Dr. Roland Kupers is an advisor on Complexity, Resilience and Energy Transition, Professor of Practice at Arizona State University. He is the Chief Architect of UNEP’s International Methane Emissions Observatory. A theoretical physicist by training, Roland spent a decade each at AT&T and at Shell in various senior executive functions, including Group head for Sustainable Development and Vice President Global LNG. He has a long running interest in complexity theory and its impacts. He has published widely, including in HBR, on Project Syndicate, A Climate Policy Revolution: What the Science of Complexity Reveals about Saving the Planet (Harvard UP 2020) and co-authored Complexity and the art of public policy: Solving Society's Problems from the Bottom Up (Princeton UP 2014), The Essence of scenarios (Amsterdam UP 2014), and Turbulence: A corporate framing of resilience (Amsterdam UP 2014). In 2010 Roland was a co-author of a report commissioned by the German Government on a New Growth Path for Europe, applying a complexity lens to climate economics. He has been an advisor to the Environmental Defense Fund, the World Resources Institute and the Rockefeller Foundation. Roland is a Dutch national; his travels have made him fluent in five languages.