Ashima Sukhdev leads the Governments & Cities Programme at the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, engaging and supporting national, regional, and city governments to address these challenges, helping them to transition to a circular economy. Currently, she’s working on developing circular economy implementation projects between city governments and the private sector, spinning up collaborations with city-network organizations, and developing research and tools that are useful for city governments interested in the circular economy.

Ashima’s previous work at the Foundation has spanned across the Business and Insights & Analysis teams and includes a secondment to the World Economic Forum to support the development of their circular economy initiative.