Our Panel 02: Designing Sustainable Value Chains for People & Planet
This panel brings together perspectives from life cycle science, European policy, and sustainability practice to examine how value chains can be designed to deliver genuine benefits for both people and planet. The discussion will span the full breadth of sustainable value chain governance — from LCA and bioeconomy frameworks to the evolving human rights due diligence landscape shaped by legislation such as the CSDDD. Panelists will explore how social and environmental dimensions can be integrated across value chain design, and what this means for practitioners, policymakers, and businesses navigating an increasingly complex regulatory and methodological terrain. Learn more about our panelists below.
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Anneke Bremer is Managing Partner at Sustainable Links, a boutique consultancy helping companies establish and strengthen human rights due diligence. She works with large multinationals and SMEs alike, with a particular focus on embedding human rights due diligence into procurement strategy and processes. Anneke has authored several publications and guidelines on human rights and supply chain due diligence. Before going independent, she held roles at twentyfifty, GIZ, and the Hamburg World Economic Institute.
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Heidi Hautala is former member and Vice-president of the European Parliament and former Minister for International Development and State Ownership Steering in Finland. She played a key role in initiating the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive in the EU. Heidi is a public speaker and works as an independent advisor on Business and Human Rights and of Global Business Initiative on Human Rights and of the board of UN Global Compact Finland. She is also board member of Business and Human Rights Center, Fair Trade Advocacy Office and FERN and member of amfori Stakeholder Advisory Council.
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Alberto Bezama has over 15 years of experience in contaminated site management, waste management, and cleaner production, as well as more than 10 years in the field of sustainability assessment. He holds a degree in Chemical Engineering from the University of Concepción (Chile) and earned his PhD at the Institute for Waste Management and Technology at the University of Leoben (Austria). Since May 2025, he holds the position of Full Professor and Associate Dean (Sustainability) at the Schulich School of Engineering, where he leads the Sustainable Systems Engineering program. Before joining his current position, he led the Working Group on Systems Analysis of the Bioeconomy at Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research (UFZ) in Leipzig, Germany.
