Louis Meuleman is an academic, practitioner and trainer on sustainability governance, metagovernance and policy coherence and integration. He is visiting professor public governance at KU Leuven University (Belgium); member and currently vice chair of the United Nations Committee of Experts on Public Administration (CEPA); vice chair of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency (EEA); and director of the think tank Public Strategy for Sustainable Development (PS4SD). During his 40 years’ public administration experience at subnational, national, European and UN level, he was among others Head of Unit Rural Areas at the former Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and the Environment of the Netherlands. Later he was director of the Dutch science-policy advisory council RMNO and host of the EEAC network (2002-2005). From 2011-20, he was policy coordinator at the European Commission, DG Environment. He has a PhD in public administration (Public Management and the Metagovernance of Hierarchies, Networks and Markets, Springer, 2008) and an MSc in environmental biology. His latest book is Metagovernance for Sustainability (Routledge, 2018). As co-founder and director of the think tank Public Strategy for Sustainable Development (www.ps4sd.eu ) in Brussels, he advises among others national governments, the European Commission, the OECD, UN bodies, the Council of Europe on SDG implementation challenges.