About Roland Kupers Books
Dr. Roland Kupers is an author and an advisor on Complexity, Resilience, and Energy Transition. He is the Lead Architect of UNEP's International Methane Emissions Observatory, and a Professor of Practice at Arizona State University. A theoretical physicist by training, Roland spent a decade each at AT&T and at Shell in various senior executive functions, including group head for Sustainable Development and Vice President Global LNG. He has a long-running interest in complexity theory and its impacts. He has published widely, including in Harvard Business Review, on Project Syndicate, etc. His books include Hester van Eeghen--A World of Bags (nai010 2024) and A Climate Policy Revolution: What the Science of Complexity Reveals about Saving the Planet (Harvard University Press 2020). He has coauthored Complexity and the Art of Public Policy: Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up (Princeton University Press 2014), The Essence of Scenarios (Amsterdam University Press 2014), and Turbulence: A Corporate Framing of Resilience (Amsterdam University Press 2014). In 2010 Roland was a coauthor of a report commissioned by the German government on a New Growth Path for Europe, applying a complexity lens to climate economics. He has been an advisor to the Environmental Defense Fund, the World Resources Institute, and the Rockefeller Foundation. Roland is a Dutch national; his travels have made him fluent in five languages.
