Jacqueline Cramer is professor of sustainable innovation at Utrecht University and director of the consultancy firm ‘Sustainable Entrepreneurship’. Before she was Minister of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment (2007 –2010). Her background is primarily related to industry, working for many years with more than 200 companies on the implementation of corporate social responsibility and circular economy. She was and still is member of numerous (inter-)national non-executive boards of the government, industry and non-profit organisations, among which member of the Amsterdam Economic Board, particularly in charge of the circular economy and Chair of Holland Circular Hotspot.