Francois Pieter Retief

I completed my PhD at the University of Manchester on the effectiveness of environmental assessment. Since then I have contributed numerous peer reviewed publications on the performance of different environmental management instruments and supervised more than 50 masters and PhD students (Scopus h-index of 33). I am currently appointed as a professor of environmental management at the North West University (NWU), South Africa. I serve on editorial boards of leading international environmental assessment journals and also previously acted as co-editor of Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal (IAPA) Journal. In 2020 I was awarded the International Individual Award by the International Association for Impact Assessment (IAIA) for my sustained contributions to the field of environmental assessment.