Ben Hinder is a doctoral researcher at UNIL. He is interested in social transformation, and in creating horizontal organisations which serve as the bedrock for a new political and social system. Within REAL, his PhD focuses on the systems of provision and methods to create economic democracy required to give people agency in the transformation to a sustainable economy.

Ben holds a BSc in Ecology and Environmental Management from Nottingham-Trent University, and an MSc in Ecological Economics from the University of Edinburgh. To him, degrowth means a new way of living in which communities work together to figure out how to live free and fulfilling lives within planetary boundaries.