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Developing Solutions - systems, playing fields and actions
I am a senior expert holding several roles contributing to innovate global and local solutions and playing fields to enable greater societal sustainability, linked to the benefits and challenges of plastics while using, recovering and managing them.
Today, I am the Sustainability Lead at the World Plastics Council, an industry associations representing the interest of the global plastics maker industry to build playing fields, enabling the circularity of plastics and stopping the mismanagement of plastics waste on global level. At the same time I am the Relationship & Project Manager at Covestro for key sustainable solution partnerships such as the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, the Solar Impulse Foundation and due to my past experience I am advising on NGO relations.
My roles and knowledge today are based of past 10 years in the field of plastics waste leakage and sustainable consumerism (kicked of by my second thesis in 2009/2010) contributing to policy, product/service and programme development in Europe and on global level, during which I enjoyed working in different large and small organisations, countries and using very diverse approaches.
I was the Senior Advisor at Solar Impulse Foundation, hands-on co-developing a new clean-tech platform "The World Alliance for Efficient Solutions", creating its Expert Network in particular. From 03.2013 - 07.2017, I was leading the Marine Litter Solutions programme at PlasticsEurope, overlooking, coordinating, supporting and implementing a broad set of initiatives e.g. Operation Clean Sweep, PolyTalk 2016 , MARLISCO and BIOCLEAN, addressing the prevention of marine litter and microplastics through better waste management, mindfully designed products and responsible human behavior. Privately I was engaged in and/or co-founded innovation communities and actions contributing to marine litter prevention like the Clean Urban Delta Initiative for Rio De Janeiro, Marine Litter News, Floating Horizon and Ocean Collaboration Platform.
The foundation of my approach (blending strategic system thinking with practical solution development) is based on a five years innovation management period (2006-2011) in which I co-developed a cascaded, new market innovation approach from future scenario studies, to immersive solution development and their production incl. business modelling and license out. Results were several award winning products, a new Designers' Platform, a design-driven-innovation service incl. design awards, student projects & material consulting for professional firms. Our approach got mentioned in the book "Design Driven Innovation" by Roberto Verganti, 2009.
I started my career in 1996, working for global companies like Philips, Henkel KGaA and MANNESMANN DEMAG Energy & Environmental Technologies in Germany and Hong-Kong.
I hold a University degree in mechanical engineering and a degree in design (service design, design for manufacturing, productions technologies).
Today, I am the Sustainability Lead at the World Plastics Council, an industry associations representing the interest of the global plastics maker industry to build playing fields, enabling the circularity of plastics and stopping the mismanagement of plastics waste on global level. At the same time I am the Relationship & Project Manager at Covestro for key sustainable solution partnerships such as the Alliance to End Plastic Waste, the Solar Impulse Foundation and due to my past experience I am advising on NGO relations.
My roles and knowledge today are based of past 10 years in the field of plastics waste leakage and sustainable consumerism (kicked of by my second thesis in 2009/2010) contributing to policy, product/service and programme development in Europe and on global level, during which I enjoyed working in different large and small organisations, countries and using very diverse approaches.
I was the Senior Advisor at Solar Impulse Foundation, hands-on co-developing a new clean-tech platform "The World Alliance for Efficient Solutions", creating its Expert Network in particular. From 03.2013 - 07.2017, I was leading the Marine Litter Solutions programme at PlasticsEurope, overlooking, coordinating, supporting and implementing a broad set of initiatives e.g. Operation Clean Sweep, PolyTalk 2016 , MARLISCO and BIOCLEAN, addressing the prevention of marine litter and microplastics through better waste management, mindfully designed products and responsible human behavior. Privately I was engaged in and/or co-founded innovation communities and actions contributing to marine litter prevention like the Clean Urban Delta Initiative for Rio De Janeiro, Marine Litter News, Floating Horizon and Ocean Collaboration Platform.
The foundation of my approach (blending strategic system thinking with practical solution development) is based on a five years innovation management period (2006-2011) in which I co-developed a cascaded, new market innovation approach from future scenario studies, to immersive solution development and their production incl. business modelling and license out. Results were several award winning products, a new Designers' Platform, a design-driven-innovation service incl. design awards, student projects & material consulting for professional firms. Our approach got mentioned in the book "Design Driven Innovation" by Roberto Verganti, 2009.
I started my career in 1996, working for global companies like Philips, Henkel KGaA and MANNESMANN DEMAG Energy & Environmental Technologies in Germany and Hong-Kong.
I hold a University degree in mechanical engineering and a degree in design (service design, design for manufacturing, productions technologies).