The CSCP Team

... 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), Resource Efficiency (RE) and Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) policies.

He presently directs projects in the fields of SCP/RE and poverty reduction, eco-efficiency performance assessment and management, Corporate Social Responsibility and reporting,  SCP indicators, technology assessment, triple bottom line innovation sustainable consumption, product stewardship and the design of SCP/RE 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 works 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, 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.

After gaining professional experience in the development and application of environmental and social information for management decisions at a German Bank and 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 Programme within the "Sustainable Consumption and Production" unit. He was the founding director of triple innova, one of the leading German innovation research centre.

Mr Kuhndt  is a representative of the Working Group on ICT and Sustainable Development of the International Federation for Information Processing (IFIP) and an International Advisory Member at the International Conference on EcoBalance in Tokyo.

Michael Kuhndt is a German national.

From 2000 to 2004, she co-organised the award Prix Charlemagne pour les Médias Européens, in Aachen. From 1989 to 1992 she worked as the Assistant to the Director of the North Rhine-Westphalia InWEnt office (formerly Carl-Duisberg-Gesellschaft).

Gabriele Eigen studied French and Art Education at the University of Wuppertal and holds the 1st state diploma. During her University studies she spent one year in Paris working as an au-pair and studying language at the Sorbonne. After that, she completed two years of practical training in Aachen in order to become a qualified high school teacher (2nd state diploma). In addition, Gabriele Eigen was trained as a personal assistant / bilingual assistant with a final exam at the Chamber of Commerce in Düsseldorf.

Gabriele Eigen is a German national.

The project will deliver a roadmap of change strategies and innovation spaces that address current unsustainable consumption patterns associated with the way we live, move and consume.

In 2010 Cheryl began working with the CSCP as a Senior Consultant on Innovation & Entrepreneurship for Sustainable Consumption and Production.

Cheryl is an experienced business and sustainability professional with 15 years of cross-sector business experience and most recently working with leading multi-national companies on collaborative action projects for sustainable development with The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).  From 2004-2010 Cheryl was the focal point for the WBCSD’s work on sustainable consumption and sustainable finance with contribution to the WBCSD’s 2008-2009 scenarios project, Vision 2050. Cheryl led the WBCSD’s work exploring the relationship between business activities, consumer behavior, individual lifestyles and environmental and social challenges. Cheryl also led the WBCSD-UNEP FI initiative which brought business together directly with financial institutions to accelerate the valuation of sustainability in the capital markets.  In 2001-2004 Cheryl was focused on the health agenda, and a process for dialogue between company executives, medical professionals and hospital administration aimed at the social responsibility of companies related to impacts on health.  From 1995 – 2001 Cheryl held different positions in the areas of sales, marketing, and human resources in various companies and foundations.

Cheryl is Canadian and throughout her career and studies has worked and lived in Australia, Canada, Colombia, France, Mexico, South Korea, and is currently based in Geneva, Switzerland.

...sustainable living. Her expertise lies with resource efficiency, supply chain innovation, product stewardship, corporate responsibility and stakeholder dialogue.  She is furthermore involved in implementation and capacity building with the SWITCH Asia programme for sustainable consumption and production.

Prior to engaging with the CSCP Christina Raab has worked for several years at a German consultancy, where she was responsible for strategy development and project management in the field of sound chemicals management, environmental policies and service-based, innovative business approaches for international private and public clients. Directly after her studies she joined the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation to contribute in the area of Cleaner Production and Chemical Leasing. Christina Raab is experienced in working in developed economies as well as emerging and developing countries in South America, North Africa and South Asia.

Christina Raab holds a doctoral degree in technical chemistry from the Vienna University of Technology and conducted her PhD research in materials chemistry at the University of California at Santa Barbara. Throughout her studies she has lived in the United States, France and Spain.

Christina Raab is an Austrian national.

Prior to joining CSCP in June 2010 Frans was with IVAM UvA B.V. based in Amsterdam (Netherlands) since 1993, and beforehand 2,5 years for the Dutch Ministry of Environment involved in stakeholder-dialogues to define improved structures to reduce industrial waste streams and developing the Dutch national strategy on Cleaner Production.

