Beyond Growth

Erinch is the business and enterprise lead at Doughnut Economics Action Lab. His work focuses on transforming the deep design of businesses to enable them to pursue regenerative and distributive strategies. Working with over 300 businesses, he created the Doughnut Design for Business tool, which enables businesses to engage with Doughnut Economics. Erinch has a background in leadership across business, NGOs and government. He was the chief executive of the World Fair Trade Organization, and spent 7 years at Oxfam leading campaign and programme work, including the Behind the Brands campaign and scorecard. Erinch has also worked at Procter & Gamble, the Australian government and established a furniture business. Erinch is a board member of the Social Enterprise World Forum, a fellow at the Post Growth Institute and a senior associate at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership. He holds degrees in finance and law and an honorary doctorate from Oxford Brookes University.

Vincent Liegey, co-author of Exploring Degrowth: a Critical Guide (Pluto Press, 2020), is an engineer, interdisciplinary researcher and activist. He is the coordinator of Cargonomia, Degrowth research and experimentation cooperative in Budapest. One of the spokesperson of the French Degrowth movement, he is also one of the coordinators of the support group for the international Degrowth conference. Vincent has also co-authored Sobriété (La Vraie) and Décroissance, Fake or Not (Tana Editions, 2023 and 2021), and Un Projet de Décroissance (Editions Utopia, 2013).

Mr. Ryosuke Mizouchi has been overseeing the sustainability of Kirin Group since 2017. He joined Kirin in 1982 with experience in marketing insight and overseas business. Currently, he is also a member of The Nourinchukin Bank Sustainability Advisory Board, and a member of the Japanese National Commission for UNESCO. He has a MBA from The MIT Sloan School of Management and a BA in Economics from Hitotsubashi University.

Liu Yue holds multiple key roles at OMRON, including Senior General Manager, Chief of the Sustainability Office, and Chairman of the Sustainability Promotion Committee. Her primary responsibility is to advance sustainability within the Omron Group, with a particular focus on environmental and human rights initiatives across the value chain. Since 2021, she has been dedicated to crafting sustainability policies as part of OMRON’s long-term vision for 2030, titled Sharping the Future 2030, and integrating sustainability into the medium-term management plan to reshape business operations.

In addition to her roles at OMRON, Liu Yue is actively involved in various external initiatives and committees, including:

• Membership in Nippon Keidanren’s ESG Information Disclosure International Strategy Task Force, as well as the Corporate Behavior/SDGs Committee.
• Participation as a member in the Council for the Improvement of Corporate Citizenship (CBCC).
• Involvement in the GCNJ/DEI subcommittee.