Han Brezet (1951) is Research Director of the Faculty and DfS (Design for Sustainability) Professor.
He holds a MSc in Electrical Engineering from TU Delft, where he graduated in 1977 on the issue of integration of WindPower in the grid. After the co-creation of the Erasmus’ Environmental Sciences Institute (ESM), he completed his PhD in energy innovation at the Erasmus University in Rotterdam.
He held several jobs in industry and became director of the Institute of Environmental Economics
(TME), before returning to TU Delft. Since 1992 he is tenure professor in sustainable product design at the IDE Faculty, where he has established the DfS programme. In cooperation with UNEP Paris and companies like Philips, the program was among the first in the world in the area of life cycle oriented Applied Ecodesign: the development of useful products with carbonization, toxification and de-materialization as co-drivers. Among the outputs are ca. 30 doctoral dissertations and a few hundred MSc theses. Today, the programme includes concepts and themes like product-services systems, energy-efficient and renewable energy based products, natural materials’ based products and product design for emerging markets.
Göran Broman, Professor, Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden
Professor Broman is Director of the Sustainability-Driven Innovation Group and Director of the Center for Sustainable Product-Service System Innovation at Blekinge Institute of Technology, Karlskrona, Sweden. He holds a doctoral degree in mechanical engineering from Lund University. Parallel to his engineering education he has undertaken extensive studies in ecology, economy, resource theory, leadership and other subjects relevant to his passion in sustainability and he has been instrumental in the development of a framework for strategic sustainable development. Professor Broman is active in a broad range of areas, reaching from strategic sustainable development over product-service system innovation to engineering and simulation-driven design. Professor Broman leads a team that develops methodology and combines competences within these areas with the uniting purpose of creating capacity in business and society for sustainable innovation. The work is performed in an action research mode with business and societal partners.
Doris Zwicker Bucci, Professor Dr., Universidade Regional de Blumenau (FURB), Departamento de Engenharia de Produção, Brazil
Graduated in Chemical Engineering and Specialization in Science at University of Blumenau (Brazil) and Master's degree in Production Engineering at Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) (2003).
PhD in Mechanical Engineering at Federal University of Santa Catarina (Brazil) (2010).
More than fifteen years experience as a Chemical Engineer in companies related to textile, metallurgical and food. Researcher during 10 years in the field of food products and packaging development at the department of R&D at Bunge Foods.
She has been Professor at University of Blumenau since 1982. Teacher on undergraduate courses such as Design, Production Engineering, Chemical Engineering and Electrical Engineering and Bachelor of Chemistry as well as at Master Degree programs in Environmental Engineering and Bachelor of Chemistry at FURB, acting as advisor of research with sustainable materials.
She is a member of the research group GEPPS (Group of Engineering of the Product Process and Services) (Brazil) since 2005 and has held positions as head of the Department of Production Engineering(FURB) and Design and coordinator of the course of Production Engineering (FURB) Doris has acted as an advisor in research and studies on the following themes: biodegradation, biodegradable plastics and composites (PHB, PLA ....), packaging, food, environment, recycling, ecodesign, product and packaging development, project management and sustainable product and packaging development process.
Published and presented several papers in national and international conferences, also an author of a book and a book chapter.
Martin Charter, Director, The Centre for Sustainable Design, University for the Creative Arts, UK
Martin has worked at director level on business sustainability issues in consultancy, leisure, publishing, training, events and research for over 24 years. Prior to this he held in a range of management positions in strategy, research and marketing in gardening, building products, trade exhibitions, financial services and consultancy including Save & Prosper Group, Reed International, Creative Marketing Group and Kiveton Park (Holdings) Ltd. Martin was the launch Director of Greenleaf Publishing, Marketing Director at the Earth Centre, former director of business networks focused on sustainable business, green electronics and eco-innovation. Martin was the founding editor
of the Journal of Sustainable Product Design, The Green Management Letter and Greener Management International (GMI) and is presently a member of the Editorial Boards of GMI, International Journals of Sustainable Engineering and Sustainable Design. Martin has been a member of international/national/regional advisory boards covering green electronics, environmental technology, sustainability reporting & sustainable innovation (e.g. for P&G and InterfaceFlor in Europe). Presently, he sits on the expert boards of the EC Eco-Innovation Observatory and the World Resources Forum. Martin is presently convenor of ISO 14006 (eco-design management systems) and was the previous UK expert to both ISO and BSI groups on ISO TR 14062 (eco-design). Martin is the producer and organiser of the ‘Sustainable Innovation’ international conference series that is its 16th year. He is a regular international conference speaker and author and editor of various books and publications including Greener Marketing (1992 and 1999), The Green Management Gurus [e-book]
(1996), Managing Eco-design (1997), Sustainable Solutions (2001) and System Innovation for Sustainability (2008). Martin has an MBA from Aston Business School (UK) and postgraduate diploma in marketing. Martin attended The Earth Summit in Rio in 1992.
