About this speaker
Kristiaan Kok is an Assistant Professor working at the Athena Institute of the VU University in Amsterdam. My research focuses on the politics and governance of sustainability transitions. In particular, he is interested in how we can better understand, govern and support transdisciplinary transition experiments and inclusive (policy) innovation, especially in the context of (EU) agri-food systems. Together with colleagues, we have authored publications in international peer-reviewed journals such as Research Policy, Sustainability Science, Agricultural Systems, and Environmental Innovation & Societal Transitions, as well as scientific and policy reports for the European Commission (DG Research and Innovation).
In addition to his work at the VU, Kristiaan works at the Department of Integrated Environmental Policy Analysis of the Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), where they work on the role of reflexive evaluations and transformative governance.
He has been working on (managing) several (EU-funded) projects, and as a teacher he is involved in courses and thesis supervision of BSc and MSc students as well as PhD candidates.
