10YFP SPP Programme’s members of the Multi-Stakeholder Advisory Committee

CO-LEADS

1. ChileCompra2. Eco Mark Office of Japan Environment Association3. Environmental Development Center of Ministry of Environmental

Protection (EDC)4. Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)5. Fundación Centro de Gestión Tecnológica e Informática Industrial

(CEGESTI)6. ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (co-lead)7. Indian Railways8. Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan-Lebanon9. International Green Purchasing Network (IGPN)10. International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)11. ITC-ILO (Int. Training Center of the ILO)12. Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute (co-lead)13. Mauritius Procurement Policy Office 14. Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment 15. National Agency for Public Procurement16. NCPC Colombia (National Center for Cleaner Production and

Environmental Technologies/CNPMLTA)17. Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity18. SKL Kommentus19. Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC)20. Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)21. United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP (lead)22. United States Environmental Protection Agency

ChileJapan China

GlobalCosta Rica

GlobalIndiaLebanonGlobalGlobalGlobalKoreaMauritiusNetherlandsSwedenColombia

GlobalSwedenUnited StatesSwitzerlandGlobalUnited States

LEAD

ChileCompra

2. Elena Mora

Sevillano

1. Trinidad Inostroza

Bio: Current Director of ChileCompra, Trinidad Inostroza majored in Law and

holds an LL.M. in Public Law, with distinction in Constitutional Law at the

Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. She also holds a Diploma in Public

Management from Universidad de Chile and Diploma of Private Management from

the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile. For 8 years, she was the Head of the

Legal Department of Chile Compra. Prior to that, she worked as the Attorney for

Economic Crimes at the Public Prosecutor Office in Santiago, and as the Head of

Legal Areas at the Ministry of Mining, Ministry of Social Development and the

National Police Direction. She is also a lecturer of post graduate courses of the

Diploma of Public Procurement at the Pontificia Universidad Católica of Chile.

Bio: Currently, Elena Mora Sevillano works as the Coordinator for Intersectoral

Networks in ChileCompra. She also coordinates the Institutional Sustainability

Committee. She majored in Economy in the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid and

holds a Master degree in Cooperation and Development from the Universidad

Pontificia of Comillas from Madrid. She also holds a Diploma in Sustainable

Mangement from the Universidad Católica de Valparaíso (Chile). She has more

than 10 years of professional experience in the social sector, working for NGOs,

international organisms and public entities, in Spain, Thailand and Chile.

Eco Mark Office of Japan Environment Association

2. Hiroyuki

Kobayashi

1. Osamu Uno

Bio: Osamu Uno is the Secretary General of the Eco Mark Office and Managing

Director of the Japan Environment Association and treasurer of the Global

Ecolabelling Network. He serves as a member of the advisory board of IGPN, a

steering committee regarding the Biomass Mark, a commission regarding Green

Purchasing Law in Japan. He graduated from the University of Tokyo, Faculty of

Laws, 1970. I was previously employed at Mitsubishi Estate Co.

Bio: Hiroyuki Kobayashi works in Promotion & International Cooperation

Section of Eco Mark Office following he was engaged in Criteria & Certification

Section developing criteria as well as supporting an applicant to apply for Eco

Mark. He is in charge of international activities such as Mutual Recognition

Agreement and dissemination of Eco Mark programme internationally, and he is

also involved in Global Ecolabelling Network activities.

Chinese Environmental Development Center of Ministry of

Environmental Protection (EDC)

2. Xiaodan Zhang

1. Junqing Xi

Bio: Mr. Junqing Xi, Senior Engineer, is Deputy Director for the Environmental

Development Center of Ministry Of Environmental Protection (EDC) and

Chairman of China’s Environmental United Certification Center (CEC). He

graduated from the Beijing Institute of Technology and was major in Vehicle

Engineering. He had served as Deputy Director/Director of General Office, China’s

National Environmental Monitoring Center (CNEMC), Chief Engineer of the

CNEMEC, Director of the Environmental Protection Acceptance Monitoring and

Management office (CNEMC), Director of Pollution Source Monitoring Division,

Environmental Monitoring Department of MEP.

