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Frans Berkhout
Interim Director of Future Earth and Professor of Environment, Society and Climate in the Department of Geography, King’s College London.
Frans Berkhout is the Interim Director of Future Earth. He is also Professor of Environment, Society and Climate in the Department of Geography, King’s College London.
Between 2004 and 2012 he was Director of the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM) and the Amsterdam Global Change Institute (2010 to 2013) at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Before that he held posts at SPRU (Science and Technology Policy Research), University of Sussex (UK), and was Director of the UK Economic and Social Research Council’s (ESRC) Global Environmental Change and Sustainable Technologies programmes.
He is a lead author in Working Group 2 of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and holds a number of other scientific and policy advisory roles.