Ellen Stenslie is a PhD Candidate working within the field of environmental social enterprises and sustainability entrepreneurship. Her interdisciplinary research focuses on building institutions for a sustainable, post-growth economy, in particular green enterprises, and investigates how innovative entrepreneurs build enterprises with environmental purpose at its core. Her fields of study include sustainable business models, entrepreneurship, institutional economics, corporate legal structures and the political economy of environmental governance.

Stenslie has a M.Sc. in International Environmental Governance and further studies within business management, organisational psychology and political science. She has previously researched carbon finance, environmental governance and policy, including forestry (REDD) and Payments for Ecosystem Services. She has previously worked internationally with Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), forest policy and carbon markets, and served on the Board of the European Society for Ecological Economics.

Ellen Stenslie takes a particular interest in building sustainable economic institutions through social and environmental innovation in the post-growth economy.

She is currently a visiting researcher with The Centre for the Understanding of Sustainable Prosperity (CUSP) in the UK, working within the alternative enterprise stream.