Joost Vervoort is Associate Professor of Transformative Imagination in the Environmental Governance Group at the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development. Joost's research focuses on how different imaginations of the future connect to action in the present. He is also a Senior Researcher at the Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. An ecologist by training, Joost holds a PhD from Wageningen University in stakeholder engagement through scenarios and other approaches to sense-making in and navigating through complex systems. A main current focus for Joost is the use of games and game co-design for understanding and planning in complex systems.