Frances Westley,^* Per Olsson,^** Carl Folke,^*** Thomas Homer-Dixon,^**** Harrie Vredenburg,^***** Derk Loorbach,^****** John Thompson,^******* Måns Nilsson,^******** Eric Lambin,^********* Jan Sendzimir,^********** Banny Banerjee,^*********** Victor Galaz,^************ Sander van der Leeuw<sup>*************


*</sup>Frances Westley () holds the J.W. McConnell Chair of Social Innovation, Director of the Waterloo Institute for Social Innovation and Resilience (WISIR), and professor in the School for Entrepreneurship, Environment and Development (SEED) at the University of Waterloo, Canada. She received her Ph.D. in Sociology from McGill University, Canada. Her research is in social innovation for resilience, transformation of linked social-ecological systems, inter-organizational and interdisciplinary collaboration and social/institutional entrepreneurship. Address: Social Innovation Generation, University of Waterloo, 195 King Street West, Suite 202, Kitchener, ON N2G 1B1, Canada. e-mail: fwestley@uwaterloo.ca
^**Per Olsson is the theme leader for Adaptive Governance, Networks and Learning at Stockholm Resilience Centre. He received his Ph.D. in natural resource management from Stockholm University. His research interest is in linked social-ecological system dynamics and resilience, and adaptive governance of social-ecological systems. Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Kräftriket 2B, SE-10691, Stockholm, Sweden.
^***Carl Folke is the Science Director of the Stockholm Resilience Centre and the Director of the Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. He received his Ph.D. in Ecological Economics/Natural Resource Management, Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University, Stockholm. His research is on the role that living systems at different scales play in social and economic development and how to govern and manage for resilience in integrated social-ecological systems. Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Kräftriket 2B, SE-10691, Stockholm, Sweden. Address: Beijer Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden.
^****Thomas Homer-Dixon holds the Centre for International Governance Innovation Chair of Global Systems at the Balsillie School of International Affairs in Waterloo, Canada. He received his Ph.D. from MIT in international relations and defense and arms control policy. Recently, his research has focused on threats to global security in the 21st century and on how societies adapt to complex economic, ecological, and technological change. Address: Waterloo Institute for Complexity and Innovation, University of Waterloo, 57 Erb Str. West, Waterloo N2L 6C, Canada. Address: Centre for International Governance Innovation, Balsillie School of International Affairs, Waterloo, Canada.
^*****Harrie Vredenburg is a Professor of Strategy at the University of Calgary's Haskayne School of Business, the Suncor Energy Chair in Competitive Strategy and Sustainable Development and Academic Director of the Global Energy Executive MBA. He holds a Ph.D. in strategic management from the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario. His research deals with corporate competitive strategy innovation, and sustainable development. Address: Haskayne School of Business, University of Calgary, 495 Scurfield Hall, 2500 University Drive NW, Alberta T2N 1N4, Canada. Address: Institute for Sustainable Energy, Environment & Economy, University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
^******Derk Loorbach is the director of the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) and associate professor at the Faculty of Social Science, both at Erasmus University Rotterdam, where he also received his Ph.D. Within his research, he focuses on the development of transition management in theory and practice. Address: Faculty of Social Sciences, Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT), Erasmus University Rotterdam, M5-45, P.O. Box 1738, Rotterdam 3062 PA, The Netherlands.
^*******John Thompson is a senior Research Fellow in Knowledge, Technology and Society at the Institute of Development Studies (IDS), Joint Coordinator of the Future Agricultures Consortium and Convenor of the Food and Agriculture Domain of the STEPS Centre, UK. A resource geographer with an MA and Ph.D. from Clark University; his research focuses on the political ecology of agri-food systems and the governance of agricultural science, technology and innovation processes. Address: ESRC STEPS Centre, Institute of Development Studies, University of Sussex, Library Road, Brighton BN1 9RE, UK.
^********Måns Nilsson is a Deputy Director and Research Director at SEI and Visiting Professor in Environmental Strategies Research at the Royal Institute of Technology (KTH) in Stockholm. He received his Ph.D. degree in Policy Analysis from Delft University of Technology, Netherlands. He is interested in energy and climate policy, strategic assessment, innovation, European policy, and global governance. Address: Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI), Kräftriket 2B, 10691, Stockholm, Sweden.
^*********Eric Lambin is a professor at Stanford University and University of Louvain. He holds a Ph.D. in geography from University of Louvain. His research deals with land use change. Address: Department of Geography, University of Louvain, Louvain, Belgium. Address: Georges Lemaître Centre for Earth and Climate Research, Earth and Life Institute, Université catholique de Louvain, Place Louis Pasteur 3, Louvain-la-Neuve 1348, Belgium.
^**********Jan Sendzimir is a Research Scholar: International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis, Risk and Vulnerability Program. His Ph.D. is in Systems Ecology from the University of Florida, Gainesville, USA. His current research projects use modeling to guide scientific research-policy development related to the sustainable development of communities in major river systems as well as in semi-arid regions in Africa and Central America. Address: The International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Schlossplatz 1 A-2361, Laxenburg, Austria.
^***********Banny Banerjee is an Associate Professor at the Stanford University's d.school and founder of the Stanford Change Labs, He holds graduate degrees in Architecture, Mechanical Engineering, and Design. He is currently working on developing radically new processes in which design thinking can be leveraged in order to generate paradigmatic shifts in multi-faceted challenges. His focus is to develop transdisciplinary processes to bring about rapid change and large-scale sustainable transformations. Address: Stanford Design Group and Stanford Change Labs, Stanford, USA. Address: Hasso Plattner Institute of Design, 416 Escondido Mall, Building 550, Room 169, Stanford, Stanford, CA 94305-3086, USA.
^************Victor Galaz is a researcher at the Stockholm Resilience Centre. He holds a Ph.D. in political science from Göteborg University. His reseach deals with global governance, emerging technologies and resilience. Address: Stockholm Resilience Centre, Stockholm University, Kräftriket 2B, SE-10691, Stockholm, Sweden.
^{*************}Sander van der Leeuw is a professor at Arizona State University. He holds a Ph.D. in archaeology from the University of Amsterdam (1976). His current research deals with the long-term evolution of socio-ecological systems, and in particular with the role of information processing and innovation in them. Address: School of Sustainability and School of Human Evolution and Social Change, Arizona State University, Tempe, USA. Address: ASU-GIOS, 800 S. Cady Mall, P.O. Box 875402, Tempe 85287-5401, USA.