Rutger Hoekstra is an associate professor at CML who is an expert on environmental input-output modelling and beyond-growth debates. He leads the WISE Horizons project which works on metrics and models for sustainable and inclusive wellbeing (brede welvaart in Dutch). In 2019, he published his latest book Replacing GDP by 2030 with Cambridge University Press. He has worked for/with the United Nations, World Bank, European Commission, OECD, European Central Bank, IMF, KPMG, Statistics Netherlands and many other organizations.

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Professional experience

Rutger Hoekstra has worked on well-being and sustainability from an academic, governmental and business perspective. He has worked with the United Nations, OECD, World Bank, European Commission, European Central Bank and other international organisations. 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 Cambridge University Press published Replacing GDP by 2030. He has lectured at various universities and published numerous publications on sustainable development, globalisation, circular economy and big data applications. He was also Scientific Director of the True Value methodology at KPMG Sustainability. He leads the WISE Horizons project which works on metrics and models for sustainable and inclusive wellbeing (brede welvaart in Dutch). Rutger Hoekstra is now the owner of MetricsForTheFuture.com, which provides consultancy services to governments, international institutes and companies on Beyond-GDP and Beyond-Profit.

Research topic

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

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