Garrette Clark, Programme Officer, Business and Industry Unit, United Nations Environment Programme, France
Garrette Clark is a Programme Officer with the Business and Industry Unit in the Sustainable Consumption and Production Branch of the Division of Industry, Technology and Economics at UNEP.
Her expertise lies in cleaner production, sustainable product development and business outreach.
Garrette is managing the 3 year EC supported Resource Efficiency and Eco-Innovation in Developing and Transition Countries project. This 4 million euro project, which targets developing countries, will build on national resource efficiency capacities and enhance them to cover eco-innovation capacity building - in technical and policy terms. She has worked with the joint UNIDO UNEP National Cleaner Production Centres (NCPCs) Programme and leads capacity building in cleaner production related topics including cleaner production and design for sustainability. In the area of Design for Sustainability (D4S), she has authored and produced publications for NCPCs and on Product Services Systems. Within the EC project a key policy link will be with sustainable public procurement efforts - the key being that no matter how ‘sustainable’ a product is – it doesn’t make a difference if no one buys it. Previously working with UNEP, Garrette worked in the United States Environmental Protection Agency. She has a Masters in Public Policy from University of California.
Richard Coles, Associate Lecturer, The Open University, Designing for a Sustainable Future, UK
Richard is an Associate in Packaging for Postgraduate Food Education & Industrial Training Programmes at the Natural Resources Institute (NRI), University of Greenwich, Co-editor and contribution author for 2nd edition of a book entitled “Food and Beverage Packaging Technology”
published by Wiley-Blackwell (2011), author of “Paper and Paperboard Packaging” for a forthcoming book entitled “The Future of Packaging” to be published by Woodhead and member of the UK Institute of Materials’ Packaging Society.
Richard has over 25 years experience in the agri-food packaging industries having conducted industrial and academic R&D with Metal Box/Nampak (SA) Ltd., Tetra Pak, The Institute of Grocery Distribution (IGD) and Syngenta. He has also been a senior lecturer in packaging at the University of Herts. Speaks a little German
Matteo Conti, Senior Lecturer, Centre for Design Research, School of Design, Northumbria University, UK
Matteo has been a senior lecturer in Transportation Design and an industrial placement tutor for the past ten nine years at Northumbria University. During this time he also led the course between 2005 and 2007 before being also involved in the teaching provision of the Design for Industry course. This Italian bi-lingual academic has been creating various successful industrial partnerships with prestigious design consultancies (Concept Group International, Drive, Iveco, Jaguar, Pininfarina, Stile Bertone, and Visteon) over the years to carry out collaborative projects and secure student placements.
Nele D’Haese , Researcher, VITO, Belgium
Nele did doctoral research at the Dutch Research Institute for Transitions (DRIFT) at the University of Rotterdam on the influence of the geographic proximity of petrochemical clusters on the development of a biobased industry in four port regions in the Rhine-Scheldt Delta, i.e. the ports of Antwerp, Ghent, Rotterdam and Terneuzen. She intends to defend her PhD thesis by the end of 2012. Since mid 2011, Nele works as a researcher at VITO on topics related to the broad field of sustainable resource management. She conducts background studies and policy analyses on subjects such as product-service systems, the development of a biobased economy and closing (biobased) material loops. In addition to this, she also develops tools to assess innovation projects and organisations supporting innovation.
Trevor Davis, Futurist, IBM, UK
As a teenager, Trevor Davis would ride his bike any distance to find a rare comic book or a cool jacket. Born with an innate curiosity, it is no wonder he has ended up as a Global Strategy Consultant at IBM.
But that’s not to say his career path has been linear. After a stint as a fashion model in the 1970s, Trevor set out to become a pilot. However, the oil crisis forced him to rethink his mission. He found his calling in the Department of Metallurgy at the University of Aston, where he was drawn to a unique alchemy of hard science and industrial arts. His experience there inspired him to devote his life to designing and making things that make the world a better place.
While at University, British Leyland, the UK car manufacturer with a troubled history, sponsored Trevor’s research and spurred on his interest in the potential of science and technology for a sustainable future. Trevor is a self-proclaimed pragmatic optimist and after receiving a first-class honours degree and a Ph.d, he dedicated himself to sustainability projects. To this day his doctoral work continues to save the world millions of barrels of oil.
In the 1980s Trevor jumped at the opportunity to work with the Aluminum Company of Canada on the Space Shuttle and the International Space Station. To this day he still believes that “we need to get off the rock in the long term,” but he says he’ll settle for a Smarter Planet in the meantime.
