Johan Berhin is the founder and designer of the green furniture concept, known from railway stations and airports around the world, such as London King's Cross Station and Hong Kong Airport. He saw the need for more sustainable timber as a furniture producer and became amazed by the many benefits of forestry without clear-cutting, both from a sustainability and an economic viewpoint. He believes this probably has the largest climate potential of any action in Northern Europe.
Martin Pauli works at Arup, an international consultancy and design firm, where he develops circular economy-based business and product strategies for leading companies in the construction industry in Europe and internationally.
Guido Rink has been vice mayor of the city of Emmen since 2018. He is responsible for economic development and sustainability, mobility, international affairs, cooperation in the Northern Netherlands, events and hospitality, social support and inclusion. He is also a member of the European Committee of the Regions (CoR) at the EU and is a rapporteur and spokesman of Regulation on Artificial Intelligence for the CoR. Rink is political chair of the small and medium sized cities platform in the POLIS network. One of Rink’s priorities is the transition to a fully circular economy. He sees the urgency of this transition and clearly understands that this transition requires intensive cooperation with various stakeholders, public and private. He also strongly believes in collaboration between circular cities and regions across Europe.
Nick is an environmental civil engineer by profession, currently working as a senior expert with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, where he spearheads the circular built environment topic.
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Anna Cameron
Head of Sector
European Economic and Social Committee (EESC)
Anna Cameron's first career was as mayor of a historic town in the Eifel region of Germany. She joined the EESC in 2019, and is now leading their work on climate, sustainability and the circular economy. She co-ordinates the secretariat of the European Circular Economy Stakeholder Platform, managing the triangular relationship between the EESC, the European Commission and circular economy stakeholders on the ground to push for more circularity in the EU and beyond.
Karl Vrancken is responsible for development and implementation of Indaver’s sustainability strategy. He has over 25 years’ experience as an expert in the science-policy interface, working with VITO on waste management, best available techniques and the circular economy. He was the PFAS Commissioner for the Flemish Government, bringing coordination and communication in the per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) crisis in 2021-2022. He has a part-time assignment as associate professor at the bioengineering department at the University of Antwerp, where he teaches sustainable resources management. Karl is member of the Scientific Committee of the European Environment Agency and the International Advisory Board of the Wuppertal Institute for Energy and Environment. Throughout his career he has been building connections between policy, industry and research in the field of sustainable consumption and production.
Prior to joining Sitra, Jussi held senior marketing leadership roles at Nokia, Microsoft and Qualcomm. Currently he looks after Sitra's lifestyle test and its future evolution.
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Paul Skehan
Vice President, Public Policy, Government Affairs and Communications
PepsiCo
Paul joined PepsiCo in September 2017. Previously he acted as director general of spiritsEUROPE for 5 years, director of the European Retail Round Table (ERRT) for 4 years and as deputy secretary general of EUROCHAMBRES for 10 years. Before joining EUROCHAMBRES, Paul worked as CEO of the Chambers of Commerce of Ireland, having spent several years before that in the Irish Industrial Development Authority, responsible for attracting and developing industry in Ireland. He has a bachelor of commerce degree from University College Dublin and an MBA from UBI/Mercer University. As a student, he also worked as a chimney sweep, proof-reader, house painter, grape picker, seller of “In Dublin” magazine and merchandiser.
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Peter Andrews
Director, Consumer Rights, Innovation and Impact
Consumers International
Peter works for the umbrella organisation for consumer groups around the world, building a safer, fairer and more sustainable marketplace for everyone. He is responsible for developing and delivering innovative and impactful programmes on issues facing consumers related to sustainable consumption, food, energy and product safety, as well as wider consumer insights. Prior to this he was head of sustainability policy at the British Retail Consortium (BRC) and was responsible for the development and delivery of the industry's sustainable and ethical trade policies, including the climate action roadmap for the UK retail sector. He is a trustee of the charity Focus on Labour Exploitation (FLEX) and was co-chair of the UK Home Office's group fighting modern slavery.
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Pascal Bourguet
COO and Channel Chief, Lenovo International Market
Lenovo (Schweiz) GmbH
Pascal Bourguet works for an international go-to-market organisation that supports sales operations at Lenovo. The global channel organisation drives Lenovo’s channel-first strategy, leading the Lenovo 360 global channel framework across markets within North America, Latin America, Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia Pacific. Launched in December 2021, the framework of people, programs and tools unleashes the full potential of products and services and solutions portfolio for channel partners around the world, enabling faster access and providing new partner benefits and incentives for cross-selling between device, infrastructure, and services and solutions, and Lenovo’s everything-as-a-service offering.
