Expertise & Experience

As sustainability engineer (Master of Enginerring) Susanne brings in expertise on Circular Economy, Sustainable Consumption and Production, Life Cycle Thinking and change management. Strong conceptual knowledge on SCP, green and circular economy as well as environmental economics provide the basis for Susanne’s work. Analytic thinking, and conceptual strength qualify her as journalist, project manager or assessor. In 2017, Susanne was certified as qualified project manager by TÜV Süd.

More than 20 years’ experience with communication and awareness raising in the areas of environmental, economic, and social sustainability, have equipped her with the strong ability of translating and communicating complex topics such as SCP or gender related issues to a broad audience of stakeholders and target groups of public and private sector, civil society, and the general public.

Thorough professional experience in project planning, evaluation, and impact monitoring add to extensive experience in organizing and facilitating events. Over the years, she has built her broad portfolio of developing communication and advocacy strategies, conceptualization, authoring and editing of publications, and development and implementation of awareness campaigns in a number of relevant sustainability related projects and organisations in Europe and Asia.

Education

Master of Engineering; Sustainability in Economic Cycles, Hochschule Mittweida, 2017

Master of Arts (MA) English, Communication Science and Dutch at Westfälische Wilhems Universität Münster, Germany und Rijksuniversiteid Leiden, Netherlands, 1984.

Executive Education

Impact Monitoring and Evaluation with ICT/ILO

Graphic facilitation with Alchemy

Conflict Resolution with Dirk Sprenger

Project Management with Synthese

Skills

Communication and knowledge management

  • External Communication
  • Strategic communication
  • Press work
  • Campaign development
  • Social media
  • Networks
  • Knowledge management

Analysis and Planning

  • Strategic Planning
  • Participatory planning methods
  • Operational planning
  • Gender-Analyse
  • Development of project proposals

Capacity Development

  • Training of Trainers (TOT)/ didactics
  • Adult learning theory
  • Facilitation of workshops and events

Monitoring and Evaluation

  • Project evaluation
  • Establish impact oriented Monitoring systems

Languages

  • German
  • English
  • Dutch