Ellen MacArthur

In 2004, Ellen MacArthur became the fastest person to sail a sailboat around the world alone. MacArthur first made headlines in the newspaper in 2001, when she participated in the Fandy Globe solo non shore race at the age of 24. After staying at sea for 94 days, Allen returned to a different life. She had already achieved good results in second place in the most difficult non shore sailing race and caused a huge response. Prior to this, she had won the transatlantic solo sailing race from the UK to the United States, and then the 2002 Ram Island sailing race from France to the Caribbean. After achieving success in the monohull project, MacArthur turned her attention to the multi hull ring race, so she sailed a 75 foot three hull sailboat out of the UK in 2004. After 71 days, 14 hours, 18 minutes, and 33 seconds, she returned, sailing over 26000 miles and becoming the fastest person to sail a sailboat alone to complete a global voyage. In 2005, she was knighted by the Queen and awarded the French Legion of Honor by French President Nicolas Sarkozy. She is the founder of the Ellen MacArthur Cancer Foundation, a charitable organization founded in 2003. Through partnerships with hospitals in the UK, she leads young patients aged 8 to 24 on voyages, helping them regain confidence after receiving cancer and leukemia treatment. MacArthur's unexpected current direction in life was influenced by the sailing competitions she had previously participated in. Those competitions made her truly understand what relying on limited resource supply meant, and the food, water, and fuel on board were inevitably closely related to the success or failure of the voyage. It was through this understanding that Allen made a difficult decision to end her professional competition career and focus on a bigger challenge. She constantly seeks solutions to these challenges, which has led her to discover a framework for redesigning and establishing a positive future circular economy. In 2010, she launched the Ellen MacArthur Foundation with the aim of accelerating the transformation into a regenerative, circular economy. The foundation mainly works in three areas: business, education, and communication.