BTH - Key Persons
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- Associate Professor
- Deputy
- Deputy Vice - Chancellor
Andreas Larsson is Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Strategic Partnerships, and Head of the Collaboration and Innovation Unit.
André Benaim is passionate about personal and organizational development. He explores these interests in his work as a coach, as well as within sustainability related projects. His work experience includes the development of innovation capabilities in teams, as well as the development and implementation of empowering programs and processes for teams to learn more from their experiences. Currently, Andre is a project leader at the Energy Agency for Southeast Sweden.
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- Librarian
- Department of Spatial Planning ( TIFP )
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- Representative
- Doctoral Student
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- Consultant and Entrepreneur
Dr. Barrett Brown is a consultant and entrepreneur in the areas of leadership, organization, communication and sustainability. Dr. Brown has helped to initiate a dozen organizations, developed the multi-annual programs in leadership development, delivered leadership initiatives to managers in Fortune 500, and instructed senior officials of the United Nations Development Programme.
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- Professor of Political Science at the University
Dr. Bo Rothstein is a professor of Political Science at the University of Gothenburg. Dr. Rothstein manage the Quality of Government Institute and is an expert on quality of governance, the social trap and anti-corruption and he leads the largest ever European project in the social sciences.
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- Founder of the Sustainability Advantage
Dr. Bob Willard is the founder of The Sustainability Advantage - a source of research-based data on the business benefits of sustainability. Dr. Willard has extensive experience in business and leadership from his 34 year career at IBM Canada and in 2011 and was installed in the International Society of Sustainability Professionals' Hall of Fame.
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- Professor of Energy and Environment at Chalmers University
Dr. Christian Azar is a professor of Energy and Environment at Chalmers University of Technology. Dr. Azar works on strategies for prevention and management of climate change, including energy systems modeling, technology assessment and policy analysis. He has been a leading contributor in the IPCC work.
Dr. Deniz Koca is a senior lecturer in applied systems analysis and system dynamics at Lund University and focuses on the complex dynamics of ecological and socio-economic systems.
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- Senior Researcher at the New Economics Foundation in the UK
Dr. Emanuele Campiglio is a senior researcher at the New Economics Foundation in the UK. Dr. Campiglio focus on macro-economics for sustainability, growth theory, ecological economics and environmental economics, modeling of climate change and basic economics theory.
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- Professor and Science Director at the Department of Strategic Sustainable Development
Dr. Göran Broman is a Professor and Science Director at the Department of Strategic Sustainable Development, and Dean of the Faculty of Engineering, at BTH. Dr. Broman holds a PhD in mechanical engineering from Lund University. He has also studied subjects such as ecology, human ecology, economics, resource theory and leadership. He has extensive experience in transdisciplinary research and education and has played a leading role in the establishment of strategic sustainable development as a new academic subject area. He has worked with integration of sustainability aspects in higher education. He has worked in industry with innovation and quality assurance and he advises and trains leaders in industry and society in strategic sustainable development and leadership for sustainability. Dr. Broman founded the MSLS Program together with Dr. Robèrt in 2002 and was part of the design team that developed the launch version and early iterations of the programme.
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- Senior Director at the Clinton Foundation 's Large Cities Climate Initiative
Dr. Göran Carstedt is a Senior Director at The Clinton Foundation's Large Cities Climate Initiative, a founding member of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) and former CEO of IKEA in North America and Volvo in France. He is also one of the early contributors to the MSLS program and has been actively involved in each year's class.
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- Sustainability Manager at INEOS ChlorVinyls Ltd.
Dr. Jason Leadbitter is a Sustainability Manager at INEOS ChlorVinyls Ltd. and was previously Chief Sustainability Officer at Hydro Polymers Ltd. Dr. Leadbitter's work focuses on research and development for the conversion of the plastics industry to sustainability.
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- Professor of Law at the University
Dr. Jason Meek is professor of Law at the University of California Berkeley, USA and also teaches Negotiation and Settlement at the Center for Negotiation and Dispute Resolution at the University of California Hastings, USA.
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- Professor at the Department of Strategic Sustainable Development
Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt is a Professor at the Department of Strategic Sustainable Development at BTH. Dr. Robèrt holds a medical doctor's degree and PhD in internal medicine from Karolinska Institute and has been Head of the Department of Clinical Hematology and Oncology at Huddinge Hospital. Dr. Robèrt has also been Professor of Physical Resource Theory at Chalmers University of Technology. He has extensive experience in transdisciplinary research and education and has played a leading role in the establishment of strategic sustainable development as a new academic subject area. He advises and trains leaders in industry and society in strategic sustainable development and leadership for sustainability. Dr. Robèrt founded the MSLS Program together with Dr. Broman in 2002 and was part of the design team that developed the launch version and early iterations of the programme.