At IVAM - a private research and consultancy organization in the field of sustainability under a holding-structure of the University of Amsterdam – Frans acted as senior consultant during most of his work period, working mainly in the field of Sustainable Production and Environmentally Sound Technologies; since 1999 he also was head of the department on Sustainable Production and responsible for acquisition and management of most of IVAM’s international projects and from September 2008 he was the managing director.

His work is heavily oriented on capacity building and institutional strengthening of a variety of stakeholders (both in Europe as well as in developing countries) in the field of Sustainable Production (methodologically as well as technically); governmental agencies, research institutes and NGO’s as well as business organizations (individual enterprises and associations).

He is active since 1995 in over 20 countries, with a strong emphasis on Asian countries (China, Mongolia, South-Korea, Indonesia, Sri Lanka) working on assignments for amongst others Dutch and Swiss government, European Commission, UNIDO, UNEP, OECD, AsDB en Worldbank.

Based on this work he has a wealth of experience in the applicability of SCP tools and instruments in different cultural settings and which conditions enable or hamper the effective uptake.

Frans holds BSc in Chemical Engineering from the Technical University Eindhoven (Netherlands) and Chemistry from the University of Amsterdam (Netherlands= and a MSc in Environmental Sciences from the Rijksuniversity Utrecht (Netherlands).

Frans Verspeek is a Dutch national.

... as well as Sustainable Entrepreneurship and Finance. Her focus areas are training programmes and workshops for business and key stakeholders, organisational learning for sustainability and life cycle thinking. The latter encompasses life cycle assessment, closed material cycles and resource efficiency.

Nadine Pratt lectures at the university level on sustainability and has conducted workshops based on participatory and creative techniques, especially World Café with stakeholders from government, business and civil society. She has worked on several projects with MNCs, SMEs and NGOs in the field of sustainable consumption and production, particularly leadership training for sustainability and sustainable entrepreneurship.

Nadine Pratt holds a doctorate degree in economics. She studied at the University of Cologne, Germany and ESADE, Spain. Her doctoral studies she completed at the University Witten/Herdecke, Germany. For her dissertation she spent several months at the department of Peter Senge at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA, conducting research on organisational learning and full system approaches to sustainability.

Nadine Pratt is a German-Haitian national.

She lectures in capacity building training programmes conducted for the intermediary cleaner production institutions of developing countries on tools for environmental management including reporting. She has also conducted seminars on Environmental Management in various universities and business schools.

Burcu Tunçer holds an MSc in Environmental Management and Policy from the International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics (IIIEE, Lund University, Sweden). She previously earned a Masters of Business Administration (MBA) Degree from Bilkent University and an MSc Degree in Environmental Engineering from the Middle East Technical University in Turkey.

Burcu Tunçer is a Turkish national.

Ginnie's been developing the agendas of most of multi-stakeholder Work Studios and honing the expertise of the CSCP in action research processes. She is also very much involved in the areas of sustainable entrepreneurship and resource efficiency and as PhD candidate she’s exploring ways to enhance social innovation through gaming. Thanks to her wide international, cross-sectoral experience, Ginnie developed the tool for allocating, monitoring and evaluating the projects sponsored by the foundation she worked for in the Netherlands in 2006; created the sustainability strategy for the companies she collaborated with in Estonia and became a strategic researcher for an NY based firm while participating as editor of a prime-time aired TV show in Mexico.

Before earning her MSc. Ginnie managed the Sustainability and Social Communications department of a multinational corporation quartered in Mexico City where she developed internal campaigns towards implementation of eco- efficiencies, educational programs and a nation-wide projects aimed to promote awareness on sustainable lifestyles.

Trying to encompass her theoretical learning with hands-on experience, Ginnie majored in Political Science and began her professional career working for AIESEC, having directive roles in Russia, Poland and Mexico – and internationally directing the communications for the Sustainability Drive Team. Ginnie is a graduate of the MSc. program in Strategic Leadership towards Sustainability at BTH in Sweden, where she focused her research on addressing inter-sectoral sustainability challenges through Media driven initiatives.

