Guus ter Haar is Director of Impact at Circle Economy. He has over ten years of hands-on experience designing and implementing transformative sustainability strategies, specifically focused on agrifood and fibre. He has worked directly with farmer co-ops, supranational bodies, institutional funders, national governments, and supply chain actors to drive collective and systemic change.

Dr. Martin Calisto Friant is the Global Value Chains Lead at Circle Economy Foundation and lectures on circular economy and society at the University of Amsterdam. His current work focuses on analysing the social and environmental justice implications of circularity transitions through a decolonial and degrowth lens, as well as developing policies to foster inclusive socio-ecological transformations at the local, national and international levels. His publications are openly available on ResearchGate and Google_Scholar.

Dr. Niko Wojtynia is a researcher and teacher at Utrecht University’s Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. He has extensively researched the agri-food transition, producing a PhD dissertation on the causes of path dependency in Dutch agriculture and the potential for regenerative farming to break out of this path dependency. He teaches undergraduate courses on food systems and guides students in transdisciplinary consultancy projects.