Netherlands
Ir Marcel den Hollander is lead researcher at the Delft University of Technology (since 2012) for the
‘Products That Last’ project. His research is aimed at determining the critical success factors in business models of companies that successfully promote and produce longer lasting products.
Trained as an industrial designer at that same university, he has worked for over twenty years in industrial design for major national and international clients. The spectrum of design projects he has been involved in ranges from food packaging, durable consumer goods and retail design to industrial equipment and logistic systems.
His long standing interest in sustainable design, combined with the changing landscape of business and industrial design has led him into the field of design research in order to explore the options for integrating commercial industrial design and sustainable design in a meaningful way.
Maarten Ten Houten, Sustainability Manager, Global Commerce, Heineken, The Netherlands
Maarten started work in 1992 at the IVAM Environmental Research in Amsterdam where he did studies on EcoDesign, environmental and financial feasibility assessments of product and product systems.
In 1995 he joined the Productcentrum of TNO he here managed projects on sustainable innovations, EcoDesign and environmental & financial assessments.
From 2001 to 2007 he has worked for the Sustainability Centres of Philips Consumer Electronics as Senior Sustainability Advisor. Main topics at work were strategic advising & policy making, implementation of ecodesign, benchmarking, green marketing and sustainability awards, chemical management over the supply chain.
Since September 2007 he has transferred to Philips Lighting product division where he holds a similar position, as Sustainability Director. Working on EcoDesign, Chemicals, Carbon Footprinting, green sales, green portfolio & product management.
In 2011 Maarten joined Heineken as Global Commerce Sustainability Manager, global responsible for 6 work streams in “Brewing a Better Future” Program: Green Packaging. Green Cooling, Green Distribution, Responsible Consumption, Green Activation and Carbon Footprint modelling.
Søren Femmer Jensen, Director, Co-Creative, Denmark
Søren Femmer Jensen is a consultant and entrepreneur specialised within the fields of sustainable and social innovation. He has worked with sustainable projects and creative startups in Scandinavia and internationally for the last decade dedicated to developing and communicating initiatives and businesses that make a difference.
Søren is the founder of Copenhagen based strategic design company Co·Creative (cocreative.com) that uses creative methods and people-centred processes to enable interdisciplinary collaboration - developing and communicating solutions for tomorrow’s society.
Søren has managed projects and start ups with a special focus on sustainable innovation within the fields of architecture, design and city development, among other things being co-founder of Denmark’s largest creative work collective Republikken (republikken.net). He is also part of the architecture joint venture Biotopos (biotopos.dk) that develops sustainable landscapes bringing vibrant new life to outdoor areas for businesses and public clients.
Previously to starting his own company Søren worked as an advisor and strategy consultant in a leading environmental communication agency, serving corporate clients as well as developing public communication campaigns for the EU and the Danish Government.
Today Søren has residence at ‘Bright Green Island’ Bornholm in the Baltic Sea, and works as an advisor and social entrepreneur in the co-development of one of Northern Europes’ leading innovative areas for sustainable and social innovation. Søren has a Masters degree in International Marketing &
Management from Copenhagen Business School (DK).
Nino David Jordan, Junior Research Fellow, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany
Nino David Jordan works at the Wuppertal Institute within the research group "Sustainable Production and Consumption" as a junior research fellow. He studied in Bremen and Buenos Aires and holds a B.A. in Political Science and a M.A. in International Relations. His main research interests comprise the political economy of resource consumption and environmental policy.
Jan Schipull Kauschen, PhD-student, Architect MAA, Dipl.-Ing.
Arch. (TU), Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, School of Architecture, Centre for Industrialised Architecture (CINARK) and JJW Arkitekter, Denmark
Jan is a PhD. student at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Schools of Architecture, Design and Conservation (RDAFA) in Copenhagen, Denmark. Jan joined the Academy’s research centre CINARK Centre for Industrialised Architecture - to start his PhD. project ”Sustainable Integrated Product Deliveries in Renovation and New Building Construction” in 2010. The PhD. project is a collaboration between RDAFA and JJW architects (Copenhagen) and is part of the SYSBYG research network.
SYSBYG was founded in 2009 by DTU Management, RDAFA (CINARK) and Arkitektskolen Aarhus.
Currently five PhD. students are part of the network, researching into different aspects of Integrated Product Deliveries in the construction sector.
Before his PhD. studies, Jan has worked as an architect in different fields, ranging from renovation to bridge design and in various scales, at different architectural firms in Germany and Denmark.
Jan has a degree in architecture (Dipl.-Ing.) from the Technical University in Darmstadt in 2005, leaving him with a great interest for sustainable architecture and materials. In 2011 Jan was educated as a consultant for the DGNB International building sustainability assessment system.
