Dr Christian Schott is Associate Professor in Management for Sustainability at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington in Aotearoa New Zealand. His research interests include the impacts of tourism, sustainability, climate change, education for sustainability, and VR and education. Christian is Director of the Principles of Responsible Management Education at WSBG and leads a trans-disciplinary project harnessing virtual reality technology to foster experiential education about sustainability, which was awarded the Gold Award Sustainability at the prestigious QS-Wharton 2020/21 Reimagine Education Awards. Christian has been invited to speak at the New Zealand Parliament about Sustainable and Regenerative Tourism, published in high impact tourism and education journals, serves as Associate Editor for Frontiers in Sustainable Tourism, and received the ‘Research Article of the Year 2018 Award’ in the highly ranked journal Tourism Recreation Research (with Sochea Nhem). In 2022, Christian was awarded the Te Whatu Kairangi | Aotearoa New Zealand National Tertiary Educator Award.