He is Distinguished Professor of Sustainable Development in the School of Public Leadership, University of Stellenbosch, Visiting Professor at the Universities of Sheffield and Utrecht, and Edward P. Bass Visiting Environmental Scholar at Yale University (2018). He is Academic Director of the Sustainability Institute and Co-Director of the Stellenbosch Centre for Complex Systems in Transition (CST).

He is professor of Governance of Urban Transitions and chairs the spatial planning group at Utrecht University with a secondment at TU Darmstadt, Germany. At Utrecht University he leads a transdisciplinary research hub on the governance of urban infrastructure transformations focusing on the nexuses between different infrastructure domains.