Contact Point instances, an International Human Rights Expert for a range of operational-level grievance mechanisms and sits on a number of advisory committees. She has lived and/or worked in the majority of countries on the African continent, running human rights impact assessment and stakeholder empowerment processes.
As a consultant at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, she worked with John Ruggie on the development of the 2011 UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. As Senior Advisor at the leading centre of expertise on the UNGPs Shift, she played an instrumental role in the development of the 2015 UN Guiding Principles Reporting Framework.
She has been a corporate lawyer in New York at Jones Day, an international human rights lawyer working across Africa and Asia at pro bonoNobel Peace Prize nominee firm PILPG, and a development lawyer in Washington DC at the World Bank. She holds three bars as a lawyer (New York, England & Wales, France – currently non-practising lawyer). Degrees include an LL.M. in International Law (American University Washington College of Law); Masters degree in international business / human rights law (University of Paris X); Business Sustainability Management (Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership) and MBA (Essentials from London School of Economics).
Minou Schillings
"If you never change your mind, why have one". This quote by E. De Bono best describes Minou's approach in a nutshell. As a Regenerative Transition Facilitator, Imagination Activist and Community Weaver, Minou invites and enables business leaders, founders and intrapreneurs to (un)learn business as usual, imagine radically different futures and transform to become stewards for regeneration.
Minou, born and raised in a forested area of the Netherlands, has embraced a slow nomadic life grounded in travelling and community living for the last 8 years. She chooses collaboration over competition and the train over a corner office. Minou's Dutch roots ensure you're in for a direct, no-nonsense, and Down-To-Gaia experience. She's a disarming speaker on a mission to make the complex accessible, the unimaginable possible and the future radically different and better for all life on earth.
With a Master's in Creativity and Innovation from the Edward De Bono Institute and a Bachelor's in Food Innovation (Malta) from HAS Green Academy (Hertogenbosch), Minou is armed with a unique skill set to lead you on a transformative journey. As a Systems thinker, guest lecturer, Keynote speaker and (un)learning experience designer, Minou holds provoking, safe, confronting and surprising spaces for businesses and individuals to transition towards regenerative thinking, leaving business-as-usual in the dust.
As the founder of The Green Sprint, author of the newsletter Shifting Horizons for Regenerative Futures, co-lead of Taste The Shift and Co-initiator of the Regenerative Marketing Movement, she commits herself with full compassion and curiosity to an experimental, collaborative, (un)learning approach to exploring pathways to regenerative futures.
Minou has been described as the definition of positivity. Not the façade annoying positivity, but the zero-bullshit, inspiring one that not only captures your attention but also instantly puts a smile on your face. There is one simple reason she remains this positive, an unrelenting belief in the compassion, kindness and care of humans. It's not knowledge we need to unlearn, but greed, hyper-individualism and short-term thinking, deep down we do remember how to take care of life on earth.
Joy Njeri
Joy Njeri Njihia is more than just a name; it represents a commitment to spreading joy and positive change wherever I go. I come from Kenya, which has breathtaking landscapes. My journey has taken me through civil society, corporate corridors, and entrepreneurial ventures, with each chapter deepening my understanding of my mission.
With over two decades of experience, I worked with data at L'Oreal East Africa to boost profits and build small businesses. As the founder of Fruity Pap, I was instrumental in converting food waste into value for local businesses. Aside from spreadsheets, my true calling is to advocate for justice, human rights, and equality. The International Criminal Court (ICC) and Kituo Cha Sheria were my allies in this endeavour.
"Togetherness is life" is based on Kikuyu wisdom. Community fuels my belief that collective action ignites transformative change. Having a social science degree has helped me bring my philosophy into my work.
I am currently a partner with "What Matters” and am actively working to create transformative change. I also help to create environments in which creativity and empathy thrive, and everyone, regardless of background, feels seen and valued.
My business acumen, social consciousness, and collaborative spirit fuel my collaborations with organisations and individuals, helping shape the world we want to live in.
Kowawa Kapukaja Apurinã
Kowawa Kapukaja Apurinã was born indigenous of the Apurinã ethnicity from Middle Purus in the state of Amazonas, Brazil.
Her work primarily focuses on indigenous education, environmental education, racial issues, affirmative actions, and indigenous women. She is a founding member of the Pupykary Institute of the Apurinã People, co- founder of the Brazilian Articulation of Indigenous Anthropologists (Abia), and co-founder of the Indigenous Artivism collective.
Kowawa serves as CEO of FemeNI/Fair of Black and Indigenous Women Entrepreneurs and curator/member of Ruidosa Alma/Trans Performance. She is a Ph.D. student in Anthropology at the Federal Fluminense University (UFF)/Sorbonne Paris 3, with a Bachelor’s degree in Law, a teaching degree in Visual Arts, and a Master’s degree in Anthropology, all obtained at the Federal University of Pelotas.
Kowawa also holds a Master’s degree in Education & Technology from the Sul-Rio-Grandense Federal Institute, with experience in Arts, Anthropology, Education & Law. Her research interests include indigenous peoples, violence, and indigenous ancestries.
Besides her academic pursuits, Kowawa is an artist, educator, and cultural producer.
Tiago Paes Vilas Boas
I was born in the ancestral lands of the Guarani people, once a thriving forest, now known as São Paulo State, Brazil. The country takes its name from a tree (Paubrasilia echinata) that was nearly driven to extinction within the first decades of colonization.
These lands were originally called Yby Marã E’ymam, or Land Without Sorrows. For 500 years, sorrow has entrenched itself in these lands, and peace has been elusive. In my youth, I realized I could not escape conflicts with the police, in my work, and with the state. The violence of colonial systems juxtaposed with the compassion of the many communities I belong to, led me to facilitate reciprocal and organic relationships between individuals, communities, and nature for more than a decade. I have sought to weave wisdom and an intercultural worldview, learning from indigenous elders around the world to facilitate processes of change, design organic solutions, and foster reciprocal and learning relationships.
Orla Carolan
Orla Carolan is Executive Director - ESG Strategy & Compliance at Future Planet since May 2024, working with clients on double materiality assessments and planning for implementing the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD).
Orla has over 20 years’ experience in finance and corporate reporting roles for multinational organisations mainly in financial services. In this time Orla has managed implementation of accounting standards and more recently worked with clients on the implementation of CSRD and the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS).
Orla also has experience in standard setting having worked with the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) on the ESRS development programme, experiencing first-hand how the requirements of the CSRD are being transposed into reporting requirements for organisations.
Orla is a chartered certified accountant and regularly delivers training and Continuing Professional Development (CPD) to the accounting profession. She is also a part time lecturer for Chartered Accountants Ireland on their new CDP Diploma in Sustainability Reporting.
