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Kirsi joined the team as a PhD student in collaboration with LUT, Finland. Her research will look at regenerative strategies and business models.

Kirsi Salonen joined the Circular X team as a PhD student in collaboration with LUT, Finland. Her thesis will examine regenerative strategies and business models and contribute to the current research field of sustainable business strategies, business models, and ecosystems. She will be studying how companies can develop strategies that allow the regeneration of environmental and social systems. In addition to the key characteristics of regenerative business strategies/business models her research will look at the institutional drivers and barriers for regenerative business as well as building regenerative supply chains. Her research will focus on linkages between regenerative business and human rights, and the role of stakeholders/rightsholders in regenerative business models or ecosystems that support/enable them. 

Welcome Kirsi!