ECO PLATFORM - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Managing Director
- General Management
Christian studied civil engineering and worked in construction for over eight years. From 2008 until 2010 he was CEO of the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB). In 2009 he was appointed to the board of the World Green Building Council.
Christian is self-employed since 2010 offering sustainability expertise and IT solutions for digital communication for the Construction Product Sector.
Christian participated actively in the founding process of the ECO Platform and serves as the Managing Director since the founding in 2013.
Alex has been Managing Director at IBU (Institut Bauen und Umwelt e.V. Berlin, Germany) since February 2019.
Alex holds an LCA-related Ph.D. in science and a diploma in physics from ETH Zurich. He also has a diploma in business from the correspondence university at Hagen (DE).
Before joining IBU, Alex worked for 16 years for heavy building material producer CEMEX in various functions in energy, climate change and sustainability management. During this time he co-chaired the Cement Sustainability Initiative working group that together with the International EPD System pioneered the concept of a pre-verified EPD tool. He was also the founding Chair of the Concrete Sustainability Council.
Since 2015, Hakon is Managing Director at The Norwegian EPD Foundation (EPD-Norge), located on Oslo, Norway.
Hakon studied International Economy and Administration at the Norwegian Business School in Oslo, including exchange program at ESADE in Barcelona and ICADE in Madrid and management studies at IMD, Lausanne.
Hakon has an extensive international career from 1992 as Director for Agfa Gevaert and Philips. Working for the Norwegian government as CEO for Innovation Norway in Spain, including responsibility for EEA grants/projects within Renewable Energy and Environment.
Lorenzo is an Electronic Engineer, in ICMQ since 1999, currently with the role of President and General Manager of ICMQ SpA, a certification body operating in the construction sector and sectors connected to them.
He is promoter of agreements with ISI for dissemination of the Envision protocol in Europe and with CSC for the implementation of the CRSS certification in Italy, in addition to the establishment of EPDItaly, the Italian EPD program operator.
Lorenzo has been President of Conforma Association of certification, inspection, testing and calibration bodies, where he has been appointed to the BoD of Accredia since 2015.
Job Titles:
- Head of the ESG & LCA Consulting Practice of Ramboll
Martin is head of the ESG & LCA Consulting practice of Ramboll. Since 2004 he supports private and public sector clients along the construction value chain.
His consultancy covers support in the development of the EPD-scheme, the development of green building rating schemes (DGNB, Edge), green building auditing services, set up and maintenance of the ökobau.dat, development of EPDs for construction products manufacturers, EPD-automation solutions, integration of LCA/EPD-data into building design (BIM)
Job Titles:
- Vice President
- Environmental Scientist With a Specialization on Sustainable Energy
Olympia is an Environmental Scientist with a specialization on Sustainable Energy and Materials. She has studied thoroughly renewable energy resources and policies around them.
As Sustainable Construction Manager, she is responsible for activities around Sustainability and Circularity of mineral wool insulation products, LCA, waste management and recycling. She is also representing Eurima at the CEN TC 350 groups, CEN TC 88 and Construction Products Europe Sustainability groups.
Prior to Eurima, Olympia worked for CEPE on Sustainability policies, EPDs, LCA database and tools. She was PEF pilot leader for Decorative Paints and the manager of EF database for Chemicals for Paints (2.0 and 3.0). She has been deeply involved in EU Ecolabel and Green Public Procurement on behalf of the industry.
Pat has 15 years experience within sustainable construction. Following his time as a consultant, Pat established the eTool UK office. He has provided life cycle assessment, feedback, review and certification on over 60 building LCAs.
Pat sits as an expert on BS 558 and is an active member of UKGBC task groups on net-zero and circular economy.
Pat joined the BRE in 2020 as technical lead within the Sustainable Products team and is responsible for verifying EPDs, updating IMPACT datasets, and developing the LINA tool.
Through his project work Pat has helped quantify and save over 300,000 tCO2e.
Job Titles:
- Quality Management / Chief Auditor
Sebastiaan holds a MBA in Sustainability Management and has more than 15 years of international experience in sustainability management from academia, corporate and consulting within Environmental Services in Energy, Infrastructure and Manufacturing Industry.
Since 2021, he is CEO of EPD International AB, EPD programme operator of the International EPD System. Before, he had served as Sr. Business Developer at the Swedish Environmental Research Institute (IVL) with focus on LCM in critical raw materials and responsible/sustainable supply chain management.
As a generalist, he is passionate and energetic about translating strategic sustainability challenges into sustainable, impactful organisations and solutions. Sebastiaan speaks Dutch, English, German as well as Swedish and lives in Stockholm, Sweden.
Job Titles:
- Honorary President
- Associate Professor in System Ecology at the University of Uppsala
Sven-Olof is Associate Professor in System Ecology at the University of Uppsala. He has held several positions with regard to scientific work such as Ass. Prof. at the University of Linköping and Head of Research at the Swedish Environmental Research Institute, IVL.
Sven-Olof has been leading operational work as Senior Environmental Advisor at the Confederation of Swedish Enterprises and Managing Director for the Swedish Environmental Management Council, the former Swedish expert organization on Sustainable Procurement.
Sven-Olof has been engaged and led a number of international activities and standardization work "with regard to sustainable development and procurement within EU, UN, bilateral work around the world and founding president of ECO Platform.
PEP ecoPassport is a Program Operator focusing on EEE/Electrical and Electronic Equipment and leads this space globally with 2000 EPDs/Environment Product Declarations in 17 Product categories. Xavier HOUOT is the current President of PEP ecoPassport (since fall 2018)
As Senior Vice President of Environment then Sustainable Supply Chain leader with Schneider Electric Xavier has been leading key transformations such as Carbon neutral and Circular Economy strategies, Product Environment stewardship
Prior to Schneider, Xavier worked 25 years in the Consulting space with PwC, EY, BearingPoint, with a focus on Sustainability in last 15 years, working globally and across industry sectors.