Ginnie is known as an extremely creative person that firmly believes on the power of cross-sectoral cooperation and its ability to move societies towards a more sustainable future.

Ginnie Guillen is a Mexican national.

...systems based tools, experiential learning, multi-stakeholder interaction and other creative approaches to empower sustainable entrepreneurs and corporate change agents.

Jadwiga has worked as a project manager, an entrepreneurship trainer and facilitator at the CSCP since 2009. She has managed a variety of business and research projects within the CSCP’s focus area of Sustainable Business & Entrepreneurship. Among others, Jadwiga coordinates the SMART Start-up Programme on Sustainable Entrepreneurship, which is one of the flagship CSCP entrepreneurship schemes. Jadwiga also develops curricula and facilitates training for young entrepreneurs, conducts business modelling, and organizes multi-stakeholder events in various countries all around the world.

In her work with private firms, Jadwiga is driven by the conviction that development of a sustainability strategy doesn’t automatically lead to lasting impact, and more than delivering a project report is needed to inspire change of mindsets. Thus, Jadwiga strives to engage project partners to mindfully explore sustainability as an opportunity area to enhance existing business processes, propel innovation, develop new business models, and to mobilise the internal creative potential of employees.

Jadwiga completed an MA in Environmental Engineering at the University of Science and Technology in Cracow. Prior to joining the CSCP, Jadwiga worked as a researcher at the Centre on Sustainable Leadership at the University Witten/Herdecke. Before moving to Germany in 2009, Jadwiga collaborated to promote sustainability in Poland with a number of organizations including private companies and NGO’s. Because of her involvement in the area of sustainable development, Jadwiga has been awarded several prizes and scholarships, among them the Deutsche Bundesstiftung Umwelt award (German Federal Environmental Foundation) for the best graduates in the sustainability field in Europe.

Jadwiga is a Polish national

Before joining the CSCP, she worked as an environment expert to the EU’s LIFE (Financial Instrument for the Environment) programme and as a parliamentary assistant at the European Parliament, focusing on environmental policy and consumer protection issues. She also worked for the World Wide Fund for Nature and the European Environmental Bureau.

Nora has studied International Relations at the Technical University Dresden and McGill University in Montreal. She conducted her thesis on international water conflicts in close cooperation with the Institute of Organisational Communication (IFOK) and the Wittenberg Center for Global Ethics.

Nora is a German national. 

Rosa is currently working on the projects entitled “Making the Business Case Towards Low Carbon and Resource Efficient Lifestyles”, “Sustainable and Cleaner Production in the Manufacturing Industries of Pakistan (SCI-PAK)“ and “Artists in Residence”.

Rosa completed an MA in Politics, International Law and History at the Universities of Bonn and Southampton. Her final thesis on the implications of the North American Free Trade Agreement for Mexico was recently published. After interning at the CSCP in sum-mer 2008, Rosa started an MSc in Environmental Policy and Regulation at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She focused on policy instruments and sus-tainability and volunteered at the LSE environmental society. For her master thesis on renewable energies she carried out interviews with various experts. She graduated in winter 2009. During her studies, Rosa worked for several organisations for development cooperation, amongst others the German Development Service and InWEnt. She also interned at the German Embassy in Managua, Nicaragua.

Rosa is a German national.

… implementation and dissemination strategies. On the other hand, it comprises the analysis of institutional and physical infrastructures and their capacities for innovation and effective utilisation of information and resources. Sebastian’s regional focus is China where he has dedicated to projects on low-carbon city development, green government procurement, sustainable building interiors and CDM. On a more global scale, he has worked on the aluminium industry, open innovation and strategic alliances. As for Europe, challenges in the energy markets are his fields of expertise.

Before joining the CSCP, Sebastian gained experience at the interface of applied research and the corporate field in Germany, the UK and China. He worked with German CIM Experts and supported Ecolutions, the Institute for Applied Material Flow Management, SCHOTT UK and Stiftung Welt:Klasse.

