Description
Lauren Hermanus is a co-founding director of Southern Transitions, an organisation rooted in Southern Africa, working to unlock transformative economic opportunities in and for the Global South. She is a researcher and strategist with more than fifteen years of experience working on sustainable development. Her experience spans different economic sectors, working with diverse actors from government, business, IGOs, and civil society. Her work has included on-the-ground economic diversification experiments through Just Transition Lab, as well as contributions to South Africa’s Just Energy Transition Investment Plan (JET-IP) and leadership of the Just Urban Transitions project, both through How We Adapt, a network-based advisory practice she started in 2016. In 2024, she was a finalist for the WIN WIN Gothenburg Award for her work facilitating partnerships for just transitions.
