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Johan Rockström
Executive Director, Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and Stockholm Resilience Centre.
Johan Rockström is the Executive Director of the Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He is a Professor in Natural Resource Management at Stockholm University and a guest Professor at the Beijing Normal University. He is a leading international scientist on global water resources and sustainable development, with more than 15 years experience of research on agriculture, water resources and ecosystems and integrated water resource management in tropical regions, with more than 50 peer reviewed scientific articles and several books in fields of global environmental change, resilience and sustainability, agricultural water management, watershed hydrology, global water resources and food production, and eco-hydrology. He has served as advisor to several international organizations, governments and the European Union on sustainability and development, and is a frequented key-note speaker to several international research, policy and development arenas on sustainable development, global environmental change, and resilience thinking. He serves on several international committees and boards, including the scientific advisory board of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact research, the scientific overview committee of ICSU, the executive board of the Resilience Alliance, and the board of WaterAid Sweden.
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