Dr. Leif Johansson is the Chairman of Ericsson and has been CEO of the Volvo Group, Electrolux, and other companies. Dr. Johansson is also Chairman of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences, Board Member of the Association of Swedish Enterprises and Chairman of the European Round Table of Industrialists.
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- Professor of Energy Systems at Linköping University
Dr. Louise Trygg is a professor of energy systems at Linköping University. Dr. Trygg is an expert in modeling, simulation and optimization of energy systems, strategic energy development and energy efficiency.
M.Sc. Pong Leung was the second Programme Director of MSLS at BTH (2006-2008). He has led sustainability initiatives for over 10 years with a number of private, public and non-profit organisations and has played a leading role in the successful development of The Natural Step (TNS) in Canada. He holds a Master´s of Science Degree in Environmental Policy and Management from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University, and a Bachelor of Commerce Degree from the University of Alberta in Canada.
M.Sc. Edgard Gouveia Júnior is a teacher in the graduate program at the Universidade Monte Serrat, Brazil. He is the chairman and co-founder of the Instituto Elos - Brazil, a member of the Berkana Exchange, Member of the Ashoka Foundation and co-creator and designer of Oasis Game.
Dr. Mark Everard is a director, member and former Chairman of the Institution of Environmental Sciences and Principal Scientist at the Environment Protection Agency, UK. Dr. Everard is an expert in freshwater environment and its equitable and sustainable use.
Dr. Merlina Missimer is an Assistant Professor and the Programme Co-Director of MSLS at the Department of Strategic Sustainable Development at BTH. Her research has a focus on the social dimensions of sustainability. She holds a B.Sc. in international environmental studies from Franklin & Marshall University, USA, and a Masters in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from BTH.
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- Founder of ELIAS
- Professor of Organization Studies at MIT Sloan School of Management
Dr. Otto Scharmer is a professor of Organization Studies at MIT Sloan School of Management. Dr. Scharmer is the founder of ELIAS (Emerging Leaders for Innovation Across Sectors), an initiative focused on the development of in-depth system innovation for a more sustainable world.
Dr. Patricia Lagun Mesquita has a PhD from the Strategic Sustainable Development department at the Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), Sweden. Her research focuses on how to strategically integrate a social sustainability perspective into the product innovation process. Patricia has a B.A. in Social Sciences with a major in Anthropology from the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil, and a Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from BTH. Prior to her PhD, she worked for several years with supporting companies in Brazil in integrating sustainability thinking into their practices.
M.Sc. Pierre Johnsson is a lecturer at the Department of Strategic Sustainable Development at BTH. He has a B.Sc. in electrical engineering from Carleton University, Canada, and a Master's in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from BTH. He has extensive experience in strategic management work in companies and municipalities.
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- Founder of the Society for Organizational Learning
- Professor of Leadership and Sustainability at MIT Sloan School of Management
Dr. Peter Senge is a professor of Leadership and Sustainability at MIT Sloan School of Management. Dr. Senge is the founder of the Society for Organizational Learning (SoL) and expert in organizational change and systems thinking.
Dr. Rachael Gould is a researcher and teacher working with sustainable product design. She helps companies to integrate sustainability in their design processes. She also works with companies and organisations to understand how they can work with softer, more human aspects of the transition to sustainable product design, such as behaviour change, organisational learning and decision-making. In addition, Rachael is very passionate about education for sustainable development. She is a keen teacher and is the assistant coordinator for integrating sustainability in the University's educational offerings.
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- Professor of Sustainability and Director of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions
Dr. Robert Costanza is a professor of sustainability and director of the Institute for Sustainable Solutions at Portland State University, USA. Dr. Costanza is an expert in ecological economics.
Dr. Terry Collins is a professor of green chemistry and director of the Institute for Green Science at Carnegie Mellon University, USA. Dr. Collins is an expert in catalytic environmental chemistry and has several patents for high-efficiency catalytic purification processes.
