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.

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. 

... Sustainable Building Interior Renovation. Furthermore he is responsible for projects on desiging strategies and in defining criteria for more sustainable products and services.

Before taking up the position at CSCP, Thomas worked as a scientific assistant at the German Federal Environment Agency (UBA) and as an environment expert in the national office of Friends of the Earth Germany (BUND). In both cases he was responsible for various topics of sustainable development strategies, analysing indicators of natural resource conservation and working on basic policy issues of sustainability.

Thomas has studied political science at Free University Berlin. The focal points of his studies were the correlations of international conflicts and environment policy.

Thomas is a German national.

... 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 SMEs and NGOs in the field of sustainable consumption and production, particularly leadership training for sustainability and social 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.

... and analysing linkages between poverty eradication and social progress with sustainable consumption and production in Africa.

Fisseha is a former senior expert at the Ethiopia Environmental Protection Authority. He worked for UNDP, UNEP and GEF projects in Africa and served as chief chemist for Environmental Management, Process Control, Quality Control and Research and Development at processing industries in Africa.

He holds BSc in Chemistry from Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), Diploma in Management from Mekele University (Ethiopia), MSc in Environment and Development from Addis Ababa University (Ethiopia), and MA in Social Entrepreneurship and International Philanthropy from Bologna University (Italy).

Fisseha Tessema is an Ethiopian 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.

In 2010, as an independent advisor and consultant, Cheryl has worked with the US Environmental Protection Agency, UNIDO, Maersk, Nokia, Novo Nordisk, Novozymes, Philips, Renault, Shell, and Tata on issues related to SCP and sustainability driven innovation as a special advisor to San Francisco based social innovation group, Collective Invention.

From 2004 through 2009, Cheryl worked on business & society issues with The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD).  Cheryl led the WBCSD’s work on sustainable consumption and lifestyles, exploring the relationship between business activities, consumer behavior and environmental and social challenges.  In 2008 Cheryl worked with consumer-facing companies to define the business case for sustainable consumption, and in 2009 to explore the sustainable lifestyle and critical triggers to behavior change.

In 2008-2009 Cheryl was a contributor to the WBCSD’s Vision 2050 project, a scenarios-inspired process which sought to provide a business view on a world on track to sustainability by 2050, the pathways of change needed and, the future agenda for business.  

While at the WBCSD, Cheryl also led an initiative which linked corporate sustainability with sustainable finance. In 2008 Cheryl designed and facilitated a workshop series in 6 global markets which brought which brought business together directly with financial institutions to accelerate action on valuing sustainability in the capital markets.  This initiative built on Cheryl’s work with the WBCSD in sustainability reporting & accountability where Cheryl was a member of the core team since 2004.

Cheryl also continues her work in the area of sustainable finance.  In 2010, Cheryl has been an advisor and consultant to UNAIDS on financing for health, and a Lead Consultant on the development of a Sustainability Index for Turkey, together with the Istanbul Stock Exchange, the Turkish Business Council for Sustainable Development, Sustainable Asset Management, and SinCo, experts in sustainable investment in emerging markets.

In 2001-2004 Cheryl was focused on the health agenda, designing a process for dialogue on Corporate Responsibility and Health between company executives, medical professionals and hospital administration for The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation in Toronto, Canada. 

Cheryl has 15 years of cross-sector business experience which includes management consulting, marketing, advertising, and new media, with 10 of those years working at the intersection of business and sustainable development.   Cheryl is Canadian and throughout her career has worked and lived in Australia, Canada, Colombia, South Korea, and is currently based in Geneva, Switzerland. 

Since moving to Geneva in 2004, Cheryl has co-founded two professional networks of Geneva-based professionals working on sustainable development and corporate responsibility:  CSR Geneva (co-founded in 2005) and Sustainable Finance Geneva (co-founded in 2007) where she remains a member of the Executive Committee.  Cheryl is a member of the advisory boards of BigRoom.ca, Transparence Connect & Source, and The Green Awards.

Cheryl is a Canadian 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.

...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.

...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.

She is working in two projects related to civil society organisations, Civil Society Platform on SCP and Action Town - Research and Action for SCP.

... 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.

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.

... “Introducing sustainable lifestyle and sustainable entrepreneurship into African universities and colleges” and the “Sustainable lifestyle award”. Additional to this Martha is working within the communication task force of the CSCP. Her expertise lies in the field of event management and communication.

Before joining the CSCP, she has worked as a freelancer for the event agency VOK DAMS (Wuppertal, Germany), as a facility management assistant at the VELTINS-Arena (Gelsenkirchen, Germany) and as a PR-assistant within an agency focused on the medical sector (Duisburg, Germany).

Martha Hauffe studied Public Relations and Journalism (BA) at the University of Applied Sciences in Gelsenkirchen, Germany. Additional to that she obtained an MBA in Eventmarketing from the University of Chemnitz, Germany.

Martha Johanna Hauffe is a German national.

... conservation and development, and poverty and development.

