Programme team

The programme team work in close collaboration to lead and deliver the teaching. They are supported by a wider team of colleagues at both universities, and teaching is supplemented by guest lecturers and employer case studies. 

Nancy Bocken

Academic lead, Maastricht University   

Nancy joined the York-Maastricht Partnership in March 2020. She is a Professor in Sustainable Business at Maastricht University’s Maastricht Sustainability Institute, and is involved in research and education in the broad field of sustainable business, with a focus on sustainable business models, sufficiency and experimentation. 

Nancy is also Fellow at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership and co-founded her own sustainable business called HOMIE. Originally from the Netherlands, she has lived and worked in the UK, France, the USA, and Sweden, and is now back in the Netherlands. She holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge, which was funded by Unilever.

Adrian Gonzalez

Academic Lead, University of York

Adrian joined the York-Maastricht Partnership (YMP) in March 2021 and acted as the York programme leader on the YMP’s flagship Masters programme SUBLIM. He has an interdisciplinary academic background with a PhD in Human Geography (Royal Holloway, University of London), MA in War Studies (King’s College London) and BA (Hons) in History (De Montfort University). As a political geographer and more specifically a political ecologist, he is keenly interested in natural resource governance and conflict, social participation, environmental justice and sustainable development and sustainability. Recently, he has moved his research into sustainability education encompassing pedagogical practice, operations and content (knowledge and skills) creation.

Previously, he was a Lecturer in Human Geography and Planning (Environment) at the School of Geography and Planning, Cardiff University, awarded as part of the “Darlithwyr Disglair” (Brilliant Lecturers) scheme for early career academics (2020-21) and has also held appointments at the University of York (2018-19), University of London and University of East London (2018). He holds a Fellowship of Advance HE (FHEA).

Clarence Bluntz

Lecturer in Sustainable Business, Maastricht University

Before joining Maastricht University, Clarence lived and worked in Paris and Berlin. He holds a PhD in management from Paris-Dauphine University. The focus of his PhD research was on the introduction of sustainability accounting into organisational processes, exploring how accounting information related to social and environmental impacts can be disseminated to various stakeholders and help transform producers’ and consumers’ behaviours; thus making more sustainable business models economically viable.

At the Maastricht Sustainability Institute, Clarence will be active in teaching and education in the joint Master programme between York University and Maastricht University.  He firmly believes that what students learn today will shape what will be possible to achieve tomorrow. As such, he will strive to support them in their explorations of the many modes of organising which make up our society and help them find, understand and apply the ones that reflect their aspiration to a fairer world.

Matthew Archer

Programme Lead and Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Sustainability, University of York

Matthew Archer is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Sustainability in the Department of Environment and Geography at the University of York. His research examines the role of non-state actors like corporations and financial institutions in sustainability governance, with a strong focus on the intersection of standards, technology, and labour in the context of global mineral and agricultural supply chains. His work engages with interdisciplinary conversations in human geography, anthropology, and STS and has been published in journals such as Environment and Planning E: Nature and Space, GeoHumanities, Political Geography, Critique of Anthropology, and Surveillance & Society.

Before joining York in July 2022, Matthew gained postdoctoral research and teaching experience at Copenhagen Business School and the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies. He has a PhD in environmental studies from Yale University, an MSc in environmental economics and climate change from the London School of Economics, and BAs in international studies and Chinese from the University of Mississippi.

Matthew is co-editor-in-chief of Culture, Agriculture, Food & Environment, the journal of the Culture and Agriculture section of the American Anthropological Association. He is also the programme lead of the MSc in Sustainable Business (SUBLIM), which is convened in collaboration with Maastricht University through the York-Maastricht Partnership.