Riwan is a PhD student at ICTA-UAB. His work lies at the intersection of Regulation Theory and degrowth. For REAL, he leverages the former to understand the sources of the relative resilience of contemporary Japan to economic stagnation. Riwan holds degrees in Political Science and Economics. He worked in the fields of international development, as well as green finance, and collaborates with civil society organisations.

For him, degrowth means radical collective and individual autonomy, in the vein of Cornelius Castoriadis’s thinking – one of the precursors of degrowth. He previously won an EU LIFE grant on leveraging participatory democracy to scale up finance for building renovations.