Per Espen Stoknes

Per Espen Stoknes

Prof at BI Norwegian Business School

TED Attendee
Oslo, Norway
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About Per Espen

Bio

Per Espen Stoknes is a TED Global speaker, a psychologist with PhD in economics, and serves as the director of Centre for Sustainability and Energy at the Norwegian Business School in Oslo. An experienced foresight facilitator and academic, he’s also serial entrepreneur, including co-founding clean-tech company GasPlas. Author of several books, among them Money & Soul (2009) and the award-winning book: What We Think About When We Try Not To Think About Global Warming (2015). His latest is Tomorrow’s Economy (2021) on MITPress. Per Espen has served as member of Norwegian Parliament, and sits on the EU Commission’s mission board on Horizon Europe’s Climate Change and Societal Adaptation.

I'm passionate about

Skiing off piste, Sacres mountains

An idea worth spreading

Earth4All model and project identifies the top systemic turnarounds for well-being economy this century

The TED story

https://www.ted.com/talks/per_espen_stoknes_how_to_transform_apocalypse_fatigue_into_action_on_global_warming

Things you might not know

Piano 🎹 improv