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Ann-Charlotte Mellquist

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Tel
+46 70 265 65 60
Email
ann‑charlotte.mellquist@ri.se
Location
Stockholm

I am a director and researcher at RISE, unit Sustainability Analytics. I hold an MBA in finance and an MBA in Innovation Eneterprise and Circular Economy. As a researcher and expert in Circular Economy, Circular Business Models and Circular Financing, I have an ambition to be part of and drive the transition to a more sustainable future. As a Senior Researcher and Project Manager at RISE I have the opportunity to work daily together with industry partners to reach this goal.
I share my work time between management, research and project management tasks. In my work I always combine the need for detailed understanding and analysis with a systems perspective. I am convinced that the future will require more knowledge and understanding of complex adaptive systems in different areas cross sectors and society.
I have 15+ years’ work experience from consultancy and project management roles from ICT implementation and transition projects in many different industry sectors. I have 10 years’ experience in financial management, financial analysis, planning and business intelligence as financial and business controller.

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Setting Targets for the Circular Economy

Despite extensive and growing environmental legislation under the vision of a circular economy in Europe, Europe's resource use and its subsequent negative environmental effects are not decreasing. In this project, we investigate …
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Consumer motivation for prolonging the lifespan of clothes

Reducing the environmental impacts of textile production requires prolonging the useful life of clothes. Repairing and mending clothes used to be common societal practices, now wiped out to a great extent by mass production. The p…
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Policy for a Redesigned Economy

Despite having an understanding that the linear economy is devastating for our environment, the overwhelming majority of Swedish businesses still operate according to linear principles, where growth and profitability take preceden…
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Flood-resilient communities by 2035

Climate change increases the risk of flooding, which demands collaboration between property owners, municipalities, and other stakeholders. Through a systems and futures analysis, the project develops business models, financing, a…
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Water Wise Societies

Water Wise Societies, one of five programs within the innovation initiative Impact Innovation, work for transition towards sustainable water for all. Impact Innovation is funded by Vinnova, Formas and the Swedish Energy Agency, th…
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Digital garment repair platform (CIRCLEWEAR)

Garment repair increases the useful life of clothing and reduces the quantity of new materials required for textile production. CIRCLEWEAR intends to develop a scalable digital clothing repair platform, informed by studies into co…
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SågFlex - Flexible electricity use in sawmills

SågFlex provides sawmills and suppliers with knowledge about how they can contribute to a flexible electricity grid. The project will show how sawmills can use batteries and demand flexibility to contribute to balancing the electr…
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The doughnut model in municipal sustainability work

Today it is clear that linear economic thinking is not able to bring us closer to an energy and climate system that is sustainable for all. In this project, Kalix, Tomelilla and Vadstena are trying to integrate so-called monk econ…
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Favorite Wardrobe

In the Favorite Wardrobe project we wanted to investigate how people use and don't use the garments in their wardrobe.
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Chemical Safety to Support Circular Economy (CHESS)

Sweden’s goal is to become climate-neutral by 2045. This requires a transformation of the whole society, and challenges must be tackled urgently. The transition from a linear to a circular economy (CE) carries such a transformatio…
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Measuring circular business models

How do we measure the cost effectiveness of circular economy? Does higher circular economy performance increase demand? How do we increase the spread of circular business models in society (via measurement)? These are the themes f…
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Roundtables for Circular Economy

With the contemporary sustainability challenges the world is facing, it is encouraging that circular economy is on the uprising and generates new type of products, services and business models. But with it arises also questions of…
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AI driven financial risk assessment for circular business models

When companies transition to circular business models (especially functional sales models), risk assessments of business cases and payback times, as well as new types of collateral and residual value, have been identified as impor…
Story

How companies can build business models that contribute to sustainable consumption

By the end of the century, it is estimated that we will share the Earth's finite resources with 11 billion people. This means that current approaches to sustainability and reduced consumption are not enough. "We need to measu…
Story

How is financial risk assessed in a circular business model?

When companies transition to circular business models, it creates challenges for financiers, who are accustomed to assessing traditional business models. With the help of AI, RISE is finding ways that the business models of banks …
Story

Innovation shows the way to the 1.5-degree target

The business community has drawn up roadmaps for a fossil fuel-free future, but what should actually be done in practical terms to achieve the 1.5 degree target? To help the industry move from theory to practice, RISE has conducte…
Expertise

Recycling and circularity of batteries

Recycling and circularity are natural steps when society moves towards a circular economy. In a circular economy, products get new life after their first use. The products can either be used in a new application, or materials can …
Expertise

Circularity indicators

Those that commit to circular transition should measure more. What is measured is managed. Plus, it will tell you if your efforts made any real difference.
Expertise

Circular Business Models

By basing business models and value propositions on a circular logic, companies can reduce their environmental impact while strengthening their business. Instead of producing material products with primary resources and offering t…
Expertise

Circular financing

Circular financing is a new and exciting research area that covers how financing, financial markets and financial actors are affected by a transition from a linear to a circular economy in theory and practice, at all lev…