Circular, regenerative and peacebuilding: across six continents, our chairs are steering the next economy, from the field to the boardroom.
Global Chair
Dr. h.c. Anja Carron is Global Chair of the G100 Circular Economy Wing, the Women Leaders Alliance in Circular Economy. She leads the appointment and coordination of the Wing's country, regional and advisory chairs, and its He-for-She partners, connecting women who are already building circular solutions in their own markets into one working network.
Her approach is deliberately practical: give local leaders autonomy, keep the structure light, and let the network grow organically, country by country and sector by sector.
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The Circular Economy Wing is one sector of the G100, a global alliance of women leaders. It works alongside the G100's global leadership and its founder.
A peacebuilding economy
Much conflict is bound up with competition over finite resources, land, water, minerals, energy. An economy built on extraction rewards that competition. A circular economy does the opposite: designed around reuse, shared value and regeneration, it eases pressure on scarce resources and rewards cooperation over depletion.
The evidence for women's role is well established. When women take part in peace processes, agreements last significantly longer, yet in 2023 women were still only 9.6% of negotiators. The Wing is a practical response: women leading the circular transition in their own regions, connected across borders into a single alliance.
The heartbeat
This is where the chairs of the Circular Economy Wing present themselves, their role, their country and continent, their circular focus, and a direct link to their LinkedIn profile. Each card is a starting point that chairs can expand with their own words.
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Focus areas are drawn from each chair's own submission to the Wing. LinkedIn links open each chair's public profile; where a profile is not yet on file it is marked accordingly.
Mission & vision
A world in which circular, regenerative practice is the norm and women share equally in shaping it. By 2030 the Wing works towards a global transition to the circular economy, with women leading that change, an inclusive, regenerative and equitable model that can serve as a reference for others.
Global context
The world is moving in the wrong direction. In 2025 the global economy was just 6.9% circular, down from around 9.1% a decade earlier, meaning more than nine-tenths of the roughly 106 billion tonnes of raw materials used each year are never cycled back into use.
Material use has tripled over the past fifty years and could rise a further 60% by 2060. Recycling everything that is currently recyclable would lift circularity from 6.9% to about 25%, and circular models could unlock up to US$4.5 trillion in economic value by 2030.
Sources: Circularity Gap Report 2025 (Circle Economy & Deloitte); Ellen MacArthur Foundation; World Economic Forum.
Women & diversity
Women do much of the world's hands-on resource work, in farming, textiles, water and waste, yet hold few of the senior and technical roles where circular strategy is actually set. The Wing works along that whole line, and the case for doing so is both economic and practical.
The role of women in the circular sectors is not a matter of fairness alone. Diverse leadership makes better, more durable decisions, and closing gender gaps in the economy could add trillions to global output. The Wing exists to move women from participation to leadership across every circular sector.
The case
The linear economy has externalised harm and privatised gain, it was designed for extraction rather than care. A regenerative, circular economy turns that model around: it restores ecosystems, builds local resilience and centres human dignity. Women often understand this first-hand. Long before circularity became a policy term, they were practising it, in food co-operatives, land stewardship, repair and shared care.
The stakes are gendered. On current trends, by 2050 up to 158 million more women and girls could be pushed into extreme poverty by climate change, and women are expected to make up around 80% of those displaced by it. Automation adds pressure, close to 28% of women's jobs worldwide could be disrupted by 2030, while 189 million fewer women than men are online today. Women are being left out of the systems that will shape the economy, which is precisely why their leadership matters.
The Industree Foundation has upskilled over 500,000 women in the natural-fibre sector, building markets worth around US$58 million, regenerative by design.
Women ginger farmers adopting regenerative agriculture have seen biodiversity return and incomes rise by up to 30%.
In conflict-affected regions, women-led circular businesses are creating jobs and helping to rebuild peace.
Drawn from “Women Steering the Next Economy: From Fragmented Systems to Regenerative Global Cooperation”. Figures cited from UN Women, ILO and related sources.
A strategic agenda
A connected network of women-led regenerative initiatives, linking climate innovators, farmers, circular designers and peacebuilders so that what works can scale.
Gender-disaggregated data across climate finance, digital inclusion and recovery, measuring care, resilience and biodiversity. What gets counted gets funded.
