Rutger Hoekstra is full Professor of Sustainable and Inclusive Wellbeing (Hoogleraar Brede Welvaart). He is an expert in post-growth researcher which aims to overcome societies’ focus on economic growth and profits towards Wellbeing, Inclusion and Sustainability. He leads the WISE Horizons project and is Work Package lead of the MERGE project, which both work on metrics, models, policies and narrative for sustainable and inclusive wellbeing. He was the co-chair of the UNECE/OECD/Eurostat Task Force which developed the Conference of European Statisticians Recommendations on Measuring Sustainable Development. In 2019, he published his book Replacing GDP by 2030.with Cambridge University Press. In the past, he has worked for/with the United Nations, World Bank, European Commission, OECD, European Central Bank, IMF, KPMG, Statistics Netherlands, Greenpeace, Global Reporting Initiative, Wellbeing Economy Alliance, ZOE Institute and many other organizations.

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Professional experience

Rutger Hoekstra has worked on well-being, inclusion and sustainability from an academic, governmental and business perspective. He has written two books (including) and has published numerous scientific publications on post-growth, sustainable development, globalisation, circular economy and big data applications. He was also Scientific Director of the True Value methodology at KPMG Sustainability. He currently leads the WISE Horizons project which works on metrics, models, policies and narrative for sustainable and inclusive wellbeing (brede welvaart in Dutch).

Research topic

Rutger’s research interest include post-growth/beyond-growth, Beyond-GDP, wellbeing/sustainability policy, inequality, environmental economics using input-output techniques, environmental accounting, structural decomposition analysis, globalisation, circular economy.