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Roland Kupers is a Dutch physicist working on complexity science as it applies to public policy and the energy transition.[1] He is a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University[2] and is a global advisor on methane to the International Methane Emissions Observatory[3] of the United Nations Environment Programme.

Corporate and Advisory work

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Kupers studied theoretical physics[4] and later worked at Shell where he became Vice President for Sustainable Development[5] and Vice President for Global Liquified Natural Gas, LNG[6]. He helped to launch the International Methane Emissions Observatory[7] and is an author of UNEP’s annual report “An Eye on Methane”.[8] Kupers is on the board of trustees of the Environmental Defense Fund in Europe.

Academic and Policy work

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Kupers was an associate fellow at the Smith School for Enterprise and the Environment[9] and a fellow at the Institute of Advanced Studies in Amsterdam[10]. He wrote about resilience and risk in the World Economic Forum 2018 Annual Risk Report[11], about the history of foresight in the Harvard Business Review[12] as well as policy editorials for Project Syndicate[13].

Currently Kupers is studying the climate impact of hydrogen emissions.[14] In 2024 he was awarded a residency at the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center.[15]

Works

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Kupers, R. "A Climate Policy Revolution: What the Science of Complexity Reveals about Saving the Planet" Harvard University Press, 2020 [16][17][18]

Colander, D; Kupers R. "Complexity and the Art of Public Policy - Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom-up." Princeton University Press, 2016. ISBN: 9780691169132 [19][20][21][22]

Wilkinson, A; Kupers R. "The Essence of Scenarios" Amsterdam University Press, 2014 DOI:10.1515/9789048522095

Kupers, R., "Turbulence: A Corporate Perspective on Collaborating for Resilience", Amsterdam University Press, 2014.

Personal life

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Roland Kupers lives in Amsterdam. In 1989 he married designer Hester van Eeghen[23] she died in 2021.[24]

References

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  1. ^ "CEPR/People". Centre for Economic Policy Research.
  2. ^ "Thunderbird faculty". University of Arizona.
  3. ^ "Metcoal Methane Partnership" (PDF). UNECE.
  4. ^ Pietronero, L.; Kupers, R. (1986). "Stochastic Approach to Large Scale Clustering of Matter in the Universe". Fractals in Physics: 319–324. doi:10.1016/B978-0-444-86995-1.50061-5. ISBN 978-0-444-86995-1.
  5. ^ Ginsberg, Jodie. "Business buys into Earth Summit". news24.
  6. ^ Khalaf, Roula. "Market Insight: Liquefied Natural Gas". Financial Times.
  7. ^ "Accelerating Global Methane Mitigation". Rockefeller Foundation. 25 September 2023.
  8. ^ "An Eye on Methane". UNEP. 30 October 2022.
  9. ^ "Seminar". Oxford Martin School.
  10. ^ "ResearchGate".
  11. ^ "The Global Risks Report 2018" (PDF). World Economic Forum.
  12. ^ Wilkinson, Angela; Kupers, Roland (May 2013). "Living in the Futures: How Shell's Scenario Planning Approach Delivers Better Leadership". Harvard Business Review.
  13. ^ Kupers, Roland (4 May 2018). "Getting the Inequality We Want | by Roland Kupers". Project Syndicate.
  14. ^ Sun, Tianyi; Shrestha, Eriko; Hamburg, Steven P.; Kupers, Roland; Ocko, Ilissa B. (21 February 2024). "Climate Impacts of Hydrogen and Methane Emissions Can Considerably Reduce the Climate Benefits across Key Hydrogen Use Cases and Time Scales". Environmental Science & Technology. 58 (12): 5299–5309. Bibcode:2024EnST...58.5299S. doi:10.1021/acs.est.3c09030. PMC 10976891. PMID 38380838.
  15. ^ "Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Announces 2024 Residents".
  16. ^ Kupers, Roland (2020). A climate Policy Revolution – What the Science of Complexity Reveals about Saving the Planet. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674972124.
  17. ^ Terwilliger, Joel (19 September 2022). "A climate policy revolution: what the science of complexity reveals about saving our planet: by Roland Kupers. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2020. $29.95/£23.95/€27.00 (hardback). ISBN 9780674972124". Environmental Politics. 31 (6): 1102–1104. doi:10.1080/09644016.2022.2079213.
  18. ^ Schmidt, Elena (5 May 2021). "How the Psychedelic Revolution Might Just Save The Planet". ThirdWave.
  19. ^ Kupers, Roland (2020). A climate Policy Revolution – What the Science of Complexity Reveals about Saving the Planet. Harvard University Press. ISBN 9780674972124.
  20. ^ Verweij, Stefan (July 2015). "Beyond the "Government-versus-the-Market" Debate: How the Complexity Sciences Should Inform Policy Making". Public Administration Review. 75 (4): 625–627. doi:10.1111/puar.12398.
  21. ^ Kirman, Alan (1 June 2016). "Complexity and Economic Policy: A Paradigm Shift or a Change in Perspective? A Review Essay on David Colander and Roland Kupers's Complexity and the Art of Public Policy". Journal of Economic Literature. 54 (2): 534–572. doi:10.1257/jel.54.2.534.
  22. ^ Buchanan, Mark (24 June 2014). "Is There a Way to Escape Policy Gridlock?". Bloomberg.
  23. ^ Gannji, Joan (2008), Hester van Eeghen, BIS publisher, ISBN 9789063691998
  24. ^ van Rossum, Milou. "Necrologie Hester van Eeghen". NRC Handelsblad.
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