The Steering Committee
The Steering Committee, consisting of 5 members, is responsible for the progress of the StEP initiative.
Chair of the StEP Steering Committee
Cox-Kearns, Jean
Senior Take Back and Recycling Manager
Dell Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA)
Have been focused on Take Back and Recycling since May, 2004. Responsible for driving the implementation of computer recycling initiatives across the EMEA region while also ensuring full compliance with the WEEE legislation (Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment) and programmes to support Dell’s policy of Individual Producer Responsibility.
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StEP Steering Committee
Döfnäs, Per
Per Döfnäs has worked for Ericsson since 1979, working with product specifications and verification for compliance with applicable technical regulations worldwide, as well as international standardisation in the area.
For more than 15 years Per has been engaged in initiatives related to the shaping of product regulation for the electrical sector. Since 5 years he is responsible for general matters related to Technical Regulations within the Ericsson Group. This nowadays mostly relate to influencing environmental legislation for eco-design, hazardous substances and waste.
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Hagelüken, Christian
Senior Manager Business Development, Market Research & Marketing at Umicore Precious Metals Refining, Hanau, Germany and Hoboken/Antwerp, Belgium Ph.D, MSc in Mining Engineering, MSc in Industrial Engineering Numerous publications on metals recycling and materials flow analysis.
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Hengrasmee, Charuek
1967-2000: ESSO Standard Thailand/Exxon Mobil Thailand, Project Engineering, Operations, Planning & Evaluation, Sales & Marketing, Human Resources and Business Line (Lubricant) Management. Since 2000: President of Electrical and Electronics Institute, Foundation for Industrial Development, Ministry of Industry, Thailand.
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Sonnemann, Guido
Programme Officer United Nations Environment Programme, Division of Technology, Industry and Economic, Production and Consumption Unit in Paris (France). He holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University Rovira & Virgili, Spain (2002) and graduated from the Technical University of Berlin, Germany (1995) with a specialization in environmental engineering.
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Widmer, Rolf
MSc in electrical engineering and MBA for development co-operation. Recently he joined the Technology and Society Lab at EMPA (Switzerland), a research institution belonging to the ETH domain. Project Manager Knowledge Partnerships in e-waste Recycling, which started in 2003. Co-founder of the entec ag, a Swiss company specialized in decentralized hydro power for rural energy supply. He is the author of several publications in this field.
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Ex Officio
Kuehr, Ruediger
Head of the European Focal Point of United Nations University's Zero Emissions Forum (since 1999) in Bonn (Germany), Secretary of the Alliance for Global Eco-Structuring (AGES), Political and Social Scientist
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Former Steering Committee Members
de Leeuw, Bas (active in 2007)
Head, Integrated Resource Management, Division of Technology, Industry and Economics, UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme), based in Paris. His responsibilities include supervising the Secretariat of the International Panel for Sustainable Resource Management and UNEP's work on life cycle management, sustainable innovation, ecolabelling and SCP indicators and national programmes, which is being carried out as contribution to the ten-year framework on sustainable consumption and production (the Marrakech process). Bas de Leeuw is acting chair of the International Life Cycle Panel (ILCP) and he represents UNEP in the Management and Policy Committee of the UNEP/Wuppertal Institute Collaborating Centre on SCP. He is an economist from the Rotterdam Erasmus University the Netherlands.
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Hieronymi, Klaus (active from 2004-2007)
Hewlett Packard, Head of the Environmental Affairs Department EMEA, based in Germany, member of ERP (Environmental Recycling Platform), studies in "Natural Science" and "Business Management"
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Radulovic, Verena (active from 2006-2008)
Program manager for EPA’s Plug-In To eCycling campaign in the EPA’s Office of Solid Waste. Prior to joining the EPA, she was at the Environmental Law Institute in Washington DC, where she worked with industry to incorporate more pollution prevention measures into their operations.
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