Arthur Mol, Rector Magnificus and Vice-president Executive Board of Wageningen University & Research.

Professor Mol was trained in environmental sciences (MSc) and environmental social sciences (PhD). Besides chair and professor at Wageningen University he was also professor of environmental policy at Renmin University, China, at Tsinghua University, China, and at the National University of Malaysia UKM. He is at the editorial board of 7 international peer reviewed journals and book series editor of New Horizons in Environmental Politics. His main fields of interest and publications are in environmental studies, globalization, informational governance, ecological modernization, China, sustainable (food) production and consumption and urban environmental governance.

He is president of the Association of European Life Science Universities, Vice-chairman of the Association of Universities in the Netherlands, and board member of a number of other national and international scientific institutions.