Council Members

Oriol López Plana

Miceli.Social

Filipa Pimentel

Transition Network International

Filipa is a Portuguese forest scientist by training. In 2000, she went to Brussels to join an internship at the European Commission and worked in several EU Institutions and organisations related to sustainable development as a political adviser. After 10 years of work related to EU policy, she quit her job to dedicate herself fully to the Transition Movement – she is part of it, at several levels – local, national and international since then.
Filipa has been a Transition Network International team member since 2011. From the start, her work has been, mainly, to explore with people all over the world how to develop the social infrastructure, collaborative culture and new forms of leadership capable of supporting a distributed movement for social change.
She is currently living in Brussels but with a big piece of her heart in Portugal – she is the initiator of an emergent movement of movements for Regeneration in Portugal and co-founder and leader of the organisation supporting that network – Associação Micélio.

She is an accredited Sociocracy for All and Prosocial World facilitator and she was trained by International Futures Forum (Competence in Complexity).

Ruth Marie Kondrup

Permaculture Denmark

Ruth Marie is passionate about creating regenerative communities where people, nature, and local action can thrive together. Her work combines practical experience in permaculture with community building, participatory governance, and adult education.

As Chair of Permakultur Danmark, she works to strengthen networks, support local initiatives, and develop learning opportunities that enable people to take meaningful action for ecological and social regeneration. She is part of the Nordic Baltic Permaculture Circle and leads the development of the Nordic Seed Alliance, connecting permaculture organisations, seed savers, and agroecological actors across the region to safeguard the right to save, share, and cultivate diverse seeds.

At her demonstration site, Kastanjely in Denmark, Ruth Marie explores regenerative approaches to food production, water management, biodiversity, and community learning. She is particularly interested in how local initiatives can inspire wider systems change through knowledge exchange, international cooperation, and peer-to-peer learning — believing that lasting change happens when practical solutions are combined with collaboration, shared leadership, and strong relationships.

Magali Paulus

CELL Luxembourg

Jason Nardi

RIPESS Europe

Jason is a passionate social and environmental justice activist with a longstanding commitment that began in childhood with animal rights advocacy and a transition to vegetarianism at age 8. A Florentine with a dual citizenship (US and Italy) – and a parent of two wonderful teenagers – he is currently engaged in various local, national, and international initiatives, gaining and sharing insights through diverse responsibilities.

With a decade of experience at the Ethical Finance Foundation (part of Banca Etica in Italy), involvement in local development NGOs and coordination of Social Watch in Italy, Jason has been promoting solidarity economy and finance (through local practices, training, peer-learning).

As the general delegate of RIPESS Europe and former coordinator of RIPESS, intercontinental network fostering social solidarity economy, he’s been working on advocacy at the UN (COP, FAO, ILO, UNSSETF, etc.) and convergences of social movements in the International Council of the World Social Forum and the WSF of Transformative Economies (and now in the European Common Space for Alternatives).

Additionally, as co-president of RIES (Italian Solidarity Economy Network) and co-founder of Solidarius Italia, he focuses on advancing research and development of solidarity economy circuits. His academic background in communication and media fuels my rights advocacy and community initiatives in Florence, where he lives and supports CSA projects, mutualism initiatives, and community forums, all while enjoying playing the clarinet in a street band and teaching acroyoga.

Leonor Afonso

Global Ecovillage Network – Europe

Leonor is a psychologist, life coach and extensive experience in non-formal education and community work; project coordinator for international projects in the fields of digital youth work and socio-digital innovation, as well as technological innovation dedicated to ecological transition, within our Living Lab. She’s bringing her expertise in complexity management and social innovation, the know-how of GEN culture. With direct access to Smala board of international experts in deep innovation (co-founders of free software movement, co-founder of Wikipedia, the foundation of Open Source Ecology …) to empower ECOLISE. Her main motivation is to be part of the change in ECOLISE.