Mentorship, investment and procurement that reward cooperation, not only individual success, regenerative webs in place of extractive ladders.
Inclusive design and retraining that guard against automation shocks, moving from job replacement to job reinvention with women at the helm.
Building peace into climate and development plans. Regenerative economies lower conflict risk, and women are the bridge, worth funding as such.
Structure & organic development
Each country wing operates as a semi-autonomous agile cell, able to make local decisions and respond quickly to its own conditions. A central Global Lead keeps the cells aligned; beyond that, they run themselves.
Because growth happens by adding cells rather than expanding a hierarchy, the network scales organically while staying coherent, a lighthouse model other circular organisations can follow.
The sectors
The Wing organises its work around the sectors where circular principles, reuse, recycling, resource efficiency and regenerative design, can be applied most effectively. Those already represented by chairs in the network are marked.
The network
Each point is a country wing, coloured by continent. Solid points are active wings; open rings are countries in the qualified pipeline. Both active wings and pipeline countries are shown by default; use the toggle to view active wings only. The gold lines link the continents into one alliance, no individual names are shown here.
Why join
Membership of the Global Circular Economy Wing connects you to a worldwide community and to practical support for circular and regenerative work.
Connect with the G100 Circular Economy Wing and the community of 100 global wings and their leaders.
Become part of a diverse and vibrant network of circular-economy actors from the Global North and South, including company leaders, NGOs, academia and public institutions.
A safe space for in-depth exchange and critical discussion of circular and regenerative solutions and trends. Join and contribute to our meetings, webinars, matchmaking sessions and leadership trainings.
Use the G100 Circular Economy Wing as a platform for collective action, piloting pragmatic and impactful solutions that advance the circular economy worldwide.
Reach an international audience by sharing your news on the LinkedIn channel and website, or as a speaker in the online G100 Circular Economy global sessions.
Take part in the G100's international events such as the Women Economic Forum (WEF), and benefit from SHEconomy for your business.
In the world
From country wings to global stages, the network is active on the ground and represented at high-profile international forums.
A closer look at chairs shaping the circular economy in their countries.
Strategic consultant in circular economy and sustainability and a former career diplomat with more than twenty years' experience across Europe, Asia, Latin America and North Africa. She holds a PhD in Applied Economics (University of Valencia), a Master's in Sustainable Development and a specialisation in International Economic Negotiations. She mentors entrepreneurs in acceleration programmes in Europe and Latin America, teaches at business schools and speaks internationally, sits on the Scientific Committee of the Southeast Asia–Europe Joint Funding Programme for circular-economy innovation, and has advised European circular-bioeconomy projects.
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Drives sustainable agriculture and the circular economy in Africa as an agribusiness policy advisor, consultant and incubator manager, and is a food-security advocate and IVLP alumna. She represents Côte d'Ivoire in the G100 Circular Economy Wing and works with partners including AGRA, the FAO and the African Union.
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Dr. Nayan Mitra is an international authority on sustainability, CSR and corporate governance. She founded Sustainable Advancements (OPC) Private Limited, a company led by women that advances the Sustainable Development Goals through advocacy, research and implementation. She is founding President of the WICCI Sustainable Businesses Council and a mentor at the Aspire For Her Foundation. As series editor of Springer's Responsible Business and Sustainable Management, and editor of several volumes on CSR in India and rising economies, she has published more than forty academic works. She advises institutions such as the Indian Institute of Corporate Affairs and NITI Aayog, and has been recognised among India's most impactful CSR leaders.
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Ivanka Milenković is the founder of Ekofungi and co-founder of Ekofungi Coop, with two decades of global experience in cultivating mushrooms on waste materials. Ekofungi takes a fully circular approach: cellulose waste from local farms becomes compost for edible mushrooms, and the spent compost returns to farmers as natural fertiliser. In 2018 the OECD recognised it as the most prominent circular-economy enterprise in the Western Balkans and Turkey. An expert in mushroom genetics, she shares the model openly through the Ekofungi School she founded in 2009, and won Serbia's Success Flower award for women's entrepreneurship in 2014.
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To be considered as a chair, adviser or He-for-She partner of the Circular Economy Wing, please share your details. Requests are sent to the G100 office and reviewed by the Global Chair.