Bio: Ms. Zhang Xiaodan, Research Fellow, is General Manager of China

Environmental United Certification Center (CEC), Deputy Secretary-General of

China Green Purchasing Network (CGPN), Member of the National

Standardization Technical Committee on Certification and Accreditation

(SAC/TC261). She is also Board Member of Global Ecolabelling Network (GEN)

since 2012 and Advisory Board Member of International Green purchasing

Network (IGPN). She engages in policy research and practice application mainly in

the fields of China Environmental Labelling program, Green Public Procurement,

Green Supply Chain, Clean Development Mechanism, Carbon Emission Trade

Systems etc. She used to be Deputy Director of China National Accreditation

Center for Environmental Conformity Assessment, which was in charge of

establishing national accreditation system on ISO14001.

Forest Stewardship Council (FSC)

2. Anakarina Perez

Oropeza

1. John Hontelez

Bio: John Hontelez is Chief Advocacy Officer of the Forest Stewardship Council.

He is responsible for coordination of FSC representation at major regional and

international governmental policy making institutions and processes, such as the

European Union, the UN and several of its bodies, ITTO and IUCN. He advises the

FSC National Offices on advocacy work, in particular on legality issues and

sustainable public procurement. Prior to joining FSC in 2011, John Hontelez was

Secretary-General of the European Environmental Bureau, the largest federation of

environmental citizens organisations in Europe, specialized in influencing and

promoting EU environmental policies and sustainable development. Before that,

between 1986 and 1996, he was Chairman of Friends of the Earth International.

John Hontelez is a Dutch citizen and has a Masters degree in Non-Western

Sociology, specialised in political anthropology of Latin America.

Bio: Anakarina Pérez Oropeza is currently the Global Engagement Manager of

the Forest Stewardship Council International (FSC). Reporting to the Director

General, she provides core support to achieving FSC's strategic goals by ensuring

strong presence at important advocacy and political events and by strategically

supporting the FSC’s Governance Review and Strategy Implementation processes

as well as the high-level engagement with external supporters. Anakarina has seven

years of experience working with international and multi-stakeholder processes

related to forests, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, development and

climate change. She is Venezuelan and received her Bachelor’s Degree in

International Studies with honours from the Central University of Venezuela and

recently completed the Postgraduate Certificate in Sustainable Value Chains at the

University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership.

Fundación Centro de Gestión Tecnológica e Informática

Industrial (CEGESTI)

2. Elizabeth Venegas

Mata

1. Sylvia Elena

Aguilar

Bio: Sylvia Elena Aguilar is an Industrial Engineer with a Master degree in

Modern Manufacturing Systems from the Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica. She

is a development professional with 15 years of international experience managing

and implementing projects on sustainable development, sustainable public

procurement and policy development for private sector and government clients.

Skilled in project administration, including proposals development. She has

promoted among Central American Authorities public procurement to support

sustainable development, through publications, trainings, technical assistance,

spaces of dialogue and other initiatives for the definition and implementation of

policies that ease access to SMEs and to seek to award bids with better socio-

environmental performance, promoting the concept of "best value for money". In

the case of Costa Rica, the projects have led to new regulations.

Bio: Elizabeth Venegas Mata has a Master degree in Occupational Health,

Instituto Tecnológico de Costa Rica-Universidad Nacional. Chemical Engineer,

Universidad de Costa Rica. In CEGESTI, she is a consultant on Environmental

Management, Waste Management, Social Responsibility, Sustainable Procurement

and Cleaner Production. International Consultant with large experience providing

technical advice and training to companies, public sector and local governments.

Experience in developing writing handbooks on topics such as waste management

and good decent work practices. International speaker in conference in Argentina,

Guatemala, El Salvador and Costa Rica. Professor in the laboratories of the

Schools of Chemistry and Physics of the Universidad de Costa Rica. Investigator

in Biotechnology in the Natural Products Research Center (CIPRONA).

ICLEI – Local Governments for Sustainability (co-lead)

2. Philipp Tepper

1. Mark Hidson

Bio: Mark Hidson joined ICLEI in 2003. He is a member of ICLEI’s Board of

Directors and responsible for ICLEI’s sustainable economy and procurement

portfolio and is also the Global Director of ICLEI’s Sustainable Procurement

Centre. For 16 years he has worked for local, regional and national governments in

project, policy and strategy development on sustainability issues such as

procurement, climate change and transport. Mark oversees ICLEI’s sustainable

procurement campaign Procura+ and ICLEI’s sustainable procurement conference

series, EcoProcura. Mark is Vice-Chair of the International Green Purchasing

Network, Co-Chair of the 10 Year Framework Programme on Sustainable Public

Procurement and a member of various expert groups including the European

Commission’s Green Public Procurement Advisory Group and Public Procurement

Expert Stakeholder Group. Before joining ICLEI Mark worked in local

government on topics such as Local Agenda 21, climate change, mobility

management and community development.