Sebastian’s academic background mirrors his interdisciplinary work focus as a mediator between research and practice. He holds a postgraduate degree in Economics/ Chinese Area Studies from University of Cologne, from where he also obtained undergraduate degrees in Chinese Area Studies/ Economics, and Business Administration. During his studies Sebastian conducted field research on policy implementation and impact assessment in China. He spent one year at a Chinese key university and lived with a Chinese family.

Already as a student Sebastian committed to the institutionalisation of sustainability in economics and management, and the promotion of Modern Chinese studies. He worked with oikos Cologne, was an acting member of the student parliament, the student council and the Association for Modern Chinese Studies, some of which he still supports as an alumnus today.

Sebastian Philipps is a German national.

Francesca has been working as a Researcher and Project Coordinator for the CSCP since 2010. Throughout her activities she has been coordinating European projects, conducting in-depth action research analyses, developing innovative methodologies and tools as well as planning and implementing multi-stakeholder interactions within the field of Sustainable Business and Entrepreneurship.

Among others, Francesca has been actively involved in the development of training material for the financial sector, business associations, and SMEs in developing countries. She also produced several transnational studies focusing on the untapped potentials of eco-innovation and energy and resource efficiency strategies, at management level, by analysing the economic, environmental and social benefits linked to these innovative business solutions.

Francesca is currently working on the project Sustainable Development Through Interaction between European Policy, Research and Public Administration, fostering an efficient communication and interaction between policy makers, administrative agencies and the scientific community to create more sustainable lifestyles.

During her career Francesca has also had the possibility to work within international research advisory organisations and private firms in the fields of financial market regulations, CSR, product development, and implementation strategies, as well as policy related services, justice strategy advices and innovation labs.

Francesca holds a M.A. in International Relations and Diplomacy from Leiden University in the Netherlands. The focus of her studies lies in EU politics, structure of international organizations, working procedures and diplomacy, and international security theories. While doing her Bachelor studies at the University of Rome Tor Vergata Francesca learned to speak English, German, and French.

Francesca is an Italian national. 

He has 14 years international consultancy and research experience in various sectors, including SMEs, resource processing, manufacturing, service, local and state government. In 2010 Dick started to work for the CSCP on an UNEP project focusing on business models and the business case for resource efficiency.

Dick is currently involved in various CSCP projects as a Senior Consultant and he also holds a position with GHD engineering consultancy firm. Dick held previous positions with the Centre of Excellence in Cleaner Production Perth, Centre for Industrial Ecology at Yale University, and African Environmental Solutions.

He holds an PhD (Industrial Ecology) from Curtin University of Technology (Perth), MSc in Applied Science from University of Cape Town, and BSc in Industrial Engineering from University of Professional Education Tilburg (Netherlands). Through his studies and work, Dick has lived in The Netherlands, South Africa, USA, New Zealand, and Australia.

Dick is a Dutch national, currently based in Perth (Western Australia).

...approaches and tools for mainstreaming SCP.

Neil is an experienced Project leader used to coordinating multi-national and multi-functional project teams to find solutions meeting the interests of diverse stakeholders. He acquired over 10 years professional experience in IT and consumer goods marketing.

As an International Product Manager he was responsible for strategy for a portfolio of brands and products in over 30 countries including projects on full chain sustainability risk and opportunity analysis and market change strategy for harmful products. He designed and commissioned international market researches and has extensive experience of supply chain and packaging optimisation, including working on packaging design and category management for major retailer groups. Additionally he managed innovation process and pipelines and was a trained knowledge management expert.

He now works on diverse projects with corporations, industry associations and policy-makers. His other key field of interest is in the field of behavioural change and values systems shifts towards sustainable lifestyles- addressing people within their own subjective contexts.

Neil studied Marketing at Lancaster University, England with units of Consumer Behaviour, Retailing and Cognitive and Social Psychology. He is a Master Practioner of Neuro Linguistic Programming, a certified coach and an Associate member of the global Association of Coaching.

Neil is a British national.

...Susanne focuses on communicating and disseminating project’s best practices and project results. She edits the Network Facility’s webpage, produces movies and designs communication tools necessary to network among projects and policy makers.

