Johan Schot

Biography

Johan Schot is Professor of Comparative Global History at the Centre for Global Challenges (UGLOBE) at Utrecht University, Netherlands. He is Academic Director of the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium and the Deep Transitions research project, both originally coordinated out of the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School. He was previously Director of SPRU from 2014 to 2018.

In 2022, Schot initiated a collaboration between historians, sustainability transitions scholars, futurists and a cohort of public and private investors from around the world. The group published a Transformative Investment Philosophy proposing new principles, tools and metrics for financing long-term system change and a deep transition towards sustainability.

Following the launch, the Deep Transitions Lab launched in 2023. Using the Philosophy, it aims to establish a niche in the finance industry and contribute to its scaling. The Lab helps organisations move away from a case-by-case focus that favours system optimisation and instead directs investments towards the root causes of unsustainable practices that increase social inequality.

Personal Website: http://www.johanschot.com/

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