Bio: Philipp Tepper has over ten years experience on International, European and

National projects on Green and Sustainable Public Procurement (GPP/SPP) with a

focus on developing research and guidance on social responsible public

procurement (SRPP), costs and benefits of GPP, criteria and tools in the field of

energy efficient buildings and ICT, innovative approaches in public procurement

(pre-procurement, early market engagement, LCC-CO2 tools) and legal

requirements and opportunities within GPP/SPP. Since 2008 he is the Procura+

Network Manager and co-ordinates various projects such as the GPP 2020 project

on procurement for a low carbon economy, the Update of the EC Buying Green

Handbook, ICLEI’s contribution to the United Nations 10 Years Framework

Programme on SPP and the Training and Services activities carried out with public

authorities.

Indian Railways

2. Sudhir Sharma

1. Sanjay Kumar

Bio: Sanjay belongs to Indian Railways Stores Service (IRSS) cadre of

Government of India. He has two Master degrees in Environmental Engineering

from the Indian Institute of Technology and in Public Policy & Sustainable

Development from the Teri University. He has about 20 years of experience in

public procurement. He is empanelled with the World Bank as Consultant/Trainer

on Public Procurement. He is currently posted in Dedicated Freight Corridor

Corporation India Limited (DFCCIL) and part of the Social and Environmental

Safeguards Management Unit of the organization. He has led various initiatives in

research, advocacy and implementation of SPP programme in India.

Bio: Sudhir belongs to Indian Railways Stores Service (IRSS). He is a Civil

Engineering graduate from the Indian Institute of Technology and has twin Masters

degrees, M.Tech from the Indian Institute of Technology and MBA from Indian

Institute of Management. His areas of expertise include complex public

procurements, contract management, financial management, personnel

management and Vigilance. Sudhir is also associated with capacity development

work for the Government of India and is a National Facilitator in the National Pool

of Trainers of DoPT and UNDP on Leadership Skills. He is also Assistant General

Secratary of Indian Railway Institute of Logistics and Materials Management and

is contributing to capacity building and research in public procurement and supply

chain management in public systems. He is currently posted as Director Railway

Stores Modernisation in Ministry of Railways.

Institut des Finances Basil Fuleihan-Lebanon

2. Rana Rizkallah

Fares

1. Lamia Moubayed

Bissat

Bio: Lamia Moubayed Bissat is the Director of the Institut des Finances Basil

Fuleihan. She teaches public management at the Institute of Political Sciences of

the Université Saint Joseph, in Beirut. She is a development economist with a

Master’s degree from the American University of Beirut. She previously held

senior positions at UNESCWA and UNDP and worked as economist and project

manager in private sector institutions. Her current work involves leading the

Institute and providing Ministers of Finance and senior public officials with policy

advise on capacity development, human capital formation, and institutional reform.

She is founding member of the GIFT-MENA network of civil service training

schools and of the MENAPAR public administration research network. She chaired

the Governance and Public Finance component of the OECD-MENA initiative. She

currently serves on the Roster of Experts of the MENA Transition Fund and is a

member of the World Bank Regional Committee of experts on Public procurement.

Bio: Rana Rizkallah Fares joined the Institute of Finance Basil Fuleihan in 2010

with responsibility for procurement and institutional development. While working

on public procurement related topics, she helped introducing and promoting

sustainable public procurement and helped anchor Lebanon’s position in this

international agenda. Prior to joining the Institute, Rana was involved in complex

IT solutions and has worked with Hewlett-Packard group in Lebanon, and headed

the IT Department of the Lebanese Ministry of Industry for more than 10 years.

Rana holds a Bachelor degree in Business Computer from Université Saint-Joseph

in Beirut and an MBA in Corporate Management from Dauphine University in

Paris and Université Saint-Joseph in Beirut.

International Green Purchasing Network (IGPN)

2. Gakuji Fukatsu

1. Hideki Nakahara

Bio: Hideki Nakahara has been Emeritus Professor of the Faculty of

Environmental and Information Studies of Tokyo City University and Senior

Fellow of the Institute for Global Environmental Strategies (IGES) since April

2016. He is accredited in consumer citizenship education and environmental

education, and the subjects of his current research are Sustainable Consumption

and the Quality of Life. His major publications include Ethical Consumption,

Green Washing and Consumer Rights, Wither Human Ecology, Sharing the World,

Eco-label and Green Marketing, and so on. Formally he served as President of the

Japan Academy of Sustainable Management and is the Chair of the International

Green Purchasing Network (IGPN).

