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id: people/kate-raworth
about:
  label: Kate Raworth
  depiction: people/kate-raworth.jpg
  depiction_credit: 'Arbeid & Milieu, Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 2.0.'
  description: >-
    English economist who created the Doughnut of social and planetary
    boundaries and co-founded Doughnut Economics Action Lab.
  tags:
    - doughnut economics
    - planetary boundaries
    - economics
person:
  affiliation: 'Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford'
  role: economist
  homepage: 'https://www.kateraworth.com/'
provenance:
  origin: agent
  sources:
    - title: About (Kate Raworth)
      url: 'https://www.kateraworth.com/about/'
    - title: Kate Raworth (Wikipedia)
      url: 'https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kate_Raworth'
  created: '2026-11-02'
  reviewed: '2026-11-02'
  reviewed_by: 'Claude, from the sources listed'
  status: draft
---
Kate Raworth, born 13 December 1970, is an English economist.[^2] She is the creator of the Doughnut of social and planetary boundaries and a co-founder of Doughnut Economics Action Lab.[^1] She teaches at Oxford University's Environmental Change Institute and is Professor of Practice at Amsterdam University of Applied Sciences.[^1] Both her degrees are from Oxford: a BA in Politics, Philosophy and Economics and an MSc in Economics for Development.[^1]

She worked with micro-entrepreneurs in Zanzibar, was a co-author of the UN Development Programme's Human Development Report from 1997 to 2001, and spent about a decade as a senior researcher at Oxfam.[^1,2] She first set out the Doughnut in a 2012 paper, A Safe and Just Space for Humanity, and developed it in her 2017 book Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist.[^2] The Doughnut sets an inner ring of essential human needs, such as food and education, against an outer ring of planetary boundaries.[^2] In Amsterdam she advises the Doughnut Hub, where students and researchers work with local stakeholders on her principles.[^2]

She is named as a mentor or inspiration by [LocalScale](/organizations/localscale/).