Kate Raworth

Kate Raworth is a renegade economist focused on exploring the economic mindset needed to address the 21st century’s social and ecological challenges, and is the creator of the concept of "Doughnut Economics."

She is a Senior Visiting Research Associate at Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute, where she teaches on the Masters in Environmental Change and Management. She is also a Senior Associate at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. Her internationally acclaimed idea of "Doughnut Economics" has been widely influential among sustainable development thinkers, progressive businesses, and political activists, and she has presented it to diverse audiences including the UN General Assembly and the Occupy movement. Her book, "Doughnut Economics: seven ways to think like a 21st century economist," published in April 2017, has been translated into multiple languages including Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, and Japanese.

Over the past 20 years, Kate’s career has taken her from working with micro-entrepreneurs in Zanzibar to co-authoring the Human Development Report for UNDP in New York, followed by a decade as a Senior Researcher at Oxfam. She holds a first class BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics, and an MSc in Economics for Development, both from Oxford University. She is a member of the Club of Rome and serves on several advisory boards, including those for the Stockholm School of Economics’ Global Challenges program, the University of Surrey’s Center for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity, and Oxford University’s Environmental Change Institute.

She has written extensively for media including "The Guardian," "The New Statesman," "Newsweek.com," and "Wired.com," and has appeared on various media platforms including BBC Radio 4, The World Service, ABC, NPR, CNN World News, Al-Jazeera, BBC, ITV, and CBC. "The Guardian" has named her as "one of the top ten tweeters on economic transformation."