Brian Bauer

Brian Bauer applies his knowledge in sustainability, technology & policy into creating value by leveraging the circular economy movement into business model innovation. He connects a network of experts across industry, academia, finance & government who are keen to collaborate on innovative upstream waste management solutions. With Algramo, he focuses on connecting stakeholders to help catalyze reusable packaging systems on a globally significant scale. Brian and the team at Alramo are currently working with Unilever, Nestle and other brands, on game-changing packaging as a wallet technology that enables their reusable packaging to communicate with IoT connected vending machines. He is proud that his proposals have won Algramo: Top Idea in the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s $1 Million Circular Design Challenge, MIT Solve Circular Economy Challenge, and the National Geographic’s Ocean Plastic Innovation Challenge. He also teaches a graduate level Applied Circular Economy class at Harvard. He has been a speaker at: The European Union’s Our Ocean Conference in Malta; Volvo Ocean Summit in Cape Town; The United Nations System Staff College; The United Nations Science, Policy & Business Forum in Nairobi and Circularity 19.