Mr Michael Kuhndt is Head of the UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on Sustainable Consumption and Production. As head of the CSCP, he coordinates the Centre’s contribution towards the Marrakech process 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) and Resource Efficiency (RE) policies. He presently directs projects in the fields of SCP/RE and poverty reduction, policy assessment, SCP indicators, technology assessment, triple bottom line innovation management, sustainable consumption, product stewardship and the design of SCP/RE strategies based on multi-stakeholder approaches. 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.
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