Dr Dagny Tucker

Co-Founder at Perpetual

Speaker

Dr. Tucker is a designer, doer and speaker who actualizes sustainability through systems thinking and design. A pioneer in reusable packaging system design and implementation she shares her technical and operational knowledge to support initiatives globally to scale reuse. Through innovation, strategy & design Dagny's ventures push the boundaries of how we think about everyday decisions and build the capacity in others to have real impact on today’s pressing issues.

Words can be hollow: sustainability, fair trade, conflict resolution- but Dagny strives to put the fat meaning back onto the hackneyed bones of jargon. Sustaining means not only lasting, but good, solid solutions to complicated issues. Fair trade means truly happy families, laughter, food from clean soil on both sides of the trade lines. Conflict resolution doesn't mean buried in the sand or chilly relations, it means break through, break down, restart from the seeds of creation, it means sleep well at night knowing the children are safe.

Her appointment with academic ,non-profit, business, and government players has traversed five continents and navigates complexity to forge deeper understanding and actionable interventions for increased sustainability and positive peace. With a foundation in international peace, conflict & development, her work bolsters others and addresses “wicked problems” through novel ventures, engaging and sound frameworks, interventions, workshops, popular education pieces and media such as The Refill and Reuse Systems Handbook for which she was a lead author.

She is the co founder at Perpetual, founded Vessel, taught at Parsons The New School for Design, was formerly the Managing Director of Strategic Global Affairs for New Hope Natural Media and is co-founder of Thread Count Creative. She is a Tishman Scholarship recipient for “outstanding achievement in sustainability,” and holds a Ph.D. in International Peace, Conflict and Development from Universitat Jaume I in Spain.

Dagny's diverse background brings a unique and integral vision to all her projects.