Bio: Gakuji Fukatsu is the Executive Director of the Green Purchasing Network

(GPN) in Japan. His areas of expertise include green purchasing and the

development and dissemination of green purchasing guidelines. He holds a

Bachelor’s degree of Industrial Society, Kansai University, Japan and a Master of

Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba Graduate.

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

2. Liesbeth Casier

1. Oshani Perera

Bio: Oshani Perera is the Director of the Public Procurement and Infrastructure

Finance program of the IISD. She advises governments on smart public

procurement, public-private partnerships (PPPs) and infrastructure financing

strategies to optimize value-for-money, at the point of commissioning and across

the asset life cycle. In the public procurement of goods and services, she focuses on

the design of policies, technical specifications, award criteria and contract

conditions that embed environmental and social performance. In the

commissioning of infrastructure, she focuses on the structuring of project

preparation and of PPPs, developing robust feasibility analyses, optimizing risk

allocation, improving predictability of demand and revenue, channelling capital

towards green and sustainable public assets.

Bio: Liesbeth Casier is a Project Officer in IISD’s Economic Law and Policy

program. Liesbeth is a Sustainable Public Procurement specialist who has done

consulting work with the Inter-American Network for Government Procurement,

the Inter-American Development Bank and the International Development

Research Centre. She has served as an Environment and Trade Consultant with the

United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), where she focused on research

at the intersection of international economic law, trade policy and the environment

and contributed significantly to the IISD-UNEP Trade & Green Economy

Handbook. Liesbeth has a strong background in sustainable development from a

legal and policy perspective. She is currently pursuing an LLB at the University of

London.

International Training Center of the ILO (ITC-ILO)

2. Blerina Pogace

1. Ralf Krüger

Bio: Ralf Krüger is the Manager of the Sustainable Development Programme of

the ITC-ILO, managing a portfolio of training and capacity building activities in

the areas of procurement management, programme and project cycle management,

green jobs, decent work and sustainable development, and multinational enterprises

and global supply chains. Before joining the Centre, Ralf worked at the African

Development Bank as Chief Research Economist focusing on issues of private

sector development. He also held positions at the UN Conference on Trade and

Development and the UN Economic Commission for Africa. Ralf holds a Ph.D. in

Economics and an MBA from University of Giessen, Germany as well as an MA in

Economics from the University of Wisconsin.

Bio: Blerina Pogace is the programme officer in charge of the portfolio of the

activities of the "Procurement Management" Cluster of the Sustainable

Development Programme of the ITCILO delivered in English and in Russian

languages and coordinator for projects of advisory services to country's reform and

programs in capacity building implemented within the Procurement Management

Cluster of the Centre. She holds a PhD in Sustainable Public Procurement from the

University of Naples and a Master in Public Procurement Management from

University of Turin in Italy. With reference to the capacity building sector she has

conducted seminars, workshops, technical meetings and training courses in the

fields of public procurement and governance in Central and East Europe, Central

and South Asia, North and East Africa in collaboration with UN agencies and

International Financial Institutions.

Korea Environmental Industry & Technology Institute

(co-lead)

1. Hyunju Lee

Bio: Hyunju Lee is an Associate Researcher at the Sustainable Lifestyle Office,

Keiti. She is an alternate to the 10YFP National Focal Point of Korea and is in

charge of international cooperation on sustainable consumption and production

including green public procurement and green credit card at KEITI. She is a focal

point of KEITI to the 10YFP Sustainable Public Procurement programme, which is

co-led by UNEP, ICLEI, and KEITI from April 2014, and has been engaging in

some of the core activities including the development of quarterly 10YFP SPP

newsletter, and Global Review on SPP, ASEAN+3 GPPEL project, etc. Prior to

working at KEITI, she served as a consultant for the project Low Carbon Green

Growth Roadmap for Asia and the Pacific at UNESCAP from 2010 to 2012.

Hyunju Lee holds a M.A in Political Science from Yonsei University, R.O.K.

