Frank Biermann

Frank Biermann is a research professor of Global Sustainability Governance at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. He is an internationally leading scholar of global institutions and organizations in the sustainability domain. Biermann pioneered the "earth system governance" paradigm in global change research and was the founder and first chair (2006-2018) of the Earth System Governance research alliance, a leading global transdisciplinary research network of sustainability scholars. Biermann has authored or edited 22 books and published over 200 articles in peer-reviewed journals and chapters in academic books. He is frequently invited to participate in advisory and evaluation committees and has spoken in the United Nations General Assembly, the European Parliament and the European Economic and Social Committee. Biermann is an elected Fellow of the World Academy of Art and Science, a group of 700 individuals "chosen for eminence in art, the natural and social sciences, and the humanities". In 2021, the Environmental Studies Section of the International Studies Association presented him with its "Distinguished Scholar Award". In 2014, he was awarded the Volvo Environment Prize “for defining new pathways for international environmental governance in a period of global change”.