Dr. Beatrice Crona

Professor and Deputy Science Director - Stockholm Resilience Center

Beatrice is a Professor in Sustainability Science and Scientific Director at the Stockholm Resilience Center, as well as Executive Director of the research program Global Economic Dynamics and the Biosphere at the Royal Swedish Academy of Science. She has a PhD in systems ecology and has worked for 20 years to integrate various social science theories and methods with ecology to improve understanding of complex social-ecological dynamics. Her work now increasingly focuses on understanding how capital markets can be a force for rapid movement towards sustainability, and how corporate reporting and ESG can facilitate corporate and financial biosphere stewardship. She currently co-leads the Mistra FinBio program that aims to provide meaningful measures of biodiversity for corporate and financial sectors.