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Presentation Type
Presentation
Location
Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903
Event Website
https://designscience.risd.edu
Start Date
September 2025
End Date
September 2025
Description
Michael Ben-Eli is founder of The Sustainability Laboratory, established to develop and demonstrate groundbreaking approaches to sustainability practices, expanding prospects and producing positive, life affirming impacts on people and ecosystems in all parts of the world.
Prior to launching The Lab, Michael pioneered applications of System Thinking and Cybernetics in management and organization. Over the years, he worked on synthesizing strategy issues in many parts of the world and in diverse institutional settings, ranging from small high technology firms to multinational enterprises, manufacturing companies, financial institutions, health care and educational organizations, government agencies, NGOs, and international multilateral organizations including the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Program, the Global Environment Facility, and others.
In recent years, he has focused his work primarily on issues related to sustainability and sustainable development and has been working to help inspire leaders in business, government, community, and youth accelerate a peaceful transition to a sustainable future. Michael is the author of the widely acclaimed five core sustainability principles. He has been the driving force behind developing The Lab’s current flagship project, Project Wadi Attir, and is leading development of The Lab as a world-wide network of advanced research, development, and education centers, based at different ecological zones.
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Michael Ben-Eli, Founder, The Sustainability Lab
Design Science 2025 | Geometry of Uncertainty, Presentation: Michael Ben-Eli
Metcalf Auditorium, Chace Center, 20 North Main Street, Providence RI 02903
Michael Ben-Eli is founder of The Sustainability Laboratory, established to develop and demonstrate groundbreaking approaches to sustainability practices, expanding prospects and producing positive, life affirming impacts on people and ecosystems in all parts of the world.
Prior to launching The Lab, Michael pioneered applications of System Thinking and Cybernetics in management and organization. Over the years, he worked on synthesizing strategy issues in many parts of the world and in diverse institutional settings, ranging from small high technology firms to multinational enterprises, manufacturing companies, financial institutions, health care and educational organizations, government agencies, NGOs, and international multilateral organizations including the World Bank, the United Nations Environment Program, the Global Environment Facility, and others.
In recent years, he has focused his work primarily on issues related to sustainability and sustainable development and has been working to help inspire leaders in business, government, community, and youth accelerate a peaceful transition to a sustainable future. Michael is the author of the widely acclaimed five core sustainability principles. He has been the driving force behind developing The Lab’s current flagship project, Project Wadi Attir, and is leading development of The Lab as a world-wide network of advanced research, development, and education centers, based at different ecological zones.
https://digitalcommons.risd.edu/naturelab_designscience/designscience2025/designscience2025symposium/7