Kirsten Dunlop

Chief Executive Officer, Climate KIC

Dr. Kirsten Dunlop is Chief Executive Officer at Climate KIC, Europe’s leading climate innovation agency. Climate KIC has over 16 years of expertise in driving systemic change across 70 countries globally with an approach that goes beyond traditional solutions, addressing climate challenges holistically with a focus on long-term transformation. This includes venture support programs, impact-driven investment, innovation ecosystems, education and learning in systems innovation and place-based Deep Demonstrations. Kirsten brings to her role a deep conviction in our capacity to learn and evolve into a climate-resilient society, and her over 35 years of experience catalyzing systemic transformations in a career spanning academia, consulting, banking, and the insurance industry, across three continents. Kirsten serves on various Advisory Boards including the EAT Advisory Board, Daughters for Earth, the Global Citizens’ Assembly and the High-level External Advisory Panel for the OECD Horizontal Project on Climate and Economic Resilience. She is a member of the Club of Rome, of Women Transforming Global Security, an Advisor to the Systemic Investing Initiative and a Director of Responsible.us.

Speaking at

Parallel Lab 4 Fueling Futures: Empowering Youth via Education and Food System

4月18日, 下午2:30 - 下午4:00
SANGHA Movement Center

At a time when the future feels increasingly uncertain, the question is no longer how we prepare the next generation for existing systems, but how we enable them to reimagine and regenerate the systems themselves. This lab explores the intersection of youth education, food systems, and human wellbeing not as separate domains, but as deeply interconnected foundations of a life-centred economy. If education shapes how we see the world, food systems shape how we relate to nature, and well-being shapes how we show up as human beings, then the future we are building depends on how these three evolve together. This session invites participants to move beyond fragmented interventions and ask: How do we cultivate a generation that can think in systems, act with responsibility, and build futures where both people and planet can flourish?

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Forum 3 | Intentional Wisdom: Systemic Transformation of Future Education

4月19日, 上午10:00 - 上午11:30
Town Hall

As traditional education and public health systems remain constrained by industrial-age models of standardisation—treating learning as a unidirectional transfer of facts and care as mere reactive intervention—these fragmented approaches struggle to address the profound shifts of the AI era and global demographic transitions. In response, there is an urgent need to embrace the Eastern epistemology of Gewu Zhizhi (Investigating Things to Extend Knowledge), shifting the logic of social infrastructure from functional maintenance toward systemic awakening. This session explores a profound transformation centred on “Holistic Prosperity”. We examine how education can return to its essence—moving beyond simple knowledge acquisition to the cultivation of mind, character, and systemic thinking. Simultaneously, we explore how well-being systems can evolve from passive cost burdens into lifelong fountains of vitality. As a frontline laboratory for digital integration and demographic change, China is demonstrating a modern transformation rooted in the classical ideals of “Self-cultivation, Family Harmony, State Governance, and Universal Peace”. We shall observe how digital innovation, inclusive institutions, and social capital converge to establish the comprehensive development of the individual as the very foundation of future civilisational resilience.

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