Jennifer Hinton is a researcher and activist in the field of sustainable economy. Her work focuses on how societies relate to profit and how this relationship affects global sustainability challenges. Her doctoral thesis puts forth relationship-to-profit theory, which explains how for-profit business structures systemically drive unsustainable dynamics, such as overconsumption, environmental degradation, and inequality; as well as why not-for-profit types business and markets are more compatible with sustainability. She began developing this theory with the Post Growth Institute in the book How on Earth, which outlines a conceptual model of a not-for-profit market economy.

Jennifer holds a bachelor’s degree in International Affairs from the University of Colorado, a master’s degree in Sustainability Science from Lund University, a PhD in Sustainability Science from Stockholm University, and a PhD in Economics from Université Clermont Auvergne. As an activist, she collaborates with businesses and civil society organizations to transform the economy so that it can work for everyone within the ecological limits of the planet.