Mauritius Procurement Policy Office

2. Sacheedanand

Tahalooa

1. Dhoorundhur

Mohit

Bio: Dhoorundhur Mohit joined the Ministry of Finance and Economic

Development in 1987. He occupied various senior positions with project finance

and project implementation as core task. He performed as Ag. Permanent

Secretary-Ministry of Finance and Economic Development from Jan 2008-July

2010. He served as Board Director in 17 parastatal organizations including public

companies. Councilor of the University of Mauritius (1997/2006). At the

international level, he was Executive Director of the African Development Bank

Group, Director/Chairman of the Eastern and Southern African Trade and

Development Bank (PTA Bank).

Bio: Sacheedanand Tahalooa is Deputy Director at Procurement Policy Office. He

has worked in Public Procurement for 35 Years in different positions. He

completed successfully LLM in Public Procurement Law and Policy (Nottingham,

UK), MBA (University of Leicester) and CIPS (UK). He is a part time lecturer in

leading Universities over the last 15 years. He has been fully involved in

Sustainable Public Procurement since 2009.

Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment of the

Netherlands

2. Joan Prummel

1. Cuno Van Geet

Bio: Cuno Van Geet is a senior policy expert on sustainable procurement and the

Circular Economy at Rijkswaterstaat and also on behalf of the Ministry of

Infrastructure and the Environment on EU and UN expert groups. He has worked

international development, sustainability, energy and innovation policies at local

and national governmental organizations and as a consultant in UN and EU-

projects. His main driver is strengthening collaboration between practice, policy

and people to drive change in procurement practices. This congress is one example

in which EU, UN and national projects can work together lead the next steps in

policy to enable delivery of more circular economies.

Bio: Joan Prummel is Facilitator Circular Procurement. Joan initiates pilots with

Circular Procurement to reduce the waste of resources. Public procurers have a key

role in making arrangements about the use of products (or their components or the

materials the products are made of) after usage. In this way we contribute to the

acceleration and development of the Circular Economy in The Netherlands.

National Agency for Public Procurement of Sweden

2. Irina Svensson

1. Annie Stålberg

Bio: Annie Stålberg has a long experience of sustainable public procurement. She

is currently Head of the Public Procurement Policy Unit at the National Agency for

Public Procurement. The Procurement Policy Unit gives support to the public

sector on green and sustainable public procurement and how the public sector can

use procurement to reach sustainability goals. The unit is responsible for the

development of the national SPP-criteria. Annie has earlier worked as Head of Unit

responsible of the national support of sustainable public procurement at the

Swedish Competition Authority. She has also worked at the Swedish

Environmental Management Council (SEMCo) which was the Swedish

government’s expert body on sustainable procurement (2003-2015).

Bio: Irina is a senior procurement lawyer with a long working experience on

procurement issues inclusive litigation both at public and private sector. Irina is

currently working at the Public Procurement Policy Unit at the National Agency for

Public Procurement (NAPP). Irina is a project manager of the strategic

procurement project at the NAPP with particular focus on green and sustainable

public procurement, innovation and SME. Besides, she works with different legal

issues on public procurement, including green and sustainable public procurement,

and provides legal support to both public and private sector. Irina has previously

worked as a senior procurement counsel and a Deputy Head of Unit at the Swedish

Completion Authority, procurement lawyer at Nacka Municipality, The Swedish

National Courts Administration and a Law firm.

National Center for Cleaner Production and Environmental

Technologies/CNPMLTA (NCPC Colombia)

2. Marcela Perez

1. Adriana Alzate

Bio: Adriana Alzate is a chemical engineer and has a master in management and

environmental audits in engineering and environmental technology. She is business

manager at the NCPC Colombia. Projects include: definition of the regional policy

sustainable production and consumption, review improvements to the

environmental strategy of a national company, diagnosis cleaner production in

several national companies and sectors, evaluation of indicators for agribusiness in

Latin America, support of implementation of the strategy of Sustainable Public

Procurement, of an Environmental Management System in tourism sector in

Colombia, strategy of sustainable procurement of goods and services by designing

methodological tools and the establishment of technical criteria to ensure the

procurement of goods and services with environmental features in Colombia.

Bio: Marcela Perez has a degree in natural sciences and is an environmental

engineering and an environmental management specialist. She is project manager

at the NCPC Colombia. Projects include: support of local authority in the definition

of the social, environmental and communication plan, implementation of an

environmental management system in tourism sector in Colombia including

national parks, support of implementation of the strategy of Sustainable Public

Procurement, establishment of methodology for developing a sustainability report,

development of a practical guide, support in implementation of certification

Quality Tourism and Colombian Environmental Seal, technical assistance for

preparation of sustainability report for a public entity, institutional strengthening

projects, among other.

