Prof. Dr. Stephan Krinke is Head of Sustainability Management and Life Cycle Engineering at Fraunhofer IST and

Professor for Sustainability Management at the Technical University of Braunschweig.

His research focus is sustainability and consulting for mayor industries.

This covers the development and implementation of cost efficient decarbonisation, circular economy strategies and life

cycle based instruments for the management of sustainability aspects.

Prof. Krinke lectures since more than 20 years environmental and sustainabilty management at different universities.

Prof. Krinke has a broad experience in the development and implementation of sustainability strategies in industry.

He worked 22 years at Volkswagen AG, where he held different leading management positions:

Head of environmental affairs product, Head of group environmental affairs, Environmental management officer of

VW AG and Head of sustainability strategy in the general secretariat of the CEO.

Prof. Krinke represents Fraunhofer in national and international bodies and organisations such as the DIN committee

for LCA and product related environmental labelling, the council of the Association of Sustainability and Environmental

Management in Industry (VNU) and the governmental commission for circular economy in Lower Saxony.