An hour of sustainability

Who is Soňa Klepek Jonášová?

Soňa Klepek Jonášová graduated in Agricultural Engineering from Mendel University in Brno. She founded INCIEN (Institute for Circular Economy), which has also been operating in Slovakia since 2016, after studying and interning abroad in the Netherlands and Spain. Since 2014, she has actively promoted circularity and sustainability topics in the Czech Republic. She helped launch platforms such as the Czech Circular Hotspot and Change for the Better, as she considers connecting the right people within specific projects key to transforming sustainability from words into action. She enjoys building bridges between worlds, for example by serving on advisory boards of public institutions (e.g., the Climate Issues Commission of the Government Office) and major companies (e.g., Škoda Auto), while also pursuing a PhD in social ecology at Charles University.