Christian Kroll is the Scientific Co-Director of the SDG Index and Dashboards, a research project on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (annual report produced under lead authorship of Jeffrey Sachs). He was honoured as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum in 2018. Christian gained a PhD from the London School of Economics and Political Science with a thesis entitled "Towards a Sociology of Happiness". He works as Senior Expert for Sustainable Development at Bertelsmann Stiftung, and authored numerous articles in scientific journals spanning several disciplines (e.g. Sociology, Economics, Psychology), as well as policy-oriented reports. He is also a Guest Lecturer at the Hertie School of Governance in Berlin, he taught classes at the London School of Economics and held academic positions at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government as well as Jacobs University Bremen. His research has featured in national and international media such as the Harvard Business Review, Washington Post, Le Monde, Die Zeit, ARD, Spiegel Online among others. Website & list of publications: www.christiankroll.com