Trevor works exclusively with Consumer Products (CP) and Retail companies such as Unilever, P&G, Mars, BAT, Kraft, Nestlé, Diageo, Heineken, and Boots. His current role at IBM requires him to travel the world advising CP companies on how to approach innovation as a growth strategy. Trevor is one of the lead authors for IBM’s Future of Consumer Products whitepaper and a contributor to the ground-breaking book “The Future of Innovation”(published by Gower).
Wim Debacker, Researcher, VITO, Belgium
Wim finished his PhD in February 2009 at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel in the field of structural design and life cycle assessment (LCA) of temporary buildings and their components. Since mid 2009 he works as a researcher at VITO in the broad field of “sustainable building and living”. Currently, he is responsible for several life cycle assessment (LCA) studies on buildings and building components, as well as the assessment of innovative building concepts. These studies are commissioned by federal and regional governments and also by building professionals. Besides, he is a member of some working and steering committees promoting transition to a sustainable building environment.
Johannes Dietrich, Technische Universität Berlin, Science Shop Kubus, Germany
Johannes Dietrich degreed as engineer for renewable energy systems and as adult educator. Since 2009 he works as scientific staff at Technische Universität Berlin (TUB), Centre for Scientific Continuing Education and Co-operation/ Co-operation and Consulting for Environmental Questions (Science Shop kubus). He works with regional enterprise networks like ReUse-Computer e.V. and Netzwerk Großbeerenstraße e.V. in order to improve resource-use through product re-use and material recycling on an industrial level. Mr. Dietrich is involved in the project "Towards Zero Waste in Industrial Networks (ZeroWIN, 2009-2014), which is funded by the European Community. Mr. Dietrich is also supervisor for 18 students´ project laboratories at TUB, that work towards innovative products, training methods and research approaches in the Berlin-Brandenburg region.
Along the way Johannes Dietrich runs the university based Free Shop "Ula".
Cagla Dogan, Assistant Professor, Department Industrial Design, Middle East Technical University, Turkey
Cagla Dogan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Industrial Design at the Middle East Technical University (METU) in Ankara, Turkey. She holds a Ph.D. on product design for sustainability from the Faculty of Environmental Design, University of Calgary, Canada, and a B.ID. and M.Sc. in Industrial Design from METU. Her design-based research is on product design, design education and generative research for sustainability. She has presented at several peer-reviewed international conferences (ICSID, IDSA, EAD, SI, DRS), and her publications include co-authored papers in the Journal of Sustainable Product Design and the International Journal of Product Design.
Bernd Draser, Lecturer, ecosign/Akademie fűr Gestlatung, Germany
For about eight years, Bernd Draser is working as a lecturer of Philosophy and Cultural Studies at ecosign/Akademie für Gestlatung (www.ecosign.net) in Cologne, Germany. The ecosign academy offers unique and innovative full-time courses in sustainable design since 1994, with currently about 250 students enrolled.
For ecosign, Bernd is involved in several projects dealing with sustainable design, such as the Sustainable Summer School that will take place for the 4th time in August/September 2012.
As a philosopher and literature scholar with a focus on cultural studies, Bernd is reading classical texts from the philosophical tradition from Plato to Foucault with his students, but also gives lectures on quaint subjects such as, “Hitchcock and the Analytical Look“, “Islam and Europe“, “Homer‘s Iliad“,
“Rituals and Media“, “Wild Women“, “James Bond and Theseus“, and “The Ends of the World in the Bible and the Movies“. A peculiar question for Bernd is how to think sustainability in a context of cultural history.
Stuart English, Programme Leader, Centre for Design Research, School of Design, Northumbria University, UK
A specialist in design led innovation, Stuart English leads a portfolio of postgraduate programmes at Northumbria University, he is director of Ideas-lab and manages the High Value Low Carbon unit. His work on relational problem framing has initiated new methods, new products and new IP through an inclusive approach based on design led entrepreneurship. This addresses multi and cross-disciplinary contexts bounded by clarity of market objectives, and has led to numerous new companies and filed patents. The concept of multiple perspective problem framing developed by English as part of a PhD by publication provides the foundation for the development of ongoing academic collaboration, new postgraduate curricula, intellectual property and commercial value for business both through contract research and CPD.
Lorenz Erdmann, Research Associate and Project Manager, Fraunhofer Institute for Systems and Innovation Research ISI, Germany
Lorenz Erdmann joined the Fraunhofer-Institute for Systems and Innovation Research (ISI) in October 2011. He works as a senior researcher at the Competence Center Innovation and Technology Management and Foresight. Among his major research topics are sustainability innovations as well as the development and application of foresight methods (e.g. scenarios, roadmapping, future-oriented surveys and dialogues), and their integration into inter- and transdisciplinary research processes (e.g.
combination with methods of industrial ecology and social-ecological research).
