Dirk Carrez
Executive Director, Bio-based Industries Consortium
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The World BioEconomy Roundtables are online events that follow the agenda of the on-going season. Hard talk – Easy Access – Relaxed Environment.
The Roundtables are moderated by bioeconomy professionals who, together with high profile speakers, engage in hard talks on the World BioEconomy Forum Four-Pillar Strucuture: The Bioeconomy: People, Planet, Policies; Global Leaders and Financial World; Bioproducts around us; Looking to the Future. All these events will last approximately two hours and will be easy and safe to access over the Internet, regardless of the location. The World BioEconomy Forum team will ensure a relaxed environment, supporting you every step of the way. Join us and be part of the world of Bioeconomy!
Save the date: the next World BioEconomy Roundtable
11 April 2024 11:00-12:00 EET – Live steam on the World Bioeconomy YouTube
The Roundtable will be held on 11 April 2024 11:00-12:00 EET with the topic Bioproducts as investments – Drivers and obstacles.
The World BioEconomy Roundtable is arranged in collaboration with the Pulp & Beyond 2024 in Helsinki, Finland.
In the realm of sustainable economics, bioeconomy investments have emerged as a focal point of interest, driven by a confluence of factors such as environmental awareness and resource efficiency. This concise review explores the pivotal drivers propelling investments in bioproducts, the supportive regulatory environment, burgeoning investment fields, and the evolving perceptions of the financial world towards bioeconomy ventures.
As stakeholders navigate this dynamic landscape, opportunities abound for those poised to capitalize on the transformative potential of the bioeconomy.
Opening remarks by Jukka Kantola
Keynote:
Investing in new biorefineries – Drivers and Obstacles
Dirk Carrez, Executive Director, Bio-based Industries Consortium
Panel on Bioproducts as investments – Drivers and obstacles
Bernardita Araya, Head of CMPC Ventures
Petri Hakanen, CTO, UPM
Christian Orglmeister, Executive Officer, New BioBusinesses and Corporate Strategy, Suzano
Peep Pitk, CEO, OÜ Fibenol
Closing words
Executive Director, Bio-based Industries Consortium
Head of CMPC Ventures
CTO, UPM
Executive Officer, New BioBusinesses and Corporate Strategy, Suzano
CEO, OÜ Fibenol
Founder and CEO, World BioEconomy Forum
Professor Emeritus, Antwerp University Senior Advisor, World Bioeconomy Forum
Save the date: the next World BioEconomy Roundtable
28 June 2023 13:00–15:00 BST – Online event via Zoom Webinar
The Roundtable will be held on 28 June 2023 13:00–15:00 BST with the topic Financing the bioeconomy.
The bioeconomy is growing interest also as investment opportunity. Current value in is said to be about 4 trillion USD and there are expectations that its value will be almost 30 trillion USD. Only during recent 16 months major economies like USA and China have increased their activities in this space and India is bringing the bioeconomy for the first time in the G20 agenda.
In the Roundtable we will hear a review on a status of the global economy and insights by experts on bioeconomy as investment destination.
One cannot miss this!
Founder and CEO, World BioEconomy Forum
Executive Director, Sustainability Accelerator, Chatham House
Policy Analyst, OECD
Global Public Affairs Director, NatureWorks
Business Director Biopolymers EMEA /
Advocacy & Sustainability director Europe & Asia at Braskem
Research Programme Director
Biotechnology & Biosourcing at Unilever
Deputy Managing Director of Environment at BNDES
Managing Director at HamiltonClark
Director of Policy and External Affairs,
BTG Pactual Timberland Investment Group
25 April 2023 15:00–17:30 (EAT) 14:00–16:30 (CET) – Online event via Zoom Webinar
The Roundtable will be held on 25 April 2023 15:00–17:30 (EAT) 14:00–16:30 (CET) with the topic Witnessing a new era for the bioeconomy in Africa.
Africa is the next big opportunity for the Bioeconomy with its huge reservoirs in biomass, unused arable land and untapped treasures of biodiversity.
But it also needs to respect its continental boundaries, its large dominating rural areas, but also emerging preurban and urban agglomerations, and its small retail economic structures which cannot be compared with other continents.
South Africa for more than a decade is leading the development of a Bioeconomy in Africa, recently followed by the East African Union, Namibia etc. This is the first time that a dedicated African Round Table takes place in which the many diverse aspects of African bioeconomies from North to South and East to West are discussed.
Come and join this unique event!
Honourable Chair of the World Bioeconomy Forum Advisory Board
Founder, World BioEconomy Forum
Board member, National Environment Council, Vice Chairperson, Biotechnology Society of Tanzania
Executive on Bio-Economy at Technology Innovation Agency, South Africa
Manager of the Biotechnology Division, National Commission on Research, Science and Technology, Namibia
Regional Thematic Coordinator, WASCAL, Burkina Faso
Deputy Executive Secretary (Projects and Programme) at East Africa Science and Technology Commission
“Father” of the European Bioeconomy, Co-founder, Honorary Chair of the Advisory Board
Executive on Bio-Economy at Technology Innovation Agency, South Africa
Regional Thematic Coordinator, WASCAL, Burkina Faso
Deputy Executive Secretary (Projects and Programme) at East Africa Science and Technology Commission
Manager for the Biotechnology Division at the National Commission on Research, Science and Technology (NCRST), Namibia
Center Director of Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) Africa
Founder and CEO, World BioEconomy Forum
Board member, National Environment Council, Vice Chairperson, Biotechnology Society of Tanzania, Advisory Board, World BioEconomy Forum
15 February 2023 13:00–15:00 CET – Online event via Zoom Webinar
The Roundtable will be held on 15 February 2023 13:00-15:00 CET with the topic Biorevolution knocking on the door.
