Prof.Dr. Jacqueline Cramer is director of the Utrecht Sustainability Institute and professor in sustainable innovation at Utrecht University. Before she was Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (February 2007 – February 2010). Earlier she was director of the consultancy firm ‘Sustainable Entrepreneurship; strategy and innovation consulting’. She worked with more than 100 companies on the implementation of sustainable entrepreneurship. Moreover she worked as part-time professor since 1990. She was also member of various (inter)national advisory boards of the government, industry and non-profit organisations (e.g. crown member of the Dutch Social Economic Council, member of the Advisory Board of the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF)/Netherlands, Maastricht University and the Hogeschool Arnhem-Nijmegen and member of the non-executive board of Shell Netherlands, FMO (Finance for Development Bank) and the sustainability funds of ASN Bank).