Elizabeth also completed an MSci in Chemistry at the University of Bristol in the UK, which included a year studying at the Ruprecht-Karls Universität Heidelberg. She has worked teaching English as a foreign language in Germany and Poland and has also completed various internships, including a research and development based project at GlaxoSmithKline. Elizabeth has worked as a volunteer for various organisations including her university Amnesty International society and a local environment and development initiative in Wellington.

Elizabeth is a British national.

... background research, benchmarking and dissemination activities.

His main topics are resource efficiency in the public and private sector; sustainability governance at the state-business interface; socio-economic implications of sustainability; sustainable design, architecture and urban planning; and sustainability communication.

Martin Herrndorf also promotes sustainability in higher education as a member of the Executive Board of oikos International in the position of Director Marketing. His previous work experiences include being a Student Assistant at the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Envi-ronment and Energy, at the Department for Comparative Political Science and at the De-partment for Economic and Social Statistics at University of Cologne. He worked as a free-lance journalist and editor for various media, including the German daily newspaper ‘die tageszeitung’. He was the founding director of a web service agency, which he continuous to consult as a freelancer. 

He graduated in economics and political science at the University of Cologne in spring 2006. He conducted research for his final thesis in Mexico during a stay at the National Ecology Institute in Mexico City.

Martin Herrndorf is a German national.

Before joining the CSCP she worked as a research assistant at the University of Tampere. Currently, she is also the chair of the Committee for sustainable consumption and production in the Finnish Association for Nature Conservation. Elli regularly holds lectures on sustainable consumption topics in Finland. 

Elli holds a master's degree in environmental policy from Tampere University (Finland). Her thesis was part of the FIN-MIPS household project, where the resource consumption of Finnish households was assessed using the MIPS-method. The special focus of her thesis was on the action space of consumers and the functionality of the MIPS-concept as an information dissemination tool. 

Elli Kotakorpi is a Finnish 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.

... based on renewable energy and resource efficiency technology. In this context he works on projects that support the market entry and export of German environmental technology to the fast growing BRIC economies.

Furthermore, Thomas works on projects that explore the opportunities of sustainable product design for risk reduction, regulatory cost reduction, product and service innovation, product and brand differentiation, and customer relationships.

In the field of environmental policy and regulation his focus is on economic instruments. For both corporate and public sector clients he works on analysing the costs and benefits of existing as well as potential future framework conditions. In addition, he advises on consequences, opportunities and perspectives of climate change.

Thomas studied economics at the University of Bayreuth and at the University of California, Berkeley. During his studies he was involved with oikos, the international student organisation for sustainable economics and management. In 2006 he took a break from his studies in order to work fulltime as elected Executive Director of oikos International in St.Gallen, Switzerland. He gained further professional experience while working with KPMG in Zurich.

Thomas is a German national.

... she finished in October 2008 with a degree as Master’s of Business Law. In addition to her postgraduate studies Katharina worked as  Public Relation and Event-manager for a company that specialised in offering workshops and networking events for entrepreneurs, venture capitalists and public intermediaries. Katharina is a member of AIESEC international e.V. and is team leader for the internship campaign within the external relations department of AIESEC Köln. While completing her law studies she also volunteered as board member and head of the trainee program for the universities radio station in addition to moderating radio shows and public events.

Katharina is also about to finish her PhD thesis which focuses on international accounting and tax law: In October 2009 she started her studies in economics at the Fernuni Hagen.

Katharina is a German national.

He is about to complete a master degree in environment and development from the National University of Colombia. In 2008 he received a scholarship from DAAD in order to complete his studies and write his master’s thesis. The focus of the thesis is the integration of ecodesing issues into the business plan model.  Julio Andrés has first degree in finances and international relations of the University Externado of Colombia and another degree in business management of the University of Applied Sciences of Worms in Germany.

Julio Andrés Rozo Grisales is a Colombian national. 

... their potential to realise advanced strategies that reach beyond the traditional scope of business decisions and address complex sustainability issues, including lifestyles or societal values. Stephan has extensive experience as CSR consultant, including sustainability reporting practices, sustainability and stakeholder management, and CSR strategy development. His project experience covers among others trainings and workshops for companies, organisations, and networks such as the German Global Compact Network (DGCN), research on business value creation through sustainable consumption strategies, new technologies (especially nanotechnologies and technical solutions to climate change) as well as sustainable water supply and sewage management.

Stephan studied in Witten/Herdecke University (Germany) and Stockholm School of Business (Sweden) and holds a diploma in Economics/Business Administration.

Stephan Schaller is German and US national.

Ongoing activities include design and support for the conference „The future of sustainable products and services“. Laura Schindler is working both on the SMART project and on the SCP in the Media project.

Laura Schindler studied communication design at the ecosign / Akademie für Gestaltung in Cologne.

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.

... 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.

...involved in various projects. She is focused on fostering the sustainable entrepreneurship, conducting research in the field of social entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship. Besides, she is working on Life Cycle Analysis and eco-efficiency performance indicators for metals as well as sustainable consumption and production strategies in Baltic Sea Region.

