Never-ending economic growth is putting increasing pressure on our societies and planet.
A systems thinking approach reveals the urgent need to realign governance structures and financial incentives to prevent businesses from externalizing costs that cause environmental degradation and social inequality.
Non-extractive business and non-extractive finance offer a blueprint for building a business and finance ecosystem using practical tools such as Steward Ownership and strong asset locks.
In this session, Melanie challenges the current orthodoxy and show how rethinking governance, entity forms, fee structures, procurement, compliance, culture, and operations can lay the foundation for a truly just and sustainable economy.
Melanie Rieback
CEO of Radically Open Security
Dr Melanie Rieback is CEO of Radically Open Security, the company she founded that donates 90% of profit to charity.
She designed and teaches the Post Growth Entrepreneurship’ class at the University of Amsterdam, is a Cybersecurity lecturer at Singularity University, and former Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam.
She founded Non-Extractive Capital in 2025 to address the challenge of encouraging entrepreneurs to pursue alternative business models.