Before joining the SWITCH-Asia Network Facility, Susanne Müller managed a bi-lateral project for the German development cooperation. Change management and policy development were at the heart of her work as media advisor to the Minister of Women’s Affairs in Cambodia. Susanne effectively put communication campaigns into practice. With intercultural expertise she directed a project on women’s rights. She designed strategies and conducted impact analyzes.

Susanne has worked with or for a variety of organisations including GTZ, DED and Greenpeace. Furthermore, she worked for different German broadcasting channels and media companies, examples are: NDR/RBB, RTL, SAT1, VOX, Multimedia and Media Company Berlin.

Environmental Protection has not only been at the center of Susanne’s career in the Greenpeace press office. She produced environmental movies and action footage. Susanne conceptualized action imagery contributing to the branding of Greenpeace.

The basis for Susanne’s work is her journalistic background. She studied communication science and languages. For 10 years, she worked in topical broadcasting.

Susanne is a German national.

Isabell gained her experience in wrapping scientific topics into interesting stories while working for several radio stations as reporter and anchorwoman. 

Isabell holds a Diploma in media science and media management. During her studies in Cologne and Madrid she also engaged with media psychology and international policy studies.

She is  a native German speaker, fluent in English and has a good knowledge of Spanish. 

Isabell is a German national.

Ongoing activities of Laura Schindler include design and support for conferences such as „The future of sustainable lifestyles and entrepreneurship“ and the visualization of various projects like the SPREAD Sustainable Lifestyles 2050 project. Additional to this Laura is working within the communication task force of the CSCP. 

Laura Schindler studied communication design at the ecosign/Akademie für Gestaltung in Cologne and obtained the Diploma for sustainable Design/ecosign.

In addition to her studies, she has worked as a self-employed designer. Furthermore, she has completed internships in the design sector and participated in various exchange programs, having earned the German-French bilingual baccalaureate. 

Laura Schindler is a German national.

in the developing world. He studied public policy at the Willy Brandt School of Public Policy of Universität Erfurt, Germany. His specialization areas include international affairs and international political economy. For his studies he received a partial scholarship from the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD). Ahmad’s research article is recently published in which he analyzed the potential of improving the environmental performance of manufacturing firms through ISO 14001 in Pakistan.

Apart from his academic credentials, he has professional experience in both public and private sectors. In the public service, he served as assistant director for more than a year in the Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education in Pakistan. During his service, he was involved in various public policy initiatives in the areas of education, health and social security. Before joining the public sector, he was serving as human resources officer in a large textile manufacturing firm in Pakistan.

Ahmad is a Pakistani national. 

responsibility and the influence of civil society in shaping and promoting sustainable lifestyles.

After high school, Carina spent a year in Bolivia where she worked for a human rights NGO in the slums of Santa Cruz de la Sierra.  During her University studies, Carina worked with Youth Action for Peace Germany, Friends of the Earth International and the Student Workforce for Sustainability and Development. In the latter, as a member of the executive board she coordinated working groups on civic activism and sustainable technologies.

Carina holds a M.Sc. in Political Science, specialisation in Global Environmental Governance, from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. In her thesis she assessed the CSR performances of leading retail stores and the impact of civil society campaigning on behavioural change.

Carina Diedrich is a German national.

She works on mapping sustainable consumption policies with a multi-stakeholder approach to shift China towards a sustainable future and has rich experiences on sustainability development. She used to work as Guangzhou Office Director and Low Carbon Program Manager of ISC in charge of the office operation and implementation of USAID ‘Sino-US Climate Action Partnership ‘ and ‘Guangdong Partnership for Energy Efficiency in Public Buildings’ with UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office support (SPF project). She was responsible for “Baseline Study of Local NGO Capacities at the Pearl River Delta” funded by Ford Foundation and “Environmental NGO Capacity Building Program in South China” funded by Rockefeller Brothers Fund.

Chuanrong also worked on EU-China Clean Energy Center as the Policy and Capacity Building Officer creating and updating a clean energy policy knowledge base and related advisory services. There she focused on Clean Coal, Renewable Energy Sources, Energy Efficiency in Energy Consumption (buildings, products, industry), Sustainable Biofuels, and Sustainable and Efficient Systems.

