Dr. Ruth Carrasco-Gallego is the Associate Director for Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) at ETSI Industriales, Technical University of Madrid (UPM). Within the Dean’s board, her role is to foster the 2030 Agenda at Industriales and beyond. She is an associate professor in sustainable supply chains with a research focus and expertise on circular economy, environmental and social metrics in value ecosystems and humanitarian logistics. Her research agenda also includes gender perspective in STEM education & careers. She graduated as an industrial engineer in 2004 from UPM and Ecole des Ponts-Paristech and worked as a supply chain engineer at L’Oreal and Air Liquide. She joined the Department of Engineering Management at UPM in 2007 as a PhD candidate and lecturer in the production and logistics’ area. Her doctoral dissertation on reuse closed-loop supply chains received several awards, such as the CEL 2011 University award to the best PhD dissertation on logistics in Spain, the PhD thesis award 2011 of the Board of Industrial Engineers of Madrid (COIIM) and the extraordinary PhD prize by UPM. She has been a visiting scholar at the Erasmus University of Rotterdam (2009), the INSEAD Social Innovation Centre (2011) and the University of Wakayama in Japan (2013).Dr. Carrasco-Gallego has published extensively in her areas of expertise and has participated or led several research projects for both public and private institutions, including the development of the nascent stages of Alianza Shire (http://www.itd.upm.es/alianzashire). She is a regular speaker in panels and roundtables, including a participation at UN EcoSoc in Geneva. Currently, she leads the CircularizatE initiative, an in-campus living lab of real circular economy, aiming at demonstrating that regenerative business models are technically viable, economically profitable and socially inclusive.