[2] His professional field encompasses model-based future studies, scenario analysis, system dynamics, sustainability, climate, energy and ecological economics.

[7] In 2016, he was appointed as Honorary Professor, Fudan Institute for Advanced Study in Social Science, Shanghai.

In 2019, Randers was appointed as the inaugural co-chair of the Ecological Civilization Center at Peking University's Research Institute of Xi Jinping Thought on Socialism with Chinese Characteristics for a New Era.

Between 1989 and 1991, he served as managing director of World City AS, a financial holding company based in Oslo.

In addition, he has served as a director of:[12] Jorgen has also served as a member of various advisory boards and not-for-profit councils,[12] including: In the year 2005-06 he led the Norwegian Commission on Low Emissions, which "presented a report demonstrating how Norway could reduce her greenhouse gas emissions by ⅔ by 2050".