Secretariat of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD)

2. Markus Lehmann

1. Kristina Bowers

Bio: Kristina Bowers joined the Secretariat of the Convention on Biological

Diversity (CBD) in September 2013 as Junior Professional Officer for business

engagement. At the Secretariat, she is particularly involved in the work programme

on Sustainable Consumption and Production. Kristina previously worked as Public

Affairs Officer at SITA, a private recycling and waste management company in

Germany. In this position she was responsible for analyzing European

environmental policies, including Sustainable Public Procurement policies.

Kristina holds a Master’s Degree in Public and Private Environmental Management

from Freie University of Berlin, Germany.

Bio: Dr. Markus Lehmann is Senior Programme Management Officer, Economic

and Financial Affairs. Markus is an economist by training and a senior programme

management officer with the Secretariat of the CBD, leading the work on resource

mobilization as well as the economics and trade programmes. He was part of the

core team preparing the report for national and international policymakers under

the global initiative on The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB),

and was the coordinating lead author of chapter 6 of this report, on subsidy reform.

Prior to joining the United Nations, he held various research and teaching positions

in economics in Germany, including with Free University Berlin, the Max Planck

Institute for Research on Collective Goods, and the German Institute for

International and Security Affairs. He published extensively on various aspects of

environmental and resource economics. He holds a doctorate in economics (Dr. rer.

pol.) from Free University Berlin.

SKL Kommentus

2. Åsa Edman

Bio: Åsa Edman works as Chief Legal Officer at SKL Kommentus which owns a

Central Puchasing Body, SKL Kommentus Inköpscentral AB, for Swedish Local

Authorities and their companies as well as a Consultant Company, AffärsConcept

AB, dealing with public procurement services mainly to the Public Sector in

Sweden. She is responsible for the Legal Department dealing with practical

procurement issues of legal character, court proceedings, legal advice… She has

been working with Public Procurement since 1998 mainly within the Swedish

agencies and ministries. She has been Principal Secretary/Project Leader for the

Public Procurement Committee 2010 appointed by the Swedish Government to

evaluate the Public Procurement in Sweden. She has worked with all kind of policy

issues concerning PP, e.g. environmentally and socially responsible public

procurement, innovation procurement, small and medium sized company policy,

anti-corruption policy etc.

1. Peter Nohrstedt

Bio: Peter Nohrstedt works as sustainability manager at SKL Kommentus since

2015. He supports our procurement staff in order to make frame-work contracts

sustainable, with a focus on the sustainability criteria. He is also responsible for a

system that is provided to local authorities in Sweden regarding follow-up on the

social criteria. He has worked with GPP since 1997 in both Stockholm City, in a

National Committee on GPP, in SEMCo, a governmental owned company with

responsibility to provide support to GPP. In SEMCo he was responsible for the

national GPP tool for 11 years. He has also been engaged in the EU GPP expert

group work and also member of the EU stakeholder expert group on public

procurement.

Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council (SPLC)

2. Cuchulain Kelly

1. Christina Macken

Bio: Christina Macken is the Director of Programs for the SPLC, leading the

development of the Council's core program activities, including the Principles for

Leadership in Sustainable Purchasing, Guidance for Leadership v1.0, and Rating

System v1.0. She previously worked at the U.S. Green Building Council where she

served as Program Manager for the LEED v4 development. She has contributed to

the development of standards globally, including the International Advisory Panel

for Socioeconomic Indicators for the Developing World, is a voting member on the

NSF 391.1 Joint Committee on Sustainable Service Providers and the U.S. EPA's

Services Sector Panel. She is a U.S. liaison to the ISO/PC 277 Committee on

Sustainable Procurement, and is a participant on the West Coast Climate and

Materials Management Forum. Christina holds a Bachelor of Arts in Political

Science and Environmental Studies from Allegheny College and a Master of Arts

in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University.