Wouter Kersten, Manager Research and Innovation, Netherlands
Wouter (1972) is employed at Enviu as manager Research & Innovation. Enviu starts innovative sustainable businesses (‘world changing companies’) and uses this experience to support others in their efforts as well, from start ups to Multinationals.
He was one of the first three employees when this non-profit organisation started in 2005. Before that has was heavily involved as a volunteer in setting it up (2004). His work at Enviu represented a clear career switch: he had previously worked 5 years in telecommunications consultancy and in 2002 decide to head into a new direction by doing a 1-year full time Master in Environmental Policy. On top of his first studies of Industrial Engineering and Management (Technische Bedrijfskunde) this laid the foundation for a new career in the area of sustainable entrepreneurship and innovation.
Thanks to the specific combination of interests and studies, Wouter is able to continuously create links and combine structure, contents and ‘thinking differently’. In that capacity he also enjoys very much to facilitate others in these processes. This was one of the reasons why since April this year he was asked to work at the Delft University of Technology as well, to facilitate researchers to get articles published in journals, and to identify links and synergies between the University and the work of Enviu.
Manfred Krautter, Director, EcoAid, Germany
Manfred Krautter is head and owner of the consultancy EcoAid, founded in 2009. He works with prominent businesses, media, NGOs and governmental institutions. He features regularly on TV, in print and online media and is frequently invited to speak at international conferences.
A longstanding leader of Greenpeace campaigns, he has wide experience in environmental and consumer protection issues. He heads a high profile and interdisciplinary expert network and is in close touch with numerous decision makers.
Manfred Krautter, a graduate engineer in chemistry has worked in Germany, the USA, China, Vietnam, South Africa and several European countries. Further, he is the author of numerous publications and was awarded the Almeria Prize for sustainable agriculture. Born in 1962 he now lives in his adopted home city of Wiesbaden in Germany.
Markus Kretschmer, Professor of Product Design and Design Management at the University of Applied Sciences, Austria
Markus is guest lecturer at international universities and teaches history and theory of design, design strategy, design management and also supervises design projects. His research interests focus on strategic design, the management of design in innovation processes and design as a driver of sustainable innovation.
Before his academic career he worked as a strategic designer in industry, where he gained wide experience in a multitude of design projects ranging from conceptual to strategic design and Design management. As a trained and practicing designer he currently also provides strategic design consulting.
Malin Kronqvist, Project Manager, Sustainable Solutions Innventia AB, Sweden
Malin Kronqvist is a Project Manager in the Sustainable Solutions Group at Innventia, a specialist research and development company servicing the forest industries and the supply chains for packaging, printing & publishing and paper & board. She has over five years of experience in delivering environmental and sustainability research and consultancy projects within this sector.
Her key areas of expertise include: Environmental and sustainability assessment of packaging value chain, printed media and innovative bio-based materials; Environmental metrics and ratios; and life cycle (LCA) assessment and carbon footprinting.
Malin is an experienced LCA practitioner, having participated in a number of comprehensive studies.
Projects include: Life cycle inventory and carbon footprint study for the European kraft paper and paper sack supply chains and LCA of Swedish magazines and online publications. She is also a key member of the MINT project team, an ongoing initiative developing key sustainability performance metrics for benchmarking within the Swedish newspaper printing sector.
Malin has an MSc in Environmental Chemical Engineering. She is fluent in both Swedish and English.
Michael Kuhndt, Head UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP), Germany
Michael Kuhndt is the Head of the UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production (CSCP). As head of the CSCP, he coordinates the Centre’s contribution towards the Marrakech process for implementing the 10-Year Framework of Programmes for Sustainable Consumption and Production. This involves consulting governments and international organisations on Sustainable Consumption and Production (SCP) and CSR policies. He presently directs projects in the fields of SCP and poverty reduction, total risk performance assessment and management, Corporate Social Responsibility and reporting, technology assessment, triple bottom line innovation management, sustainable consumption, product stewardship and the design of strategies based on multi-stakeholder approaches at company, product chain and sector level.
He has worked with or for a variety of organisations including UNEP, UNIDO, Worldbank, ILO, the European Commission, InWent, GTZ, the Global Reporting Initiative, the Global e-Sustainability Initiative and various other sector associations. Furthermore he work for different multinational companies, examples are: Barclays Bank, Canon, EMI, Hewlett Packard, Philip Morris, Matsushita and Motorola.
Michael Kuhndt studied chemical engineering and environmental management and policy in Germany, and Sweden. After gaining professional experience in the development and application of
environmental and social information for management decisions at a German Bank and in the automobile sector, he worked for the European Commission for two years on linking environmental information demand and supply in industry and science. He was a senior consultant within the
"Sustainable Production and Consumption Department" at the Wuppertal Institute and a permanent consultant at United Nations Environment Programme within the "Sustainable Consumption and Production" unit. He is founding director of triple innova, one of the leading German CSR research centre.
