Dr. Rana Pant

Dr. Rana Pant, born 1964 in Essen, Germany, is an environmental engineer by training (Technical University Berlin) with a focus on solid waste management. He holds a PhD in engineering from the Darmstadt University of Technology with a thesis in the area of Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in Design for Environment (DfE). Before joining the European Commission at the Joint Research Centre (JRC, Ispra, Italy) in 2008, he worked over 8 years with a multinational consumer goods company on topics related to integrated waste management and LCA. At the JRC Rana was applying Life Cycle Thinking to solid waste management and as team leader he guided the technical/scientific development of the Environmental Footprint and the JRC work on plastics LCA. In December 2019, he moved to the Directorate General for the Environment (DG ENV) of the Commission in Brussels, mainly dealing with the Single-Use Plastics (SUP) Directive. Since November 2021 he is working in the Environmental Footprint team of DG ENV in the Circular Economy, Sustainable Production and Consumption Unit, the unit that has led the development of the proposed Green Claims Directive