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Jan Rotmans confirmed as third Keynote Speaker

Jan Rotmans/NL

Keynote

Friday, 25.10.2019, 15.00

Jan Rotmans (1961) is a socially engaged scientist, with more than 200 publications in the field of climate change and global change modelling, sustainable development, and transitions and system innovations. After his PhD research and work at RIVM he became the youngest professor of the Netherlands in 1997, at Maastricht University (ICIS: International Centre for Integrative Studies). In September 2004, he founded the new research institute DRIFT, Dutch Research Institute For Transitions, and became a full professor in Transitions and Transition Management at the Erasmus University Rotterdam.

Apart from his scientific work, he also wants to contribute to a better and sustainable society. Therefore, radical change, a transition, is necessary. With his knowledge, he would like to define the rules and communicate them to the people involved in any project, region or sector, so that they can give it a swing into a more sustainable direction. For a more sustainable future in the Netherlands he co-founded the Urgenda in 2007. In 2014 he founded “Nederland Kantelt”, a foundation that will stimulate transition in the Netherlands in several fields.

For more information about Jan Rotmans, see www.janrotmans.nl