Rebecka Lannsjö, MSc, Industrial Design Engineering, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
Rebecka obtained her MSc in Industrial Design Engineering from Chalmers University of Technology 2012. As a member of Unitech International she conduced part of her studies at Politecnico di Milano and an internship at Schott AG, both in Italy. Her MSc project was conducted at Electrolux Industrial Design Centre, Sweden and Italy, in the field of Design for Sustainable Behaviour. Rebecka Lannsjö is now looking for job opportunities within user centred product development.
Bas de Leeuw, Managing Director, World Resources Forum (WRF), Switzerland
Bas de Leeuw is Managing Director of the World Resources Forum (WRF), based in Switzerland.
Before joining the WRF in 2011 he was Executive Director of the Donella Meadows Institute, based in Vermont, USA.
Bas has been a diplomat for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), in Paris, France, from 1998 to 2009, where he set up and managed a number of global initiatives, such as the Sustainable Consumption Program, the Marrakech Process on Sustainable Consumption and Production, the International Life Cycle Panel, and the International Resource Panel. He served as Head Strategy Unit respectively Head Integrated Resource Management, and was Head of the Secretariat of both the Life Cycle Panel and the Resource Panel. He also set up the UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production and represented UNEP in its Board.
Bas has also worked as a national expert for the OECD, for which he drafted a policy document on sustainable consumption policies.
Bas de Leeuw is a Dutch economist from the Rotterdam Erasmus University and has held various positions in the Dutch government (Ministry of Economic Affairs respectively Ministry of Housing, Spatial Planning and Environment) between 1985 and 1991.
Dr Harry Lehmann, General Director, Division – Environmental Planning & Sustainability Strategies, Federal Environmental Agency (UBA), Germany
Dr Lehmann has been a member of the climate board of the IBA Hamburg since 2008 and co-founder of the “Energy Watch Group” and chairman of the scientific board since 2007. He is a member of the scientific board of the “Solar Institute” of the Polytechnic of Aachen, Dpt. Jülich and of the scientific board of the “Umweltforschungszentrum Leipzig-Halle” and has been chairman since 2010. He lectures “Renewable energy technologies” at the University Lüneburg. He is General Director at the Federal Environmental Agency of Germany, Dessau, Head of Division Environmental Planning and Sustainable Strategies and has been a Member of the “Factor 10/X Club“ for resource productivity and sustainable use of natural resources, being President since.
Kristin Leismann, Project Co-ordinator, Faktor 10, Institut Für Nachhaltiges Wirtschaften Gemeinnützige GmbH, Germany
Kristin studies sociology, psychology and european ethnology at the Phlipps-University of Marburg and the Université Nancy 2 of Nancy, France. In 2011 she came 2011 from the Wuppertal Institute as a research assistant to the Faktor 10 – Institut für nachhaltiges Wirtschaft gGmbH. She specializes in the analysis of sustainable living and consumption styles, the strategy of sufficiency and sustainable economic and production methods. She is currently working on the topics of sustainability innovations in Living Labs, as well as projects related to resource efficiency. She is also involved in the
methodic-team for the Deutscher Nachhaltigkeitspreis 2012 and participated in consultations and research projects on sustainable consumption and lifestyle issues.
Besides her work on the Faktor 10 – Institut gGmbH she works as a consultant for the Trifolium - Beratungsgesellschaft mbH, where she participates in the development of a consulting-tool for resource efficiency through cooperation in the value chain of manufacturing companies. Her main research areas of are consumer and lifestyle research, research to user-integrated innovation processes, collaborative consumption, (targeted) instruments and policies to promote sustainable consumption patterns (focus clothing and food), post-growth society, resources and sustainability management, and sustainability communications.
Michael Lettenmeier, Consultant, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy, Germany
Michael Lettenmeier has 20 years experience as a consultant, researcher and trainer in the fields of sustainable lifestyles, resource efficiency and waste prevention. He founded his own company D-mat ltd. in 2003 and joined the research group Sustainable Production and Consumption of the Wuppertal Institute in 2008. Recently he has been involved in several projects on the natural resource use of households and how companies, politicians and households can take advantage of bringing it down to a sustainable level.
Marinella Levi, Full Professor, Materials Science and Technology, Politecnico di Milano - Chemistry, Material and Chemical Engineering Department “Giulio Natta”, Italy
Marinella Levi is a Full Professor at the Design School of Politecnico di Milano, where since 1997 she has taught in numerous specialised courses and workshops, in Science and Technology of Materials.
For many years, she promotes and coordinates research aimed at promoting the culture of materials design, with particular regard to the design and characterization of new polymeric and hybrid materials, and specifically to sustainable development, and the relationship between materials, technology and sensuality. She is co-author of over 100 works in print, national and international journals.
