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Prof Måns Nilsson is the Executive Director (ED) of Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Sweden, and holds an academic position as Professor of Practice at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH). As ED, he is directing, structuring, and delegating all work at the Institute with seven centres around the world and more than 300 employees. He is thus leading on global strategy development and implementation, supervising all senior management functions e.g. finance, HR, communications, operations and research. Leadership focuses on driving impact, building organisation’s culture for delivery, accountability, teamwork, and trust, recognising, and leveraging diversity, addressing organizational risk, and ensuring our strategic goals and priorities are in sync with continual growth and raised ambition levels. During his tenure, SEI has grown in staff, turnover, and impact as a world-leading environmental policy institute.
In his academic and policy work, his expertise ranges from policy integration and coherence, development strategy, institutions and governance, transitions in energy-industry-transport sectors, to innovation policy. In recent years, he has been closely involved in the development and implementation of the 2030 Agenda, and is a regular advisor to the UN, OECD, the European Commission, and the Government of Sweden. Prof Nilsson has slipped more than 60 papers past unsuspecting editors of academic journals and has edited two books.
He hold a Ph.D in Policy Analysis from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands; and a Master of Science received in International Economics from the University of Lund, Sweden.