Lorenz Erdmann graduated at the Technical University Berlin (Germany) in Environmental Engineering. Afterwards (1999-2011) he worked as research associate and project manager at the Institute for Futures Studies and Technology Assessment (IZT), Berlin. In 2010 he completed a research stay at the Center for Industrial Ecology of Yale University.
Fatemeh Eskandarypur, Responsible Textile Specialist, Textiles for life, UK
A woven textile specialist, Fatemeh launched her career in the textile industry more than 20 years ago after graduating with a BA degree in Fashion/Textiles combined with Business Administration. She has worked with fibre, fabric, garment, home textile manufacturers and retailers and has considered the importance of transparency and communication throughout the supply chain as a prerequisite not only in making responsible choices but also ensuring optimum socio/cultural, ecological, economic and wellbeing viability for both people and the planet.
Her work in the evolvement of fabrics has encompassed both Research & Development in new fibres and technologies, design, CAD, manufacturing, sourcing, product development and marketing globally, as well as Research Associate posts at London College of Fashion. She will also be resuming a PhD research started in 2009 on ‘Responsible Industrial Laundering’ - the ecological, social and economic interrelation between responsible supply chain management and the aftercare of textiles in industrial laundries.
Since 2000, Fatemeh has acted as an independent advisor, consultant and project manager evolving in her setting up Textiles For life (TFL), a forward thinking and hands-on organization whose key specialty includes guiding and implementing practical and naturally profitable turn key programs and strategies for ecological (including organic) and responsible textile processes and product development from source to consumer and back to source. This includes working with the luxury hospitality, spa and wellness sectors to introduce Responsible Luxury textiles into the sector.
A key emphasis of Textiles for life is the continuous development and research in the after-care and after-life of textiles through the principles of ‘Cradle to Cradle’ and the Circular Economy. TFL guides and assists textile manufacturing companies and industrial laundries towards developing and integrating performance related responsible best practice guidelines and cost efficient methodologies into all areas of facility manufacturing, management and operations (including the supply chain)
At Textiles for life, Fatemeh is now instigating and collaborating on partnerships to effectively join forces in driving the principles of the circular economy to empower and enhance all stakeholders in the supply chain process (including the user/client). This involves researching a new way of conducting business by developing and introducing responsible leasing programmes based on circular economy principles (instead of conventional systems of buying and ‘throwawayism’) within the textile sector and other direct and indirect sectors such as, furniture, carpets and white goods (e.g. washing machines).
Professor Klaus Fichter, University of Oldenburg, Germany
Klaus Fichter is the founder and director of the Borderstep Institute for Innovation and Sustainability.
He is Professor for Innovation and Sustainability Management, at the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg and is on the board of directors of the Oldenburg Centre for Sustainability Economics and Management (CENTOS). The emphasis of his research is upon innovation management, eco-entrepreneurship and the creation of sustainable innovations. His particular focus is thereby upon strategic and interactive methods, innovation communities and the entrepreneurial role within the innovation process (entrepreneurship, interpreneurship).
Klaus Fichter studied business administration, entrepreneurship and economics at the University of Bremen. From 1993 to 2000 he was head of the research field “Corporate Environmental Management” at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IOEW) in Berlin. He completed his doctoral thesis in 1998 and his habilitation (qualifying for full professorship) in 2005. From 2005 to 2009 he was Associate Professor and since 2010 he is Professor, Innovation and Sustainability Management, at the Department for Economis, Management and Law at the University of Oldenburg, Germany.
Fernando Antônio Forcellini, Professor Dr., Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina (UFSC), Departamento de Engenharia de Produção, Campus Universitário Trindade, Brazil
Graduated Mechanical Engineer, in 1985, master in 1989 and doctor in 1994 by the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC). Senior Lecturer at Mechanical Engineering Department of UFSC since 1994 to 2006. Nowadays works at the Production Engineering Department of UFSC. He already mentored more than 80 masters and doctors, with more than 250 articles published in national and
international events and journals. He has participated and coordinated cooperative projects with several national and international institutions. Now, he acts as researcher of GEPP – Product and Process Engineering Group and as teacher of the Graduate Programs in Mechanical Engineering and Production Engineering of the Federal University of Santa Catarina.
The works developed by the Group of Engineering of the Product Process and Services (GEPPS) are aimed at developing better explanation and understanding of the strategic importance of product development, as key element for the obtaining of competitiveness and quality of the products and industrial processes. GEPPS acts in the areas of Collaborative Product Development (CPD) in that are studied the application of practices of collaboration in the Products Development Process (PDP).
In the area of Sustainability in Product Development he has studied the application of tools and methods of Eco-efficiency and of Cleaner Production in the context of the business processes of the
In the area of Sustainability in Product Development he has studied the application of tools and methods of Eco-efficiency and of Cleaner Production in the context of the business processes of the