Adina-Iuliana Deacu
Klaus Töpfer Sustainability Fellow
Adina is a social entrepreneur, systems thinker, and environmental psychology researcher working at the intersection of environmental psychology, systems change, and regenerative economics. She is dedicated to redefining the role of business in society and turning equal access to high quality educational opportunities into a universal human right, instead of a privilege. Adina is also the founder of Tianmei World Academy, a translocal decentralized "network of classrooms" cross-cultural and cross-disciplinary educational platform experimenting with environments and tools that cultivate agency, relational intelligence, and regenerative leadership. Her work integrates systems thinking, design research, and cross-cultural knowledge traditions to explore how inner transformation and institutional redesign can support sustainability transitions. Her research as a Klaus Töpfer Sustainability Fellow explored how redefining business as a social problem-solving institution can contribute to addressing the polycrisis.
Blog Posts
- Do we really need more knowledge? Rethinking academia’s quest in the age of polycrisis
- Redefining business for justice-driven and human-centred urban futures
- When problems become profitable: Why solving social issues matters more than scaling “solutions”
- Why Self-Confidence Might Be Our Most Underrated Climate Strategy
- Why Intention Matters More Than the System: Rethinking Politics, Prosperity, and What We Can Learn from One Another
- From Sustainable Development Goals to Sustainable Living Goals: What Are We Really Sustaining?
- Climate Change as a Symptom of Collective Trauma: Why Sustainability Requires Healing, More Than Just New Policies
- International Men’s Day at RIFS: What we heard, what we missed, and what gender equity might be asking of us
- Gender Equality Seen Through the Lens of Environmental Psychology
- RESTART: How Architects and Businesses Can Redefine Our Future Together
- Reflections from ChangeNOW: Hope, Greenwashing(?) and Unseen Wounds
- developing business models that balance financial sustainability with social value