Ants, Galileo, and Gandhi Designing the Future of Business through Nature, Genius, and Compassion

Sissel Waage is Director of the research programme at The Natural Step's US office. She has been working on sustainability, conservation and development issues for over ten years and has experience on three continents. Dr Waage has conducted research on a range of topics, including natural resource-based businesses and economies, community-based conservation, collaborative decision-making and consensus-building processes. Prior to joining The Natural Step, she worked with Sustainable Northwest and facilitated the establishment of a new community conservation-based developed organisation in rural north-eastern Oregon. Dr Waage has also served as a programme officer in the East and Southern Africa Programme of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF), where she collaborated with public-sector and private-sector partners to design and manage conservation-based development projects. She has also worked at a forest research station and several other conservation and development organisations. Dr Waage completed her PhD at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, and received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Amherst College, in Massachusetts. She has also studied at the University of Oslo, in Norway, as a Fulbright Scholar, and at the National University of Singapore.