Maurie J. Cohen is Professor of Sustainability Studies and Director of the Program in Science, Technology, and Society at the New Jersey Institute of Technology. He is also Associate Faculty Member with the Division of Global Affairs at Rutgers University, Associate Faculty Member with the Rutgers/NJIT Urban Systems Program, and Associate Fellow at the Tellus Institute. Cohen is additionally Editor of Sustainability: Science, Practice, and Policy (SSPP), Associate Editor of Environmental Innovation and Sustainability Transitions, and co-founder and Management Team Member of the Future Earth Knowledge-Action Network on Systems of Sustainable Consumption and Production. He is the author of more than seventy journal articles and book chapters and his books include The Future of Consumer Society: Prospects for Sustainability in the New Economy (2017), Social Change and the Coming of Post-consumer Society (2017), Putting Sustainability into Practice: Applications and Advances in Research on Sustainable Consumption (2015), and Innovations in Sustainable Consumption: New Economics, Socio-technical Transitions and Social Practices (2013). He is the author of a forthcoming textbook due to be published by Polity Press in late-2020 entitled Short Introductions: Sustainability. Cohen received his PhD. in regional science from the University of Pennsylvania in 1993.