Break-out Group 1
Speaker
Since September 2015, Dr. Anna Braune has headed the Research and Development department at the German Sustainable Building Council (DGNB e.V.). Her responsibilities include the technical development and updating of the “DGNB Certification System”, which provides incentives for greater sustainability in neighbourhoods and buildings. She is responsible for research projects, supports the association’s technical communication, and works actively within both internal and external committees to drive the transformation towards a sustainable construction and property sector. Her core areas of expertise are climate and environmental protection, the circular economy, resource conservation and sustainable financing. Dr. Anna Braune studied Technical Environmental Protection at TU Berlin and worked as a research assistant at the Chair of Building Physics at the University of Stuttgart from 2004 to 2007. She is a co-initiator and co-founder of the DGNB and headed the secretariat from its foundation in 2007 until the end of 2008. She subsequently held various senior positions at the consultancy firm thinkstep (now Sphera) until 2015. In 2014, she completed her PhD on the topic of ‘Life cycle assessment benchmarks for real estate’.“
Dr. Nina Fechler combines a deep understanding of technology with strategic business development to shape transformation and innovation at the intersection of industry, academia, and politics. At Evonik, she drives global business development—currently as Global Director Strategic Marketing and Business Development with a focus on the semiconductor market, and previously by establishing the group-wide Circular Economy program. Her expertise in managing complex organizational and innovation processes is also reflected in her previous role at Charité Berlin. There, she established and led Charité’s Berlin University Alliance office at Executive Board level within the Excellence Strategy at the intersection of research, society, and politics. Before, she headed a research group at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces. She holds a PhD in Chemistry and an Executive MBA.
Dr. Ioannis Hatzopoulos is the Director for Sustainability & Science Communications at P&G.
Nora Jeske is a materials scientist with more than 15 years of experience in electronics manufacturing R&D. As a Senior Key Expert at Siemens, she drives sustainability and circularity, focusing on materials, reliability, and regulatory topics such as RoHS and eco-design. Her work bridges engineering, compliance, and industry collaboration to turn complex requirements into practical solutions, leading initiatives to reduce the environmental footprint of electronic components. In parallel, she contributes to shaping sustainability and regulatory developments across the industry as a member of the Sustainability Leadership Council of the Global Electronics Association and has been recognized as a Siemens Inventor of the Year for her contributions to circular electronics.
Miguel Ramôa is a textile chemist and industrialist with 25+ years in Portuguese dry, spinning, weaving and CMT, and wet-process manufacturing, dyeing, finishing, and industrial innovation across vertically integrated mills. He is VP Commercial & Verticalisation at Ronzino, von Oswald S.A. (Rovo Group). His work centres on turning sustainable chemistry into industrial scalable reality: bio-based dyeing, waterless and single-bath processes, and lower-impact wet processing at production scale. He developed a natural dyeing technology. He holds a degree in Chemistry and a post-graduation in Lean Manufacturing from the University of Minho. He argues that sustainability only works when it is also industrial and economic strategy, not marketing.
