Göran Finnveden

I am a Professor of Environmental Strategic Analysis at the Division of Sustainabilty Assessment and Management at the Department of Sustainable Development, Environmental Sciences and Engineering (SEED) at KTH Royal Institute of Technology. I am currently also a visiting researcher at the research unit Environmental Sustainability Assessment and Circularity at the Luxemburg Institute of Science and Technology in Luxemburg. Between 2011 and 2021, I was Vice-president for sustainable development at KTH. In that role I worked with integration of sustainable development in education, research and collaboration across the whole university. I was also working together with KTH's sustainability manager on reducing KTH's own environmental impact I was also a member of KTH's management council. Between 2003 and 2011 I was Head of the division of Environmental Strategies Research at KTH. During this period, the division established itself at KTH. In 2013 it merged with other units to become SEED. Between 1998 and 2005 I was a researcher and research leader at the Swedish Defence Research Institute and between 1988 and 1998 a researcher at IVL Swedish Environmental Research Institute. I have a M.Sc in Chemical Engineering from KTH (1989), a PhD in Natural Resources Management from Stockholm University (1999) and am a Docent in Industrial Ecology at KTH (2003). My current research is in the areas of circular economy, life cycle assessment methodology, integration of sustainable development in higher education institutions, sustainable consumption and sustainable economic development. Current research projects that I am involved in include * "Mentor - Methods for enviromental sustainability assessment in the early design stage of a resource recovery system" with the Department of Chemical Engineering and others. * "Urban Circle- urban waste and circular economy benefits" together with Stockholm Environment Institute and others. * PANT - How can the deposit-refund system reach a more circular plastic management? * PRINCE - Policy Relevant Indicators for National Consumption and Environment - phase 2 together with Statistics Sweden, Stockholm Environment Institute and others. I am also involved in the research program Mistra Sustainable Consumption - From niche to mainstream. I have published quite a lot in different subjects. Besides scientific publications, I put a lot of emphasis on presenting results to different stakeholders and the public through presentations at seminars and similar events, participation in media, reports that are targeted towards different stakeholders, articles in specialists press, opinion papers in daily press etc. As Vice-president I had a regular blog posted on KTH’s webpage. According to Scopus (September 2021) I have published more than 100 papers with more than 8000 citations and an h-factor of 42. According to Google Scholar I have more 18000 citations and an h-factor of 57. I have been appointed by the Swedish governments to boards and commissions: * Member of the Board of the Stockholm Environment Institute (2020-) * Member of the Swedish Government’s Scientific Council on Sustainable Development (2015-2018). * Member of the Scientific Advisory Council to the Minister of Environment (2012-2014) * Member of the Board of Governors of the Nuclear Waste Fund (2012-2015) * Expert in the Governmental Commission on waste management (2011-2012) * Expert in the Governmental Commission on taxation of treatment of solid waste (2003-2005). I have also had a number of other national and international committments, for example: * Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Joint Programme Initiative Urban Europe (2012-). * Member of the board of directors of the International Sustainable Campus Network (2017-2021). * Member of the advisory board of Aalto University’s Sustainability Hub (2018-2020 ). * Member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Energy field at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2019-). * Member of the Board of the Research Center Misum at the Stockholm School of Economics (2020-) * Chairman of the review panel of Swedish Higher Education Authority’s thematic evaluation of sustainable development in higher education (2016-2017). * Member of the review panel of the research evaluation of the Department of Technology, Management and Economics at the Technical University of Denmark (2017). * Member of the review panel of the energy field of the Helmholtz Association at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (2018). * Member of the review panel of MISTRA Urban Futures at Chalmers (2019). * Member of the International Scientific Advisory Board of the Finnish Environment Institute (2012-2015). * Member of the Academic Council of the Academy of the Swedish savings banks (2008-2010). * Member of the Waste Council at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency (2005-2008), I am a member of the editorial boards (or equivalent) of several scientific journals including The International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, The International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, Journal of Cleaner Production and Sustainability.