Prof Johan Schot

Visiting Professor
Name: Johan Schot
SARChI TRCTI Visiting Scholars  Staff Members

Contact Details:

Email: j.w.schot@uu.nl

About Prof Johan Schot

Johan Schot is Professor of Global Comparative History and Sustainability Transitions at the Utrecht University Centre for Global Challenges. He is the founder and Academic Director of the Deep Transitions research project and the Transformative Innovation Policy Consortium (TIPC) as well as former Director of the Science Policy Research Unit (SPRU) at the University of Sussex Business School.

Professor Schot’s interests orientate around impact-driven interdisciplinary research that strives to accelerate long-term system change and a just transition towards sustainability. Schot is a network-builder that brings together interdisciplinary research teams, policy-makers, investors, governments, NGOs, the media and the corporate world.

In November 2022, Schot initiated a unique collaboration between historians, sustainability transitions scholars, futurists and a cohort of 16 public and private investors from around the world. The group published a Transformative Investment Philosophy proposing new principles, tools and metrics for financing long-term system change and a deep transition towards sustainability. Following the launch, the Deep Transitions Lab officially launched in October 2023. The lab helps organisations move away from a case-by-case focus that favours system optimisation and instead directs investments towards the root causes of unsustainable practices that increase social inequality.

He is the author of several influential publications including Three Frames For Innovation Policy: R&D, Systems of Innovation and Transformative Change  (Schot &Steinmueller). DeepTransitions: Emergence, Acceleration, Stabilization and Directionality (Kanger&Schot) and Writing the Rules for Europe: Experts, Cartels And Internation.