When Business Meets the Doughnut with Dr Erinch Sahan

Published: 28 Nov, 2022

TU Dublin is delighted to welcome Dr Erinch Sahan, the Business and Enterprise lead, Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL) at 17:00pm, on Thursday December 1st.

TU Dublin ConnectED Business Seminar Series is hosting an in-person and online event for our students, faculty, and the public at 5pm on Thursday 1st December. This event is hosted in collaboration with SDG Literacy, a community of practice around sustainability education, as part of the Connected Planet Series, a range of expert sustainability seminars throughout the year.

Erinch, until recently was the Chief Executive of the World Fair Trade Organization and previously spent seven years at Oxfam leading campaign initiatives and founded Oxfam’s Future of Business Initiative. Erinch has also worked at Procter & Gamble as a market strategy manager, established a furniture business and worked for Australia's aid programme. He is a board member of the Social Enterprise World Forum and teaches sustainable value chains at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He holds degrees in finance and law, and an honorary doctorate from Oxford Brookes University.

Erinch will explain the concepts at the heart of Doughnut economics and how to do business in the Doughnut economy. To meet the needs of all people within the means of the living planet, Doughnut Economics poses some big challenges for businesses. The business world will need to embrace bold and ambitious solutions that are both regenerative and distributive. To make this possible, we will need to transform the deep design of business: its purpose and networks, how it is governed and owned and the nature of its relationship with finance. This talk will explore ideas and models for achieving the needed transformations in business to help humanity into the Doughnut.

This is a free and ticketed event - secure your place here.