Dr Lela Mélon
A former Marie Curie Research Fellow at the Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona, and the 2021 Emerging Sustainability Leader Awardee (by World Sustainability Foundation), has a legal and economics background. Currently the Executive Director of the Planetary Wellbeing Institutional Framework at the Pompeu Fabra University and the academic director and a professor of the postgraduate programme Sustainability Transition Management and Climate Emergency at ESCI-UPF, she is specialized in EU law, with the main focus on corporate conduct and sustainability, on which she published the book Shareholder Primacy and Global Business (Routledge 2018). She is currently researching policy coherence for sustainability at the EU level, and providing related consulting services, focusing on corporate law policies as well as the challenges of policy and legislative barriers in the existing EU business law framework for sustainable corporate conduct and sustainable outcomes. Besides being active in the academic field, she created and implemented a three-step systemic approach towards sustainability, which entailed the insertion of separate sustainable corporate law course in academic curricula and a simultaneous sustainable revision of the existing and well-established academic curricula in economics and law. Additionally to the abovementioned, Dr Lela Mélon is a lecturer at the Masters on Planetary Health (carried out jointly by the UPF, UOC and IS Global) in the course of Global and multilevel governance in planetary health; a lecturer at ESSEC Paris in the course Sustainable Finance and Law in Sustainability Management; a lecturer at CEI Barcelona in the course Companies as actors in Sustainable Development; and a lecturer at UPF Masters in Global and European Law in the course Sustainable Business Law, which she developed in the framework of her Marie Curie funded SCOM project.
Ladeja Godina Košir, M.Sc.
Is an internationally renowned circular economy expert, speaker, and moderator, Founder & CEO of Circular Change, Co-Chair of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform (ECESP) and co-leader of the Research Group Circular Economy Systems at The Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science in Vienna. Ladeja is the co-author of the Roadmap towards the Circular Economy in Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro and Chile. She was the finalist of The Circular Leadership Award 2018 (Davos WEF) and is featured as #EUwomen4future by EU Commission.
She bridges the bioeconomy and the circular economy; one of the EU projects to which she contributes is Effective (Horizon 2020 & BBI JU), a multi-company collaboration to produce more sustainable, bio-based fibres and plastics. She chaired the expert group for the BIOEAST Foresight Exercise for Bioeconomy 2050. She also contributes to the Erasmus+ IMPACT project for value-based innovation and Horizon 2020 PSLifestyle project – co-creating a Positive and Sustainable Lifestyle Tool with and for European Citizens. Ladeja works with governments, city authorities, companies, NGOs, media and universities, empowering true collaboration to enable circular change.
