Susanne Kadner

As Co-founder and Director of CIRCULAR REPUBLIC Susanne Kadner is driving the development of new entrepreneurial ecosystems for the implementation of a Circular Economy at Europe's largest Entrepreneurship Center UnternehmerTUM. Previously, Susanne was Director at acatech, Germany's National Academy of Science and Engineering, where she founded the multi-stakeholder Circular Economy Initiative Deutschland, the first of its kind to develop a roadmap for the transition towards a resource-efficient and digitally enabled Circular Economy in Germany. Before shifting her career focus on circularity and resource use, Susanne worked for 10 years at the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research, inter alia as Deputy Head and Head of Science for Working Group 3 of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). In this function, she co-authored and managed i.a. the 5th Assessment Report, which provided the scientific basis for the Paris Agreement of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.