Jørgen Randers

Jørgen Randers (born 1945) is a Norwegian academic and practitioner (pracademic) in the field of future studies.

Randers is currently (2008) professor of climate strategy at the Norwegian School of Management, where his work is concentrated on climate issues, scenario planning and system dynamics. He lectures frequently abroad in front of corporate audiences on sustainable development, especially on the climate challenge.

Randers serves on the board of several companies, such as Tomra in Norway, and on the sustainability boards of British Telecom in England and The Dow Chemical Company in USA. In 2005-06 he headed the Norwegian Commission on Low Emissions, which presented a report demonstrating how Norway could reduce her greenhouse gas emissions by ⅔ by 2050.

Randers took his cand.real. degree at the University of Oslo in 1968, and a PhD at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1973. He served as deputy director general of the World Wildlife Fund International in Switzerland from 1994 to 1999 and as president of the Norwegian School of Management from 1981 to 1989.

He has authored and co-authored several books and articles, notably the controversial The Limits to Growth (1972) with updates in 1992 and 2004.

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