Professor Karl-Henrik Robèrt, MD, PhD, cancer scientist, Founder of the NGO The Natural Step (TNS). He is a professor of sustainability at Blekinge Institute of Technology (BTH), and the chairman of the international research program Real Change.

This program is co-founded between TNS, BTH, Lund’s University and five Swedish Agencies including The Swedish Governmental Agency for Innovation Systems, EPA, and the Energy Agency. The unique ten year program recruits university partners across the globe, applying one and the same unifying framework for sustainable development. Karl-Henrik Robèrt is Fellow of World Business Academy, Advisory Board Member at Georgia Institute of Technology, USA, and Doctor of Public Service at the University of Portland, USA.

In 1999 Dr. Karl-Henrik Robèrt won the Green Cross Award for International Leadership, and in 2000 he won the Blue Planet Prize, the ‘Nobel prize’ for ecological sustainability.

In 2006 he was included in the publication -100 Visionaries of the 20th Century.

ABOUT THE LECTURE:

According to Professor Karl-Henrik Robèrt, it is a fantastic human experience to understand basic principles for worthy goals together, across disciplinary and professional and ideological boundaries, and realize that we need each other to reach the goal.

Against that background, it is breathtaking that so few of our leaders know how to put a robust definition of full sustainability on the table, and to shape their debates and action programs accordingly.

Professor Karl-Henrik Robèrt will go through a unifying framework for strategic sustainable development, provide real life examples of its use across the globe, and outline how democratic processes can be shaped that take this knowledge seriously.