Chris Oestereich

Chris Oestereich is the founder of the Wicked Problems Collaborative, an independent press that focuses on humanity's biggest challenges, and a co-founder of the Circular Design Lab, a citizen-driven project focused on prototyping and delivering positive change to systems challenges. He is a lecturer and former faculty member at Thammasat University's School of Global Studies, and he formerly led zero waste programs for Albertsons and SuperValu, a nation-wide network of US grocery chains. Chris...See more

Chris Oestereich is the founder of the Wicked Problems Collaborative, an independent press that focuses on humanity's biggest challenges, and a co-founder of the Circular Design Lab, a citizen-driven project focused on prototyping and delivering positive change to systems challenges. He is a lecturer and former faculty member at Thammasat University's School of Global Studies, and he formerly led zero waste programs for Albertsons and SuperValu, a nation-wide network of US grocery chains. Chris also supports organizations in their shift to the circular economy through his firm, Linear to Circular, and he is currently developing Morph Bags, a circular economy brand that's working directly with informal workers and refugees to develop socially valuable products from waste materials. See less