Ken Webster, Director, International Society for Circular Economy
Ken Webster is a visiting Fellow at Cranfield University and on the supervisory board of the Madaster Foundation in Amsterdam - working on materials passports in the built environment. From 2010 - end 2018 he was Head of Innovation for the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, a circular economy pioneer organization, where he helped shape current notions of a circular economy.
His book The Circular Economy: A Wealth of Flows (2nd Edition 2017) relates the connections between systems thinking, economic and business opportunity and the transition to a circular economy. He makes regular contributions to conferences and seminars around the world. His current interests include; open vs closed circular economy approaches, construction and the built environment, extended producer ownership and materials data management.
His next book The Wonderful Circles of Oz (A Circular Economy Story) - coauthored with Alex Duff explores the notion of extractive vs circulatory economies and how to transition to the latter and will be published by Routledge at the end of 2021.