About
Kaj (pronounced Kai) is the CEO of Regen Melbourne, an engine for ambitious collaboration, in service of Melbourne. Powered by an alliance of more than 180 organisations, Regen Melbourne is the catalyst and host of a portfolio of bold projects that are moving Melbourne towards a regenerative future.
Kaj is also the Director of the Small Giants Academy Action Labs, where he leads the incubation and development of new initiatives. This has included the creation of Regen Melbourne, launching B Corporation in our region, bringing the School of Life to Australia and co-creating the Mastery of Business and Empathy and Impact Safari. He is a guide on a number of the SGA programs including Impact Safari Scandinavia: the Future of Cities.
A Civil Engineer by training, Kaj also holds a Masters of Economic History from Lund University.
Recent Essays, Articles & Interviews
Systemic Investing: Moving Money in Service of Life (Small Giants Academy)
Dancing Across Horizons (originally published in Dumbo Feather)
In Conversation with Liz Gillies (Menzies Foundation)
Place-based approaches for sustainable cities (Under One Blue Roof)
After the Rubble: Mobilising a City (Dumbo Feather)
Regen Melbourne is imagining a regenerative future for our urban centres (Work for Climate)
How to regenerate Melbourne with doughnut economics and an environmental ceiling (Fifth Estate)
Kaj Löfgren on Regen Melbourne (Small Giants Academy)
For a fairer greener Melbourne, take a bite from the doughnut (The Age)
Building back Melbourne, but not as you know it (Pro Bono Australia)
Kate Raworth is a Renegade Economist (Dumbo Feather)
Designing a New Normal (Small Giants Academy)
The Future Now Project vision (Future Now)
New degree puts empathy into business (Pro Bono Australia)
Operating Within the Bounds of our Ecology (Small Giants Academy)
Trust, Democracy and the Politics of Belonging (Small Giants Academy)
A Conversation with Tim Leberecht (Small Giants Academy)
The Saving of AAP Newswire (Small Giants Academy)
A Short History of the Next Economy (Small Giants Academy)
Carbon Leakage and Creative Accounting (Arena Magazine)
In the zone with Michael Short (The Age & SMH)