Co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab (DEAL), DEAL’s Strategic Lead. Her work focuses on enabling the concepts of Doughnut Economics to be turned into transformative practice, while ensuring they spread wide and with integrity. Carlota studied Business and Economics at Carlos III University in Madrid and grass-roots business transformation and narratives from the new economies, at Schumacher College. Prior to co-founding DEAL with Kate Raworth, Carlota worked for a decade in the financial sector in Spain and the UK and was the co-director of Economy for the Common Good in the UK – an international social movement promoting new economics.