Before coming to Germany Jadwiga had obtained a degree of Master of Science-Engineer of Environmental Engineering at the University of Science and Technology in Cracow, Poland. For over three years she worked in the sustainability field in various Polish organizations, gaining experience in sustainable business, sustainability strategies and CSR. For her involvement in promotion of sustainable development she has been awarded various scholarships and prizes. She was the winner of the 12^th edition of the German Federal Environmental Foundation Scholarship Programme for the best graduates in the field of environmental protection.

Jadwiga came to Germany in March 2009. Before joining the CSCP, she had worked as a fellow researcher in the Centre on Sustainable Leadership at the University Witten/ Herdecke, Germany.

Jadwiga is a Polish national

carrying out of dissemination and implementation strategies. On the other hand, it demands analysis of institutional settings and their capacities for innovation and effective utilisation of information. Regarding both aspects, Sebastian’s regional focus is China.

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 the Stiftung Welt:Klasse.

As member of the board and project manager of oikos Cologne, Sebastian promoted the institutionalisation of sustainability knowledge in business departments at Cologne University and elsewhere. He was also an acting member of the student parliament, member of the student body of Chinese Area Studies as well as the Association for Modern Chinese Studies at Cologne University.

Having a background in Chinese Area Studies and Business Administration, his academic orientation mirrors his focus of work that merges applied and theoretical, country-specific and general aspects. To improve his understanding of China, Sebastian spent one year in Qingdao where he studied at a Chinese key university and lived with a Chinese family.

Sebastian Philipps is a German national. 

Prior to joining the CSCP, Nora Steurer worked for the United Nations headquarters in Vienna as a consultant, where she also earned a language certificate in French studies. While in Vienna, she also worked as a student assistant at the University of Vienna, conducting seminars on development issues in Latin America. Nora Steurer volunteered for various NGO’s, where she held seminars for exchange students from outside Europe and worked in the area of consumer education.

Nora Steurer spent a year at an international school in India as well as a year in Bolivia where she worked with various organisations in the area of crisis management and environmental protection. She participated in various conferences and competitions, amongst other things the international European student conference in Paris, representing the University of Vienna.

Nora Steurer is a German national.

Prior to joining CSCP, she worked as a consultant on waste management policies and transboundary waste-resource management. The specific activities involved the legislation and implementation of the waste directives of EC and Asian countries, the transboundary movement of scrap metal of End of Life Vehicles (ELVs) and Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) within and out of EC, the initiation of Asia Pro-Eco project in China which deals with hazardous waste treatment, and the German-Sino projects on Utilization of Organic Waste in Yanglin Agricultural Hi-tech Demonstration Zoon, and on Hubei Longganhu Farm in China. She has been a senior engineer in local government in China primarily working on technology management including technology incubation programmes, project evaluation and audit, technology transfer, contract assessment as well as national priority manufacturing technologies programme.

She has BSc in Chemistry from Sichuan Normal University (China) and  finished her MSc study in International Material Flow Management in 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.

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 is studying Social Science at the University of Cologne. Next to his studies he is active for oikos Cologne, a student initiative for sustainable economics and management.

Jan Per Bethge is a German national.

She holds a BA in International Relations obtained at Dresden University of Technology in 2008. Her Master studies took her first to the Netherlands, where she studied Sustainable Development (MSc) at Utrecht University for one year, and then to the UK, where she is now studying Environmental Governance (MA) at the University of Essex.

During her studies, she spent one semester abroad in Kingston, Jamaica, followed by an internship in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, where she worked at the Goethe Institute. She has been active in various student initiatives regarding Latin American politics, the United Nations, and human rights education, respectively.

Marit is a German national.

... brings a wide range of knowledge and experience in various computer operating systems, networking protocols, database and programming languages. He is working as a system and network student information technology assistance.

He has completed his B. Sc Computer Engineering in D. Mendeleyev University of Chemical Technology of Russia (MUCTR).

He is a Bangladeshi 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.

Ahmad is studying public policy with special emphasis on public and non for profit management at Willy Brandt School of Public Policy in Erfurt, Germany. For his ongoing master studies, DAAD has awarded him a partial scholarship. In addition to this, he holds professional experience in both public and private sectors. In the private sector his experience mainly lies in textile manufacturing sector of Pakistan. While in the public sector, he has worked on various policy issues in education, health and social welfare sectors being Assistant Director in Ministry of Social Welfare and Special Education (Government of Pakistan).

Besides his academic and professional experience, he has also an active record in socio-political engagements. Currently he is an active member of Erfurt city project “Fremde werden Freunde” which is a forum of integration of foreign students in Germany.

Ahmad is a Pakistani national. 

Her expertise lies in the field of visualisation of sustainability topics in different communications media.

Ina is currently studying sustainable product and graphic design at the ecosign/Akademie für Gestaltung in Cologne. The focus of her studies is on the versatility of design. She will complete her studies in April 2011.
After completing her training as a decorator (1998-2001) she completed her "Fachabitur" in ‘creation’.

She then began a second training program as an office administrator (2002-2004) and worked as an independent decorator for two years prior to beginning studies at the ecosign at April 2006.

Ina is a German national.