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Ken Webster
Ken Webster is the Head of Innovation for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation.
Key qualifications: Ken has a background in education on economics and environmental issues. He joined the Foundation in Jan 2010 and helped shape its successful strategy around the circular economy. He is currently Honorary Teaching Fellow at the School of Management of the University of Bradford and was part of the team which created and delivered a distance learning MBA in Enterprise, Innovation and the Circular Economy from Jan 2014.
His latest book is The Circular Economy A Wealth of Flows (May 2015) which relates the connections between systems thinking, business opportunity and the circular economy. Ken Webster lives and works from the Isle of Wight, UK.
Website: www.ellenmacarthurfoundation.org
Twitter: @CircularEconKen
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Conference
"Einstein noted that the 'Theory determines what we observe'. Can the economy be modeled on different assumption, from a different perspective? Of course. The existing 'linear' economy is merely a reflection of an era when resources, energy and credit was cheap and easy. Now the world has changed and so too must our economy. Using insights from systems thinking reveals the possibilities for a new era of prosperity. The enabling conditions, the rules of the game have to be aligned to emphasize rebuilding natural capital, radical resource efficiencies and new business models which garner the advantages of 'circularity' while decoupling from the resource base progressively. The example systems condition change here will be shifting taxes from people (labour) to non renewables (resources)."