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"Accelerating the Sustainability Transformation in Times of Global Uncertainty"

Philipp Pattberg, Professor, Institute for Environmental Studies, the Netherlands

Philipp Pattberg is a professor of transnational environmental governance and policy at and head of the Department of Environmental Policy Analysis, Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), VU Amsterdam. Philipp also chairs the board of the newly-founded interdisciplinary Amsterdam Sustainability Institute (ASI). He teaches master’s courses in environmental governance at the Faculty of Sciences and the Faculty of Social Sciences. Philipp specializes in the study of global environmental politics with a focus on private transnational governance, multi-stakeholder partnerships, network theory, and institutional analysis. His work has been published in leading scientific journals including Annual Review of Environment and Resources, European Journal of International Relations, Global Environmental Politics, Governance, and Science. Philipp’s most recent book is The Anthropocene Debate and Political Science (co-edited with Sabine Weiland, Lena Partzsch, and Thomas Hickmann, Routledge 2018).