Rutger Hoekstra is an associate professor at the Institute of Environmental Sciences of Leiden University. He is an expert on measuring Beyond-GDP metrics for Wellbeing, Inclusion and Sustainability (WISE). He is also the author of Replacing GDP by 2030 which was published by Cambridge University Press in 2019.
Rutger was the co-chair of the UN-ECE/OECD/Eurostat task force that produced the Conference of European Statisticians Recommendations on Measuring Sustainable Development. He currently leads the WISE Horizons project which is a 4-year European project to develop metrics, accounting and models for sustainable and inclusive wellbeing. Furthermore, he is also involved in the MERGE project and many other international initiatives such as the UN Expert Group on Wellbeing Measurement (EGWM).
He has worked with/for the United Nations, World Bank, European Commission, OECD, European Central Bank, KPMG, Statistics Netherlands and many other organizations.