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Professor Daniel Nyberg is Professor of Sustainability in the School of Business, Faculty of Business, Economics and Law, at the University of Queensland. He also serves as Director of PRME. Nyberg's research focuses on the politics of climate change, exploring links between climate change and corporate capitalism, corporate political activities, and their impacts on democracy. As a qualitative researcher, he employs an interdisciplinary approach to examine how corporations, governments, and citizens negotiate priorities in response to climate challenges and threats to democratic processes. His work addresses corporate mitigation and adaptation strategies, greenwashing, and hegemony in fossil fuel industries, particularly in contexts like the Great Barrier Reef.

Nyberg has co-authored influential books, including Climate Change, Capitalism, and Corporations: Processes of Creative Self-Destruction (Cambridge University Press, 2015) and Organising Responses to Climate Change: The Politics of Mitigation, Adaptation and Suffering (Cambridge University Press, 2022). His highly cited articles include An Inconvenient Truth: How Organizations Translate Climate Change into Business as Usual (Academy of Management Journal, 2017, with C. Wright; over 1,000 citations), Hippies on the Third Floor: Climate Change, Narrative Identity and the Micro-Politics of Corporate Environmentalism (Organization Studies, 2012), and Climate-Proofing Management Research (Academy of Management Perspectives, 2022). Recent publications feature Confronting the Climate Crisis: Fossil Fuel Hegemony and the Need for Decarbonization, Degrowth, and Democracy (Journal of Management Studies, 2025), Corporations and Climate Change: An Overview (Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Climate Change, 2024), and Defending Hegemony: From Climate Change Mitigation to Adaptation on the Great Barrier Reef (Organization, 2024). Nyberg leads Australian Research Council Discovery Projects, such as Business and Democracy: Power, Profit and Participation (2024-2027) and About Time: Climate Change Adaptation in Australian Industries (2023-2025). He contributes to the Sustainable Business Research Hub, advancing corporate sustainability and climate resilience. Nyberg supervises PhD research on climate adaptation and serves as a media expert on corporate climate responses.