Keynote Speaker
ESA RN12 ‘Environment and Society’ Mid-Term Conference & 7th Joint Conference of the Energy and Society Network
Joyeeta Gupta is Professor of Environment and Development in the Global South at the University of Amsterdam and Professor at IHE-Delft Institute for Water Education. Previously, she was professor on Climate Change Policy and Law at the Vrije Universiteit in Amsterdam. She won the highest academic recognition (Spinoza Prize) in the Netherlands in 2023 (1.5 M €) and the Amsterdam Impact Prize in 2025. She has a European Research Council Advanced Grant (€2.5M 2021-2026) for climate research; and is a life-member of the Netherlands Royal Academy of Sciences.
She is on the editorial board of six journals, was lead author in the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (1998-2014) which won the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 and the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment which won the Zayed 2nd prize. She has successfully supervised 33 PhDs. She has led, or participated in, acquiring 60 projects from funding agencies. Joyeeta Gupta is Co-chair, UN Secretary General Appointed Group of Ten High-level Representatives of Civil Society, Private Sector and Scientific Community to Promote Science, Technology and Innovation for the SDGs. She is also currently Commissioner, Roadmap for Transformative Action to Achieve Health for All at Net-Zero Emissions, National Academy of Medicine, USA. She was co-chair role of the Earth Commission (2019-2024) which has published in Nature and Lancet Planetary Health and presented results at the World Economic Forum plenary in Davos, 2023. She was co-chair of UNEP’s Global Environment Outlook-6: Healthy Planet, Healthy People (2016-2019) whose report won the 2019 Association of American Publishers PROSE award for Environmental Science.
