Daniel Christian Wahl

Daniel Christian Wahl holds degrees in Biology (BSc. Hons., Univ. of Edinburgh, 1996), HolisticScience (MSc.,Schumacher College, 2002) and a PhD in Design (Univ. of Dundee 2006) on 'Design for Human and Planetary Health. Daniel lives on Majorca where he helped to set up SMART UIB and works locally and internationally as a consultant, educator and activist. Among his clients have been Ecover, Forum for the Future, Camper, Balears.t, Save the Med, Lush, UNITAR, UK Foresight, Cloudburst Foundation and many universities and N.G.O.s.

Daniel was the director of Findhorn College from 2007 to 2010, is a member of the International Futures Forum and H3Uni, an advocation partner of r3.0, and on the advisory councils of Ecosystems Restoration Camps, Commonland, the Ojai Foundation, Future Planet Europe, the Centre for the Future and the Overview Institute of Australia, as well as a Findhorn Foundation Fellow. 

He has been linked to Global Ecovillage Network for over 20 years. Daniel has worked closely with Gaia Education since 2007 and contributed to the development of their Design for Sustainability online course and co-authored the current versions of all four dimensions of the curriculum, which is now forming the basis of a new MA and PhD programme offered in collaboration with Ubiquity University. He also wrote the content and developed the concept of Gaia Education's SDGs Flashcards which with the support of UNESCO are now translated into 7 languages.

His 2016 book 'Designing Regenerative Cultures' has helped to define the field of regenerative design and has been translated into 8 languages so far. Daniel’s Blog on Medium is followed by over 25,000 people and his social media advocacy has a combined audience of over 850,000 people around the world.

In 2021 the Royal Society for Arts, Manufacture and Commerce - founded in 1754 - awarded Daniel with the Bicentenary Medal for "an outstanding and demonstrable contribution, through ... design practice, towards an equitable and regenerative world." He has been awarded a Volans Fellowship for 2022 and 2023 by John Elkington in support of past and ongoing work, and has been nominated for the Blue Planet Prize four years in a row. He co-hosts the highly successful podcast ‘Regeneration Rising’ in collaboration with the RSA and RSA Oceania.

Daniel teaches regularly on the the MA in Ecological Design Thinking at Schumacher College. He collaborated with Tobias Luthe on launching 4 Massive Open Online Courses, and a series of Certificates of Advanced Studies as well as an Executive Masters: Regenerative Systems at ETH Zürich. The Designing Resilient Regenerative Systems community of graduates has grown to 6500 people from 110 countries in only 2 years.

In 2010, Daniel moved to the island of Mallorca to grow roots and commit to long-term work at the bioregional scale of this island and the Balearic Archipelago. He has worked with many NGOs and activist groups, businesses and business clusters, as well as, the local university and public administration on this island. More recently he helped in the foundation and resourcing of the Land & Sea Alliance to work on landscape scale bioregional regeneration. Daniel lives with his wife and his daughter in a half hectare fledgling Mediterranean regenerative food forest he planted since 2022 and is developing into a model for regenerative agroforestry on the island.