Prof A.P.J. (Arthur) Mol, Vice chair of the Executive Board, Rector Magnificus of Wageningen University

Primary position

Prof Arthur P.J. Mol was appointed Rector Magnificus and member of the Executive Board of Wageningen University & Research on May 28th 2015.

Responsibilities within Wageningen University & Research

As an environmental expert and sociologist, Mol was appointed chair of Environmental Policy in 2000. From 2009 to 2014 he was director of the Wageningen School of Sciences and a member of the Doctorate Board. His core research themes include globalisation, social theory and environmental issues, ecological modernisation, sustainable production and consumption, information-based management and urban environmental management. He conducts research on several continents.

Current additional positions

Mol is an editor for Environmental Politics magazine and the book series New Horizons in Environmental Politics.

• Member Scientific Advisory Committee AMS - Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions
  Jul 2015 - Current
  On behalf of WUR

• Editor - Edward Elgar
  Jan 2012 - current
  New Horizons in Environmental Politics book series

• Rectorencollege Nederlandse Universiteiten - VSNU
  Jun 2015 - current

• Advisory Board Sustainable places research institute - Cardiff University
  Jan 2010 - jul 2020

• Scientific Advisory Board Global governance program - Leuven University
  Jan 2010 - jan 2018
  Program of the Centre for Global Governance Studies, University of Leuven

• Board member - Nationaal Comité Herdenking Capitulaties 1945 Wageningen
  Jul 2015 - current

• Member Supervisory Board - Wetsus
  Jul 2015 - current

• Board member Research committee Environment & Society - International Sociological Association
  Jul 1998 - current

• Board Member - The Sustainability Consortium
  Jul 2015 - current
  On behalf of WUR

• Lid Commissie Onderzoek en Valorisatie - VSNU
  Jul 2015 - current
  On behalf of WUR

• Member High Level Panel of Experts on Food Security and Nutr - FAO, UN Committee on World Food Security
  Jul 2012 - current

• Member Scientific Advisory Committee AMS - Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions
  Jul 2015 - current
  On behalf of WUR

• Board Member - Agri Food Capital
  Jun 2016 - current
  Board Member of Agri Food Capital in the Province of Noord Brabant, the Netherlands

• Begeleidingscommisie PBL - Planbureau voor de Leefomgeving
  Jul 2016 - current
  lid Begeleidingscommissie PBL

Former scientific, advisory and professional activities

Arthur Mol studied Environmental Hygiene in Wageningen, graduating in 1985, and went on to obtain a PhD in Sociology from the University of Amsterdam in 1995.

He was a professor of Environmental Policy at the School of Environment and Natural Resources at Renmin University in China from 2009 to 2013. He also worked as a professor at Tsinghua University in Beijing from 2013 to 2015, at the National University of Malaysia from 2014 to 2015 and at Chiba University in Tokyo from 2009 to 2014.

Mol was appointed a member of the International Sociological Association RC24 Environment and Society in 2006, a member of the Sustainable Places Research Institute at Cardiff University in 2010 and a member of the High Level Panel of Experts (HLPE) of the UN Commission for World Food Security (CFS) in 2010.

Mol has been a member of the China Committee of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences since 2013 and a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of the Global Governance and Democratic Government programme at the Catholic University of Leuven's Centre for Global Governance Studies in Belgium from 2010 to 2017.

From 2009 to 2013 he was a member of the Steering Committee for the Sustainable Development Knowledge Partnership of the UN Commission for Sustainable Development in New York.

He was the Wageningen University & Research representative in the Netherlands Deans of Social Sciences from 2013 to 2015 and a board member of the Amsterdam Institute for Advanced Metropolitan Solutions (AMS) from 2014 to 2015.

Publications

Arthur Mol has co-authored 24 books and 14 special issues of international scientific journals. He has also published 187 peer-reviewed articles and 90 scientific book chapters.

He has an h-index of 21 on Web of Science, 24 on Scopus and 43 on Google Scholar. Mol has supervised 48 PhD candidates, with 22 currently in preparation.

The Wageningen University & Research Library has an overview of all publications Professor Mol has written throughout his career at Wageningen University & Research.

• List of publications at Wageningen University & Research: A.P.J. Mol
• List of publications on Google scholar
• List of publications on Narcis
• List of publications on Web of Science
• List of publications on Scopus

Honours/awards

• Selected as one of 200 leading Dutch researchers in the 'Cream of Science' list by the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2005.
• Frederik H. Buttel Award, International Sociological Association, 2010
• Award for distinguished scholarship of the American Sociological Association, Environment and Technology section, 2010
• Vinus Zacheriasse Award for the best Social Science publication in 2010 for: L. Zhong and A.P.J. Mol, (2010), 'Water Price Reforms in China: Policy-making and Implementation', Water Resources Management 24, pp. 377-396