Oriol Lopez is an environmentalist, oceanographer, social entrepreneur working on regenerative development, bioregional governance and community-led transformation. He founded CHAPTER#2 in 2017 to support migrant and refugee inclusion through entrepreneurship, participation and rural hosting processes, and has worked with public institutions, universities and rural networks in Catalonia on social innovation, community health and local development.

He is a founding member of Miceli Rural Coop, a second-degree cooperative supporting regenerative development in rural Catalonia, and of De Bat a Bat, an initiative focused on community health and territorial wellbeing. His current work focuses on building bioregional infrastructures that strengthen territorial capacities, connect place-sourced organisations and develop new pathways for regenerative finance, territorial intelligence systems and cooperative investment models for community-led regeneration. He is a Regenesis Institute faculty in Catalonia.