Events

14 Feb 2012

4:30 pm

Cho Yiu Hall, G/F, University Administration Building, CUHK

Professor dr. Jacqueline CramerProfessor in Sustainable Innovation, Utrecht UniversityDirector of the Utrecht Sustainability InstituteFormer Minister of Environment and Spatial Planning, The Netherlands

Professor dr. Jacqueline Cramer is director of the Utrecht Sustainability Institute and professor in sustainable innovation at Utrecht University. Before she was Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment for the Labour Party (February 2007 – February 2010). Earlier she was director of the consultancy firm ‘Sustainable Entrepreneurship; strategy and innovation consulting’. She worked with more than 100 companies on the implementation of sustainable entrepreneurship. Moreover she worked as part-time professor since 1990.

Professor dr. Jacqueline Cramer started her career as an associate professor at the University of Amsterdam (1976 – 1989), as senior researcher at the Centre ‘Strategy, Technology and Policy’ of TNO (1989 –1999). She was also member of various (inter) national advisory boards of the government, industry and non-profit organisations (e.g. crown member of the Dutch Social-Economic Council, member of the Advisory Board of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)/ Netherlands, the University Maastricht and the Applied University Arnhem-Nijmegen and member of the non-executive board of Shell Netherlands, FMO (Finance for Development Bank) and the sustainability funds of ASN Bank.

Free

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Professor Cramer will describe the evolution of implementing sustainable development within industry, government and society at large. She will dwell upon the past, present and future of sustainability. By taking a historical perspective (from the 1970s onwards), she will show how the role of industry, government and society has changed over time and how the focus has shifted from environmental pollution to sustainability. The lecture will also address current sustainability issues inEurope.