Per Olsson

Per Olsson is Associate Professor and Deputy Science Director at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. Based in complexity and systems thinking, his current research focuses on agency and systems entrepreneurship, social-ecological innovations, and capacities for navigating transformations towards just and sustainable futures. This work also focuses on tipping points and the role of crisis and disturbances in transformation dynamics. His work has been published in a variety of natural and social science journals, including Science, Nature Sustainability, Ecology and Society, PNAS, Global Environmental Change, and the Annual Review of the Environment and Resources. In 2019, 2020, 2021 and 2022 he was recognized by the Web of Science as one of the world's most influential researchers of the past decade. Olsson is dedicated to bringing cutting-edge transformations research together with the cutting-edge practice of systemic and transformative change. This has lead him to design and facilitate programs for change-makers such as BALTICLEAD, Transforming Change, Catalyzing Change, The Rockefeller Global Fellowship on Social Innovation, The Robert Bosch Stiftung's Postdoc Academy for Transformational Leadership and the SRC Executive Education Program. He also advises CEOs, entrepreneurs, and philanthropic organizations on sustainability transformations, and he enjoys creating innovative spaces that combine music, art, science.