She also was managing director of UNEP/UNESCAP Regional Helpdesk on Sustainable Consumption and Production in Asia and the Pacific, supported UNEP Marrakech Process and UNESCAP Green Growth priority activities in Asia and Pacific region. Therefore she participated in the organisations’ regional activities related to a more sustainable policy development and country intervention.

Prior to that, she worked as a consultant on waste management policies and trans-boundary waste-resource management focusing on legislation and implementation of the waste directives of EC and Asian countries; as well as a senior engineer in a local government in China primarily working on technology management including technology incubation programmes, project evaluation and audit, technology transfer, contract assessment as well as the national priority manufacturing technologies programme. 

She holds a BSc in Chemistry from Sichuan Normal University (China) and MSc in International Material Flow Management from University of Applied Sciences Trier (Germany). She is a certified junior accountant, the auditor of the Quality Management System of ISO1400, ISO9002. She also received training in "Sino-America International leadership improvement program" in the United States.

Chuanrong Wang is a Chinese national.

Claudia joined the CSCP as an intern in November 2010 and since August 2011 she is working as a consultant in the Acquisition Team. She also supports the Sustainable Products Team in different projects related to eco-efficiency and market surveys. Her fields of interest are resource efficiency, policy and instruments, urban infrastructure and services, sustainable transportation and mobility, participatory approach in planning processes and sustainable living (green cities).

Previously Claudia worked in the United Nations Development Program (UNDP) in Managua, Nicaragua. She was responsible for the administration of several projects carried out by the Environment, Energy and Risk Management Unit dealing with risk management, early response and recovery, energy supply for isolated communities and desertification. In this function she worked together with several Nicaraguan Ministries and different United Nations Agencies (such as FAO, UNICEF, WFP). At the same time, Claudia worked for the United Nations Volunteers (UNV). As a UN Volunteer she was responsible for the planning and realisation of conferences, meetings, workshops and dissemination campaigns related to adaptation and mitigation of climate change and MDGs.

Claudia holds a first Diploma in Economy Business from the Thomas More University in Managua, Nicaragua and a M.Sc. in Technology and Resources Management in the Tropics and Subtropics with focus on Urban and Regional Management from the University of Applied Science in Cologne. In her master thesis she focused on the development of a sustainable indicator set for the urban transport sector.

Claudia Groezinger is a Nicaraguan national.

Currently she works on projects for international food producers and retailers on product impact assessments and company-wide sustainability strategies.

During her internship at the CSCP she worked on a project for an international service provider and identified trends and future market opportunities in the energy, construction and consumer goods sectors.  Gabriëlle is also engaged in SMART start-up Trainings and writing of funding proposals for EU research grants.

Gabriëlle holds a M.Sc. degree in Environmental Sciences and a B.Sc. degree in Organic Production Sciences, both obtained at Wageningen University and Research centre in the Netherlands. During her studies she focused on sustainable entrepreneurship, where she combined environmental communication, sociology and environmental systems analysis and applied it mainly to food production. Gabriëlle wrote her Master thesis on entrepreneurial strategies for the provision of Fairtrade products in SMEs.

In parallel to her studies Gabriëlle attended and prepared congresses and excursions in the field of SCP, held in The Netherlands and Scandinavia. She was also an active board member of her study association and the RUW Foundation, where she organised workshops and debates on rural development.

Gabriëlle Rossing is a Dutch national.

At the CSCP she is jointly responsible for creating corporate identity for different projects and promoting workshops and conferences as Graphic Recorder.

Ina holds a diploma in Design. While studying at the ecosign/Academy of Design, she already worked at the CSCP as student assistant and supported projects like Smart Start-up or Smart CSOs.

Ina is a German national.

Before joining the CSCP, he worked as a Student Assistant at the Wuppertal Institute, working for the Research Group on Future Energy and Mobility Structures. His area of focus at the Institute was providing support for researchers on sustainable mobility.

His civilian service took him to South Africa where he worked in a school for handicapped children for the time of one year. Later on, he has been working for several organisations engaged in development cooperation in other African countries such as Guinea, Mali and Uganda.

