
Ariane König is Assistant Professor on Regenerative Social-Ecological Systems at the University of Luxembourg. Her transdisciplinary research and study programme serve to create concepts, spaces and processes for transformative governance with a focus on how we engage with water and land. She equips change agents with approaches such as collaborative conceptual systems mapping, scenario work and citizen science, to tap into collective intelligence and develop an enhanced repertoire for regenerative thought and action in a networked knowledge society. Critical questions hinge on the role of science and other forms of knowing in deep transformation processes. She is a member of the Luxembourg Observatory of Climate Politics and the European Statistical Advisory Committee. Prior to Luxembourg she has held positions at the Universities of Oxford and Harvard. Her transdisciplinary approach draws on her lived experience as regulatory affairs manager at the interface of science, the law and public acceptance in diverse regulatory and scientific cultures, and her training as biochemist and genetic engineer at the University of Cambridge.