Frans Berkhout

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Frans Berkhout is a Dutch social scientist and academic leader. He works on sustainable innovation and climate change adaptation and has held leadership positions in the UK, the Netherlands and France. He is currently Assistant Principal (King’s Climate & Sustainability) at King’s College London.^[1]

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Berkhout was born in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania and grew up in Ibadan, Nigeria before moving to the UK to attend Leighton Park School in 1974. He holds a Geography BSc from the University of Leeds and a PhD in Science & Technology Policy Studies from the University of Sussex.

He is Assistant Principal (King’s Climate & Sustainability) and Professor of Environment, Society and Climate in the Department of Geography at King’s College London. Previously, he was Executive Dean of the Faculty of Social Science & Public Policy at King’s and has held academic positions at Princeton University (US), the University of Sussex (UK) and the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (NL) where he was Director of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM, 2004-2012).^[2][3]

Among other advisory roles, he was a lead author in two Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (AR4 and AR5) and a member of the 2014 Research Excellence Framework of the UK Higher Education Funding Council for England.^[4][5] He was chair of UK Future Earth, a joint committee of four UK scientific academies supporting integrated research and action on global sustainability, from 2013 to 2021.^[6]

His research has been concerned with science, technology, policy and sustainability, with a focus on sustainable innovation and climate change. His main academic contributions have been to the understanding of innovation in socio-technical systems and adaptation to climate change. He sits on the editorial boards of Journal of Industrial Ecology, Current Opinion on Environmental Sustainability, Journal of Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions, Journal of Environmental Policy & Planning and The Anthropocene Review.^{[7][8][9][10]} He shared the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize with other authors of the IPCC Fourth Assessment Report and is a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences (UK, 2016).^[11][12]

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