Jan Per Bethge studied Social Science with focus on development studies and energy economics at the University of Cologne. His master thesis analysed different sustainability programmes, their implementation and impacts on the ground using the example of cocoa production in Ghana. Next to his studies he was active for oikos Cologne, a student initiative for sustainable economics and management.

Jan Per Bethge is a German national.

... the implementation of the SMART project, which aims to help businesses improving and communicating sustainability through 52 weekly actions. Jens Kristian holds a Master Degree in Socio-Economic and Environmental Planning from Roskilde University, Denmark. In the past, he has worked as a consultant with United Nations Environment Programme in Bangkok and the European Commission in Brussels.

His field of work is sustainable entrepreneurship and business development in developing countries. He has gained experience in entrepreneurship while working as consultant and trainer in this field in Colombia since 2005. 

Julio Andrés holds a diploma in finances and international relations from the University Externado of Colombia, another diploma in business management from the University of Applied Sciences of Worms in Germany and a Master degree in Environmental Management and Development from the National University of Colombia / University of Bremen in Germany. He is also a PhD candidate on Sustainable Business at the University of Oldenburg in Germany.

Julio Andrés is based in Bogota-Colombia, where he develops and engages with Latin-American stakeholders to design SCP strategies in the continent. 

He is a Colombian national.

... on making these products more sustainable and bringing them to the market.

Before taking up the position at CSCP in the beginning of 2006, he spent several years at the Fraunhofer Society for applied research as a student researcher. After that he spent and one year at a consulting company and later as an intern at the renewable energy venture capital department in one of Europe's largest energy companies. He volunteers in several organisations such as AIESEC, where he also served as regional trainer on sustainable development. Furthermore, in 2008 his online sustainability platform received the "light house project" recognition from the German Council for Sustainable Development.

Oliver Adria spent 20 years in Indonesia before moving to Germany. He studied Electrical Engineering at the University of Applied Sciences Cologne where he wrote his thesis on policy frameworks for renewable energy storage.

Oliver is a German national.

... energy efficiency, cleaner production and resource efficiency projects in Chinese enterprises, green procurement practices among local governments and cooperation with Chinese researchers in promoting LCA application.

Patrick holds a BA Hons in Chinese (University of Westminster, UK)，a BA in Art and Design (NMIT, New Zealand) and an MA in International Relations (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand). Prior to joining CSCP Patrick worked in New Zealand in the field of bio-diversity protection and as research assistant and tutor at the Department of Environmental Studies at Victoria University. In addition to his work for CSCP Patrick currently is visiting researcher at the China University of Political Science and Law, investigating policy issues and multi-stakeholder partnerships relevant to environmental leapfrogging in China’s energy sector for his PhD thesis.

Patrick Schroeder is a German-New Zealand national.

She studied Political Science and Applied Foreign Languages - English, German and Arabic - in France, Germany and Syria. She was involved in an association acting for children in Afghanistan, in several actions against GMO in her region in France and volunteered as conference organiser at the 2008 European Fair Trade Fair in Lyon, France.

Cécile  Marsille is a French national.

She previously worked at China Clean Development Mechanism Fund management center focusing on the financing methods on addressing climate change issues and Chinese renewable energy industry sectors, European Union Emissions Trading Scheme (EU ETS), carbon market in the Europe. She worked as a student assistant in University of Cologne to support to organize the 2nd Germany-China Forum on Climate Change and Renewable Energy. And she worked as an intern in United Nations University – International Human Dimensions Programme on Global Environmental Change (IHDP). She was instrumental in the development of a quality correspondence with the various national committees IHDP collaborate with.

She holds MSc in Environmental Sciences from University of Cologne and Bsc in Environment engineering from University of Beijing Technology. In her thesis, she focuses on the energy policy and particularly renewable energy policy in China.

Sha Song is a Chinese national.

As an information architect his field of activities is e.g to give the CSCP and its projects a visual face.

Currently he is a student at the ecosign/Akademie für Gestaltung, Cologne. Before joining the team he was a self-employed communication designer with focus on corporate identity.

Simon is German national.