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- Professor of Environmental and Energy Systems at Lund University
Dr. Thomas B. Johansson is a professor of Environmental and Energy Systems at Lund University. Dr. Johansson has been head of the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE) at Lund University. He was convening lead author of the IPCC Second Assessment Report.
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- Research Fellow at the Stockholm Environment
Dr. Åsa Persson is a research fellow at the Stockholm Environment Institute. Dr. Persson's research focuses on the processes of policy-making on the environment in Sweden and Europe, and the international and global governance of climate change adaptation.
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- Projektassistent
- Senior Researcher in Software Engineering
Ehsan Zabardast is a senior researcher in Software Engineering in Software Engineering Research Lab (SERL) Sweden at Blekinge Institute of Technology. He holds a PhD in Software Engineering. His primary research involves software assets, asset management and degradation, technical debt, and software architecture.
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- Member of the Additional
- University Director
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- Biträdande Professor / Viceprefekt
Kajsa Balkfors is an adviser, strategist and cultural entrepreneur operating within the areas of business, the arts, education and the public sector. She is the management consultant who became a circus director. During her 12 years as CEO and head of R&D at internationally-renowned Cirkus Cirkör, she co-established contemporary circus on a national and societal scale with a strong entrepreneurial focus. Now she is back in the public, non profit & business world to help organisations re-think risk and opportunities in order to be able to navigate and succeed in times of change. Kajsa is CEO, senior consultant, coach and educator at Unleash and brings a unique competence in strategy, leadership, collaborative innovation and creativity. She works thightly with her clients and a global network of partners in quest.
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- Assistant Professor at the Software Engineering Research
- Professor / Prodekan
Krzysztof Wnuk is an assistant professor at the Software Engineering Research Group (SERL) of Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden. He received his M.Sc. Degree from Gdansk University of Technology, Poland (2006) and his PhD from Lund University, Sweden (2012). His research interests include market-driven software development, requirements engineering, software product management, decision making in requirements engineering, large-scale software, system and requirements engineering and management and empirical research methods. He is interested in software business, open innovation and open source software. He works as an expert consultant in software engineering for the Swedish software industry.
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- Founder and Member of Positiva Pengar
Toke Paludan Moeller has been pioneering in the fields of sustainable entrepreneurship, participatory leadership, educational renewal, and social responsibility since the early 1970s. He is co-founder and CEO of InterChange, a for more than profit training and process consulting company based in Denmark. He is working across the world in all kinds of contexts where ever leaders are sincerely calling for help with their transformations.
M.Sc. Lars Alaeus is a founder and member of Positiva Pengar, the Swedish branch of International Movement of Monetary Reform, IMMR, a network active in 29 countries. From 1979 until retirement 2017, he has been working for Ericsson designing telecom systems. The problem that IMMR intends to solve is that the current monetary system, where money, our means to pay, is created by business banks in connection with a loan, makes the financial system unstable and increases the economic inequality between people and countries. This has been obvious during the last years where the value of houses and shares has boomed in spite of the economic crisis induced by the pandemic. The solution is to implement Sovereign Money, a monetary system for a sustainable society, where all money is created by the central bank and distributed so that it benefits all citizens instead of a few. The result is a monetary system disconnected from interest rates and fiscal policy and with no automatic drive to expand. A sustainable monetary system, a necessity for a sustainable society.
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- Coordinator for Educational Support
Lic. James Ayers is a PhD student in education for sustainable development constructing learning environments and pedagogy for complexity and wicked problems - creating leaders able to act in uncertainty. He holds a Bachelor of Creative Arts, Diploma of Journalism and is an Alumni of the Master's of Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability program in which he now facilitates and teaches. He has spent almost ten years working in large organisations working towards sustainability transitions, with a focus on education and communication aspects and also worked for Engineers Without Borders Australia as the Communications and Brand Manager and Team Captain of their Humanitarian Design Summit Program. He is from Melbourne, Australia.
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- Staff Member of the MSLS Programme Team at the Department of Strategic Sustainable Development
M.Sc. David Waldron was invited to Sweden in 2003, by Professors Broman and Robèrt, to lead the team that designed and launched the original MSLS Programme in August, 2004. This included developing and refining many of the defining features of the programme, including its unique approach to leadership and learning culture and the integration of co-creative processes with strategic sustainable development. David was Programme Director until 2006. David has, for 25 years, co-created original sustainability leadership initiatives for local communities, universities, businesses and non-profit organizations. He has taught sustainability leadership at BTH, University of British Columbia (UBC), Simon Fraser University (SFU) and UC Berkeley. David holds a Master's of Resource and Environmental Management from SFU and a Bachelors of Applied Science (Civil Engineering) from UBC. David is co-founder of, and is actively working with Synapse Strategies, a consultancy focusing on strategic leadership towards sustainability and regenerative development.
