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Dr. Roland Kupers is an advisor on Complexity, Resilience and Energy Transition.
A theoretical physicist by training, Roland spent a decade each at AT&T and at Shell in various senior executive functions, including Group head for Sustainable Development and Vice President Global LNG. Subsequently Roland has become an author, lecturer at various universities and an advisor. He has a long running interest in complexity theory and its impacts.
He has published widely, including in HBR, on Project Syndicate, A Climate Policy Revolution: What the Science of Complexity Reveals about Saving the Planet (Harvard UP 2020) and co-authored Complexity and the art of public policy: Solving Society’s Problems from the Bottom Up (Princeton UP 2014), The Essence of scenarios (Amsterdam UP 2014), and Turbulence: A corporate framing of resilience (Amsterdam UP 2014).
Roland has been an advisor to the Environmental Defense Fund, the World Resources Institute and the Rockefeller Foundation. He has been affiliated with Oxford, Amsterdam Arizona State and Singapore Management Universities. He has been the initiator and lead architect of UNEP’s International Methane Emissions Observatory.
Roland is a Dutch national; his travels have made him fluent in five languages.
