The King Carl XVI Gustaf Professorship in Environmental Science is a prestigious, selective appointment awarded by the

Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences () is one of the Swedish Royal Academies, royal academies of Sweden. Founded on 2 June 1739, it is an independent, non-governmental scientific organization that takes special responsibility for promoting nat ...

, to one or two people annually. it began in 1996. Elected Professors spend one year at a Swedish University.

History

The King Carl XVI Gustaf 50th Anniversary Fund for Science, Technology and Environment was founded in 1996 to celebrate the Swedish King's 50th birthday. The four original founders were the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences (KVA), the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences (IVA), the Royal Swedish Academy of Agricultural Sciences (KSLA) and the Confederation of Swedish Enterprise (Svenskt Näringsliv, then Sveriges Industriförbund). The purpose was to promote research, technological development and enterprise that would contribute to the sustainable use of natural resources and the maintenance of biodiversity. The governing body awards grants to 15–20 young researchers annually, but also, The Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research, MISTRA, and the Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education, STINT, decided to fund one international guest professor per year for five years. This programme was prolonged for another five years and has subsequently received financial support directly from the King Carl XV I Gustaf 50th Anniversary Fund. The Royal Guest Professorship promotes research across the broad spectrum of the environmental sciences, in both their social and their natural-scientific aspects. Its purpose is to create links between Swedish centres of higher learning and distinguished foreign researchers able to contribute to the renewal of Swedish environmental sciences. Nominations to the Royal Guest Professorship can be made annually by Swedish universities. Each university may nominate two candidates each year. The holder is appointed by the governing body of the 50th Anniversary Fund for one year residence in Sweden, by a working committee with external experts.

Recipients

* *1997 Professor

Paul Alan Cox Paul Alan Cox is an American ethnobotanist whose scientific research focuses on discovering new medicines by studying patterns of wellness and illness among indigenous peoples. Cox was born in Salt Lake City in 1953. Education After receiving h ...

, Institute for Ethnomedicine, USA (awarded 1996) *1998 Professor Garry Brewer, Yale School of Management *1999 Emeritus Professor Robert Charlson, University of Washington *2000 Emeritus Professor

Andrew Warren Andrew Marvin Warren (born 1967; Chesapeake, Virginia) is a former CIA operative, who served as CIA station chief in Algiers, Algeria, during 2007–2008. In 2010, he pleaded guilty to charges of sexual assault of two women and the following year ...

, UCL *2001 Emeritus Professor

Roland W. Scholz Roland Werner Scholz (* 15. April 1950 in Halle (Saale)) is a German mathematician, psychologist, and Professor Emeritus of Environmental Systems Science at ETH Zurich. He famously coined the terms transdisciplinarity and societal didactics. Rol ...

, ETH, Zürich *2002 Emeritus Professor Colin Fudge, University of Bristol, now at RMIT University *2003 Professor

Susan Baker Susan Baker (born 9 October 1955) is a Professor Emerita in the School of Social Sciences and former co-director of the Sustainable Places Research Institute at Cardiff University. Her research concerns environmental governance in the European U ...

, Cardiff University *2004 Professor Robert Ayres, INSEAD *2005 Professor

Lesley Head Lesley Head (1957-) is an Australian geographer specialising in human-environment relations. She is active in geographical debates about the relationship between humans and nature, using concepts and analytical methods from physical geography, ...

, University of Wollongong, now University of Melbourne *2006 Professor Emeritus

Keith Beven Keith John Beven (born 23 July 1950) is a British hydrologist and distinguished emeritus professor in hydrology at Lancaster University. According to Lancaster University he is the most highly cited hydrologist. In 2017, Beven was elected a me ...

, Lancaster University *2007 Professor Jason Shogren, University of Wyoming *2008 Emeritus Professor Susan Owens, University of Cambridge *2009 Professor Markku Kulmala, University of Helsinki *2010 *2011 Professor Shinya Sugita, Tallinn University *2012 Professor

Nancy Langston Nancy Langston is an American environmental historian, currently working as a professor in the Department of Social Sciences at Michigan Technological University. She was the President of the American Society of Environmental History from 2007 ...

, Michigan Technological University *2013 Professor Harriet Bulkeley, Durham University *2014 Professor Raymond T. Pierrehumbert, University of Oxford and Dr. Walker O. Smith, Virginia Institute of Marine Sciences *2015 Professor Chris Evans - UK Centre for Ecology and Hydrology at the University of Bangor *2016/17 Professor Stephen M. Redpath,

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*2017/18 Professor John Anderson,

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*2018/19 Derek Muir, senior research scientist,

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, adjunct professor

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and

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*2019/20 Professor Paul Anastas,

Yale University Yale University is a Private university, private Ivy League research university in New Haven, Connecticut, United States. Founded in 1701, Yale is the List of Colonial Colleges, third-oldest institution of higher education in the United Stat ...

*2020/21 Professor Scott Edwards,

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*2021/22 Professor André M. de Roos,

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*2022/23 Professor Keith Paustian,

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*2023/24 Professor Liane Rossi,

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*2024/25 Professor Amit Rawal,

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References

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