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- Member of the University of Cambridge 's Business
- Special Consultant
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- Senior Advisor in Change Strategies at the World Wildlife Fund
MBA Charlotte Millar is a senior advisor in change strategies at the World Wildlife Fund, UK and part of the leadership team of the Finance Innovation Lab - an incubator for system change in the financial industry - and Tasting the Future - a network with a focus on sustainable food systems.
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- Associate Professor
- Senior Lecturer
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- Librarian
- Department of Health ( TIHA )
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- Professor in Molecular Biomimetics at the Department of Chemistry
Sarah Denie is a macro-economist and educator with a Masters degree in International Economic Studies from Maastricht University (NL). Having started her career as a global strategy analyst in the financial sector, she soon decided to take her interests in human rights and ecological integrity seriously, and changed profession to become a researcher for Dutch and international NGOs. While researching a wide variety of industries and their persistent unsustainable social and environmental practices, Sarah became increasingly interested in the deeper drivers of the system. She returned to her original field of economics and self-educated in a wide range of economic alternatives.
Stenbjörn Styring is Professor in Molecular Biomimetics at the Department of Chemistry - Ångström. He previously held the chair in Biochemistry at Lund University. His research on photosynthesis deals with the mechanism of the oxygen evolving complex in Photosystem II. In artificial photosynthesis he focuses on manganese, cobalt and ruthenium-manganese compounds for water oxidation. Stenbjörn Styring is the chairman of the Swedish Consortium for Artificial Photosynthesis.
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- Senior Associate at the Natural Step Canada
Tamara Connell is a Senior Associate at the Natural Step Canada. Tamara has been working with The Natural Step Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development since she began her Master's degree in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS) at the Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH) in Sweden, back in 2005. After completion of her degree, she spent one year working with the Vancity Group to enhance their sustainability performance and leadership. After that, she returned to Sweden to join the teaching team at BTH, eventually holding the role as MSLS Programme Director for several years. She has stewarded about 250 talented graduates through their studies in Sweden, and has taught around the world, including in Canada, USA, Mexico, Costa Rica, France, China, and on the Peace Boat's 74th global voyage.
M.Sc. Tracy Chaplin Meisterhiem designs and facilitates transformative learning experiences and strategic change initiatives guided by a passion for building individual and collective capacity for conscious leadership and wise action towards a thriving world. Using creativity, mindfulness practices, contemplative dialogue, designed challenges, strategic frameworks and practical tools, Tracy illuminates new possibilities and deeper connections between people and planet through experiential training, participatory dialogues, educational design, and learning facilitation. Tracy is an Art of Hosting steward and founder and principal of Blue Heron Associates. Furthermore, she has experience directing a sustainability education center and the program of the Msc in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability (MSLS) at Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden.
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- Project Manager of the Sustainable Robertsfors
Torbjörn Lahti is currently the Project Manager of the Sustainable Robertsfors project in northern Sweden. Between 1983 and 1989, Mr. Lahti was the Project Manager of the first eco-municipality in Sweden. He has been a teacher of sustainable development applied to municipalities for many years and has lectured extensively internationally. He is co-author of the book, The Natural Step for Communities.
Yannick Wassmer helps groups of people work better together to address our most pressing complex social and ecological issues and help leaders thrive in times of uncertainty and complexity. Yannick holds a bachelor's degree in Communication Science from the University of Groningen, a Master's of Arts (cum laude) in Intercultural Communication from the University of Utrecht, and a Master's of Science in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability from the Blekinge Institute of Technology in Karlskrona, Sweden. In his work, he often draws from the following methods, mental models, and practices: The Art of Hosting; Framework for Strategic Sustainable Development / The Natural Step Framework; Theory U; Flow Game; Transition Management; Systems Thinking and Complexity Theory; Intercultural Facilitation. Yannick currently works as Senior Consultant at Reos Partners.
As an educator and process facilitator, Courtnae Dunn is passionate about bridging the interdisciplinary field of leadership development with peacebuilding in order to deepen the effectiveness of conflict transformation practices. Over the past 15 years, she has built up extensive experience in peacebuilding in the global North and South.