Michael Kuhndt is the Head of the CSCP.

 

He is in charge of managing the Centre. At project management level, he presently directs projects in the fields of SCP and poverty reduction, eco-efficiency performance assessment and management, Corporate Social Responsibility and reporting, technology assessment, triple bottom line innovation, sustainable consumption, product stewardship and the design of strategies based on multi-stakeholder approaches at company, product chain and sector level.

 

After gaining professional experience in the development and application of environmental and social information for management decisions at Saturn, General Motors (USA), 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 Programmes within the "Sustainable Production and Consumption" unit. He is founding director of triple innova. He is a member of the Centre of Environmental Science/Leiden University, the Global Reporting Initiative, the Factor 10 Innovation Network and the German Association of Engineers (VDI).

 

Michael Kuhndt studied chemical engineering and environmental management and policy in Germany, Sweden and the USA. He obtained an MSc in Chemical Engineering from the University Dortmund, Germany, and an MSc in Environmental Management and Policy from Lund University, Sweden.

 

Michael Kuhndt is a German national.