One Earth
Executive Director
Dr Vanessa Timmer is the Executive Director of One Earth, a Vancouver, Canada-based environmental “think–and–do–tank”, which is creating and imagining sustainable ways of living in cities and around the world. One Earth collaborates with partners to transform how people live their lives – what they need, what they consume and produce, and what they aspire to – enabling everyone to enjoy a good quality of life within the limits of our planet’s resources.
Vanessa is also a Senior Research Fellow at Utrecht University with Pathways to Sustainability, the Urban Futures Studio, and the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. She holds a doctorate and has studied at Queen’s University, Oxford, UBC and Harvard. Vanessa sits on the Multi-stakeholder Advisory Committee for the United Nations 10YFP Sustainable Lifestyles Programme. In Canada, she is a board member of the National Zero Waste Council and of the Vancouver Foundation Partnership Committee. She received the 2018 YWCA Women of Distinction Award in Environmental Sustainability.
Tuesday 4 June at 14.00-15.30: Circularity in our day-to-day lives