Bio: Cuchulain Kelly coordinates the communication, outreach, and member-

related activities of the Council. In this role, he is responsible for writing the

Council's newsletter, running virtual meetings and trainings, managing the SPLC

Community, handling membership inquiries and media relations, among other

external communication tasks. Before joining the Council, Cuchulain worked as a

consultant for the Sustainable Public Procurement team of the United Nations

Environment Programme in Paris, France. He got his start in sustainable

purchasing at DEKRA Sustainability working on a variety of environmental

consulting projects with a focus on sustainable purchasing guidelines. Cuchulain

speaks English, French, and Spanish. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale

University with a B.S. in Environmental Engineering.

Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN)

2. Marie-Amélie

Dupraz-Ardiot

1. Sebastian König

Bio: Dr. Sebastian König holds an MSc in Climatology and Meteorology from the

University of Bern, Switzerland. He was a research and teaching fellow at the

University of Massachusetts, USA where he acquired a Ph.D. in Geosciences with

a focus on global climate modeling. He was also affiliated to the Business School

and was trained at Cornell University, USA in (project) management. Returning to

Switzerland, he worked at the Federal Office for Meteorology and Climatology

MeteoSwiss in international affairs as a manager of large capacity building projects

worldwide. He joined the International Affairs Division of the Federal Office for

the Environment in 2015 where he has been serving as the Swiss National Focal

Point for UNEP, and also the 10YFP in particular, and is a senior policy advisor for

international sustainable development.

Bio: Ms. Marie-Amélie Dupraz-Ardiot holds a diploma in geology from the

University of Fribourg, Switzerland, and master diploma in Environmental

Management from the Swiss Technical Institute of Technology in Lausanne,

Switzerland. She was a visiting scientist at the Stockholm Resilience Center. She

has been working at the Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN) for 15 years,

first as a policy officer in charge of hazardous and construction waste, then in

charge of sustainable consumption at the Economics Division where she was

representing Switzerland in various European networks. She is now head of the

green public procurement service at FOEN.

United Nations Environment Programme, UNEP (lead)

2. Martina Otto

1. Farid Yaker

Bio: Farid Yaker is in charge of sustainable public procurement (SPP) at the

United Nations Environment Programme, Division of Technology Economics and

Industry, Paris. He represents UNEP in the Coordination Desk of the 10YFP Public

Procurement Programme and oversees the implementation of two ground projects

aimed at assisting 16 countries in the implementation of SPP. Mr Yaker taught

Agricultural economics at the University of Blida, Algeria from 1988 to 1990

before joining the international NGO Enda (Environmental development action)

after the Rio summit that he attended in 1992. After managing an international

programme on the promotion of participatory approaches in the field of urban

environment from 1994 to 1999, Mr Yaker took the direction of the European

office of Enda from 2000 to 2007 before joining UNEP in 2008. Mr Yaker holds a

Masters Degree in Agricultural economics from the University of California at

Davis, USA

Bio: Martina Otto is heading UNEP's work on Cities and Lifestyles. An

environmental professional with over 20 years of experience, she held different

positions in UNEP in areas that are relevant to cities, including climate and clean

air, energy and transport.

United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)

2. Ted MacDonald

1. Alison Kinn

Bennett

Bio: Alison Kinn Bennett is EPA’s Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution

Prevention Senior Advisor for sustainable products and purchasing. She co-

founded two influential networks within EPA, the Green Building Workgroup and

the Sustainable Products & Purchasing Network, which bring together policy and

technical staff to advance comprehensive, life cycle-based approaches to

environmental and human health protection. She represents EPA in the

development of sustainability standards within ASTM International, NSF

International, UL-Environment, and the Cradle to Cradle Product Innovations

Institute. She is leading EPA’s pilot effort to develop Guidelines for assessing

environmental performance standards and ecolabels for use in Federal purchasing

per Presidential Executive Order 13693.

Bio: Ted MacDonald has been working in the EPA’s Office of International and

Tribal Affairs since 1990, currently serving as the Senior Sustainability Officer in

OITA’s Office of Global Affairs and Policy. His responsibilities include advancing

EPA cooperation with various multilateral sustainability initiatives, including the

10YFP launched at Rio+20, and other sustainability-related initiatives with the UN

Environment Programme, OECD, and the G-7. He leads OITA-supported

international cooperation initiatives promoting sustainable public procurement,

establishing a global network of interoperable Life-Cycle Assessment databases to

promote greener products and services; and international cooperation to reduce

food waste through source reduction, recovery and recycling, including under the

North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation. He previously

worked as a Project Manager and Analyst with the Office of Technology

Assessment (U.S. Congress) Food and Renewable Resource Program.