2024: PROFESSOR METTE MORSING

Mette Morsing is Professor of Business Sustainability and Director of the Smith School of Enterprise and the Environment at the University of Oxford. In this role, she leads a team of more than 120 scholars committed to achieving Net Zero and developing Nature-Based-Solutions (NBS) towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). She also serves on several Councils and Advisory Boards worldwide (USA, Europe, Asia, China, UK). She previously served the United Nations, New York (USA), where she led UN Principles for Management Education, the UN’s largest initiative for responsible management education with over 800 universities and business schools to transform leadership education towards the SDGs. Before that she was a Professor at Copenhagen Business School (Denmark) and Stockholm School of Economics (Sweden), in both schools she was the Director for research centres on sustainability. 

She has done research in the areas of business ethics, leadership, strategy and cross-sector partnerships for sustainable development. Her research has won international awards and recognition, and she is an invited author, researcher and speaker globally. Having published extensively in the world’s most highly regarded academic journals on business and sustainability, she recently co-edited the textbook Corporate Sustainability: Managing Responsible Business in a Globalised World by Cambridge University Press.