Peter Scholten

Dr. Peter Scholten is a governance and sustainability expert with a Social and Political Sciences of the Environment background. He works for the Environmental Governance and Politics Department of Radboud University in Nijmegen and the Institute of Housing and Urban Development Studies at Erasmus University in Rotterdam. He is a research lead in a transdisciplinary research project looking into artistic interventions in decision-making processes and how they can contribute to transformations toward sustainability. He also engages in research and practice related to the sharing and co-creation of urban knowledge, as part of the CLOSER CITIES initiative.
He holds a PhD in water governance and has experience in governance, planning, and leadership strategies in complex decision-making environments. Peter collaborates with a large variety of academic and societal organisations across the globe. He teaches and supervises PhDs in the Erasmus Graduate School of Social Sciences & Humanities of Erasmus University Rotterdam and the Radboud Global PhD program on Sustainability Challenges.