Lauren Phipps

Vice President & Senior Analyst, Circular Economy
GreenBiz Group

Lauren Phipps works to accelerate the transition from a linear to a circular economy. She is the Vice President and Senior Analyst on the circular economy at GreenBiz Group, where she leads the company’s circularity strategy, programs, and partnerships. Lauren’s team connects stakeholders and solutions from across the value chain to cultivate a community of practice, in which professionals are empowered to transform products, organizations, industries, and systems.

Lauren leads the Circularity conference, the largest circular economy event in North America, which she launched in 2019. She writes Circularity Weekly, an industry-leading newsletter respected for its skeptical yet solutions-oriented voice and systems-thinking lens. Lauren sits on the advisory board for the Ocean Plastics Leadership Network and frequently speaks about the circular economy opportunity across plastics and packaging, food, electronics, and apparel. She was named one of WWF’s Women Leading the Plastic Revolution in 2021. Lauren holds bachelor’s degrees in Environmental Analysis and Sociology from Pitzer College and lives in Oakland, California.