About the Author
Dr. Maja Göpel is head of the Berlin Office of the
Wuppertal Institut. For the past 20 years she has been
following the quest to find out why humans collectively do not create the sustainable societies that they
individually state to wish for. This took her back and
forth between theory and practice, reflection and
change making in different sectors. She visited six
universities in four countries for a Ph.D. in global
political economy and a diploma in media and communications and still enjoys lecturing and learning. For
several civil society organizations she served as a
campaigner, advocate, and expert in world trade, climate change, financial reform, and sustainable development. From 2006 to 2012
she helped start up the World Future Council, created its Future Policy Award
celebrating integrated policy solutions and the Future Justice programme tackling
today’s short-termism in politics and economics.
This enabled work with change leaders from all walks of life, took her around
the world and into EU and UN policy-making. In 2013 Maja went back to research
with the Wuppertal Institut where her work focuses on the role of mind and
paradigm shifts in transformation processes and the translation of large system
change analysis into local change maker strategies. She is a member of the Club of
Rome and the Balaton Group and currently serves on the steering committee of the
German Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the scientific
advisory boards of terre des hommes Germany and Development and Peace
Foundation. Her daughters are 1 and 4.
Among the selected English publications are:
“Shifting paradigms: unpacking transformation for climate action; a guidebook
for climate finance and development practitioners, working paper, Wuppertal
Institute, 2014, at: http://epub.wupperinst.org/frontdoor/index/index/docId/5518;
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
M. Göpel, The Great Mindshift, The Anthropocene:
Politik—Economics—Society—Science 2, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43766-8
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Dr. Maja Göpel is head of the Berlin Office of the
Wuppertal Institut. For the past 20 years she has been
following the quest to find out why humans collectively do not create the sustainable societies that they
individually state to wish for. This took her back and
forth between theory and practice, reflection and
change making in different sectors. She visited six
universities in four countries for a Ph.D. in global
political economy and a diploma in media and communications and still enjoys lecturing and learning. For
several civil society organizations she served as a
campaigner, advocate, and expert in world trade, climate change, financial reform, and sustainable development. From 2006 to 2012
she helped start up the World Future Council, created its Future Policy Award
celebrating integrated policy solutions and the Future Justice programme tackling
today’s short-termism in politics and economics.
This enabled work with change leaders from all walks of life, took her around
the world and into EU and UN policy-making. In 2013 Maja went back to research
with the Wuppertal Institut where her work focuses on the role of mind and
paradigm shifts in transformation processes and the translation of large system
change analysis into local change maker strategies. She is a member of the Club of
Rome and the Balaton Group and currently serves on the steering committee of the
German Sustainable Development Solutions Network (SDSN) and the scientific
advisory boards of terre des hommes Germany and Development and Peace
Foundation. Her daughters are 1 and 4.
Among the selected English publications are:
“Shifting paradigms: unpacking transformation for climate action; a guidebook
for climate finance and development practitioners, working paper, Wuppertal
Institute, 2014, at: http://epub.wupperinst.org/frontdoor/index/index/docId/5518;
© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
M. Göpel, The Great Mindshift, The Anthropocene:
Politik—Economics—Society—Science 2, DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-43766-8
181