(Re)joining Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future
From 2017 to 2020, I served as interim executive director of Stakeholder Forum for a Sustainable Future. Now I am back. Per October 2025 I have been appointed as one of their fellows.
Stakeholder Forum Fellows and Associates are individual experts at stakeholder engagement in global, regional, or local sustainability policy processes. They share the vision of Stakeholder Forum to advance sustainable development at all levels. Together, they bring decades of experience from within all levels of government, academia, business and industry, the NGO community, and the United Nations’ inter-governmental environment and development processes. Fellows and Associates are structurally affiliated with Stakeholder Forum in a variety of capacities. Some are engaged to deliver project work for Stakeholder Forum, others are Project Leaders for work that they have brought in-house to be under the Stakeholder Forum umbrella, and some are renowned women and men who bring topic-specific knowledge to the organization. And others are the next generation of sustainability practitioners who share a common vision with Stakeholder Forum.
That’s the formal description. But for me, this appointment is more than that. It is also about rejoining friends and colleagues from around the world. Many of them I have spent countless hours with roaming the corridors of the UN in New York, gathering in the Delegates’ Lounge at UNEP in Nairobi, and walking the streets of the EU quarter in Brussels, and meeting with the most divers people from all over the world working to strengthen the role of stakeholders and the science–policy interface in governance for sustainability.
In this role, my focus for now will be to advise on and help connect the nitty-gritty of processes and policy formulation with the development of ambitious strategies, and vice versa in the international arena. It is an honour to be part of Stakeholder Forum again, and a nice complement to my daily work as managing consultant with BMC on energy transition policies at the local and national level.