CEO

Louise Kjellerup Roper

Louise is a leader in regenerative and transformative business, people, and education. She leads the team and is responsible for Volans’ mission, programmes and strategy, and ensuring Volans has the biggest positive impact possible, through what we do and who we work with.

Since leaving her native Denmark to study at the University of Oxford, Louise has worked at the frontier of innovation, starting her career in the tech industry before successfully launching, running and advising cradle-to-cradle and circular economy brands across Europe.

Passionate about empowering the next generation of regenerators, Louise is a mentor through Aspire, Chair of the University of Exeter Business School’s Board of International Advisors and lectures at Cranfield University’s Centre for Design, Innovation and Sustainability. She is also on the Advisory board of the Global CO2 Initiative, the Sustainable Finance Centre, The UKRI Interdisciplinary Centre for Circular Chemical Economy and The Good Growth Company.

“The willingness and ability to imagine a different future is the most important quality we need to nourish in leaders today.”