Rita Klapper

Dr Rita Klapper is (Associate) Research Professor for Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at IDRAC Business School in Lyon, France, and holds a Visiting Professor position at IREES, the Institute for Integrated Research on Energy, Environment and Society at the University of Groningen. Previously, she was Reader (Associate Professor) in Enterprise and Sustainability at Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. She is a specialist in the pedagogy of sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation, and takes a practitioner-oriented, insider-focused approach. She has held academic positions at Rouen Business School Neoma in France, the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development at Utrecht University in the Netherlands, and Manchester Business School in the UK.