Dr. Christa Liedtke, Director of Research Group “Sustainable Production and Consumption”, Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment, Energy, Germany
Christa studied biology and evangelic theology at the University Gesamthochschule Essen and Rheinischen Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn from 1983 -1990, she received a degree in biology, Ph.D (Dr. rer. nat.) at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität, Bonn in 1993. Since 2003 she was Director of the research group Sustainable Production and Consumption at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy and since August 2012 she has been a visiting Professor for Sustainability Research in Design at the Folkwang University of the Arts in Essen. Her professional expertise is concepts and strategies for sustainable management of production (Focus:
B2B, B2C) and consumption patterns (Focus: Households, C2B, C2C), governance structures for production and consumption, change of mindsets and value orientations, sustainability assessment along the product chain, sustainability potentials of players and areas of need, resource efficiency and employment, responsibility for sustainability within global chains of products and services.
Marcus Linder, PhD student, Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden
His interests lie at the intersection of business strategies for the creation and appropriation of common or public value and environmental sustainability. He works within the fields of strategic management and innovation management. His previous research includes work on the business case for environmental sustainability for small environmental technology firms, the relation between Williamson's suggested levels of economic institutions and common strategies used by firms to increase revenues from 'green' offers, as well as several in-depth case studies of managerial identification and formulation of valuable environmental problems in MNCs intent on developing
environmental innovations. He is currently employed as a PhD student at the Center for Business Innovation at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden.
Christian Loewe, Senior Expert, Federal Environment Agency (UBA), Germany
Christian Loewe holds a diploma in Forest Sciences and certificates in environmental management and environmental sociology. He works for the Federal Environment Agency (UBA) of Germany since 1993. He is senior expert in the field of SCP/IPP policy development. He is involved as an expert in the international Marrakech Process and coordinates the national dialogue process on SCP in Germany. He also supports the current work of the European Topic Centre on SCP in the fields of integrated policy assessment and stakeholder approaches, like retailer, civil society organizations. His personal interest lies in the question on how to better integrate socio-ecological issues into practical environmental policy making and to strengthen the role of social innovation towards a green economy.
Cathrine Löfgren, Project Manager – Sustainable Solutions, Innventia AB, Sweden
Cathrine Lofgren is a Project Manager in the Sustainable Solutions Group at Innventia, a specialist research and development company servicing the forest industries and the supply chains for packaging, printing & publishing and paper & board. She has over fifteen years of experience in delivering environmental and sustainability research and consultancy projects within this sector.
Her key areas of expertise include: Environmental and sustainability assessment of packaging value chain; and life cycle assessment (LCA); packaging legislation; and packaging and environmental standards.
Cathrine is an experienced LCA practitioner, having participated in a number of comprehensive studies. Projects include: Life cycle assessment of milk and juice including their packaging; Life cycle inventory and carbon footprint study for the European kraft paper and paper sack supply chains and LCA of Swedish magazines and online publications.
She is currently Project leader of the Swedish Industry & Trade Group Miljöpack (special interest group focused on environment and sustainability issues for packaging and packaged products).
Cathrine is fluent in both Swedish and English and has an MSc.
Victor Martinez, Postgraduate Researcher, Centre for Design Research, School of Design, Northumbria University, UK
Victor is a Car Designer with wide experience in the transportation sector. He has participated in projects for world-class automotive companies in Europe, Asia and the Americas. He founded vgmtheory creative platform and design collective G-LED (Laboratorio Experimental de Diseño). He has taught Industrial Design at Tecnologico de Monterrey campus Queretaro, Mexico (2005-2011);
where he was also head of the new biodegradable materials research group and the alternative mobility project. Currently in the first year of his PhD at the School of Design from Northumbria University.
Ângela Maria Marx, PhD student, Industrial Engineering, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil
Ângela has a multidisciplinary background, which includes BA in Social Communications (2000), a Specialization in Graphic Design (2003) and a Masters degree in Industrial Engineering (2009), with emphasis in Product Development and Sustainability. Currently, she is PhD student in the Industrial Engineering program at Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul/Brazil, conducting a research focused on social sustainability, co-participation and territory development.
Dr Patrick McLaughlin, Senior Lecturer, Cranfield University, Manufacturing and Materials Department, UK
Dr Patrick McLaughlin is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers and the Institution of Engineering and Technology. He has an MSc in Industrial Engineering and Production Management and a Doctorate in Business Administration, both from Cranfield University.
In a career that spans manufacturing engineer, manager and director, he has worked in both multinational and SME businesses. Experience with a range of manufacturing processes and working
In a career that spans manufacturing engineer, manager and director, he has worked in both multinational and SME businesses. Experience with a range of manufacturing processes and working