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