The World BioEconomy Roundtable is arranged with a strategic partner G-STIC in Rio de Janeiro.
Senior advisor, Sustainable Chemistry Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO), Professor Emeritus at Antwerp University, Chair of the Advisory and Programming Group of Processes4PlanetT
Co-founder, World BioEconomy Forum
Founder, World BioEconomy Forum
Head of Strategic Planning and Corporate Communication, Novamont
National Agricultural Research Organization
Managing Director, Productive Development,
Foreign Trade and Innovation BNDES
Executive President, Brazilian Bioinnovation Association – ABBI
Professor, Deputy Director-General, Tianjin Institute of Industrial Biotechnology, Chinese Academy of Sciences
Head of Strategic Relationships, Checkerspot
14 June 2022 15:00–17:00 CET – Online event via Zoom Webinar
Co-founder, World BioEconomy Forum Board
Co-founder, World BioEconomy Forum
Founder, World BioEconomy Forum
The Roundtable will be held on 14 June 2022 15:00–17:00 CET with the topic Forest Industry Leaders – What role does the forest industry play in climate change mitigation?
President and CEO, Metsä Group
President and CEO,
Forest Products Association of Canada, FPAC
CEO, Suzano
CEO, New Forests
7 April 2022 15:00–17:00 CET – Online event via Zoom Webinar
The Roundtable will be held on 7 April 2022 15:00–17:00 CET with the topic Follow up on latest biostrategies.
In the roundtable we will follow up and deepen discussions on the developments of recent national and regional Biostrategies and Bioinitiatives introduced and discussed in the World BioEconomy Forum 2022 (Colombia, State of Para, Brazil, Portugal, Region of Catalonia, Spain, East African Union and Indonesia)
“Father” of the European Bioeconomy, Co-founder, Honorary Chair of the Advisory Board
Co-founder, World BioEconomy Forum
Founder, World BioEconomy Forum
Director of Climate Change, Environmental Services and Bioeconomy at the Pará Environment and Sustainability Secretariat, Brazil
Advisor to the Minister of Environment and Climate Action, Portugal
Programme Manager at BioInnovate Africa
Responsible for External Relations, Ministry of Agriculture, Livestock, Fisheries and Food, Government of Catalonia
Coordinator of the implementation of the Mission de Sabios’ Recommendations at the Ministry of Science, Technology and Innovation of Colombia
10 February 2022 15:00–17:00 CET – Online event via Zoom Webinar
Research Manager, VITO, Chair of the Advisory and Programming Group of Processes4Planet, World BioEconomy Forum Advisory Board Member
Founder, World BioEconomy Forum
World BioEconomy Circle – membership programme director
Adjunct Professor, The University of British Columbia
Sustainable Architect, Portfolio Leader “Trees for High Value Wood Products” Scion
Principal Researcher in Bioforest, Arauco
RLP Rüdiger Lainer + Partners
Chairman of the Board of Directors and Member of the Executive Board, Lüchinger + Meyer
15 September 2021 15:00–17:00 CEST
The Roundtable will be held on 15 September 2021 15:00-17:00 CEST with the topic What does the bioeconomy mean for Brazil and the Amazon?
Secretary of State for the Environment of Pará
Director of bioeconomy, climate change and environmental services from Environment and sustainability Secretariat of Pará
PhD, Executive Director of Instituto Clima e Sociedade (iCS)
Forest Engineer at the Federal Rural University of Rio de Janeiro
Leader of Apiwtxa village, an advisor and secretary of the State Government for Indigenous Peoples between 2003 and 2010
Founder and CEO, World BioEconomy Forum
Co-Founder, Advisory Board
18 May, 2021 15:00–17:00 CET
The Roundtable will be held on 18 May 2021 15:00-17:00 CET with the topic “Bio-based Investments – it takes 3 to tango” Roles of private – public – institutes to facilitate investments to circular bioeconomy.
Founding Partner, European Circular Bioeconomy Fund
Secretary of State for Economic Development, Science, Technology and Innovation Government of Amazonas
President, Association of the Specialists of the Pulp and Paper Industry (ASPPI) Russia
Executive Director Bioindustrial Innovation Canada
Executive Director, Bio-based Industries Joint Undertaking
Founder and CEO, World BioEconomy Forum
Co-Founder, Advisory Board
4 February, 2021 15:00–17:00 CET
The Roundtable will be held on 4 February 2021 15:00–17:00 CET, with the topic “Biostrategies overview” – status on the programs in various parts of the world.
“Father” of the European Bioeconomy, Co-founder, Honorary Chair of the Advisory Board
Advisor in Natural Resource Economics and Climate Change in the Office of Agricultural Planning and Policy of the Ministry of Livestock, Agriculture and Fisheries (MGAP) of Uruguay
Associate Laboratory Director for Biosciences at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA
Head of Division, Industrial Affairs, Chemical, Textile, Woodworking and Paper Industry, Bioeconomy, Bavarian Ministry of Economic Affairs, Regional Development and Energy, Germany
Ph.D., Director of Information Research Department and Executive director of Center for Strategic Studies on Bioscience and Biotechnology (CaSBIO), Chengdu Library and Information Center Chinese Academy of Sciences
Founder and CEO, World BioEconomy Forum
Co-Founder, Advisory Board
25 November, 2020 13:00–15:00 CET
The first Roundtable will be held on 25 November, 2020, 13:00 – 15:00 CET, with the theme “Bioproducts around us” – Lessons from various value chains
Professor Emeritus, Antwerp University Senior Advisor, World Bioeconomy Forum
Director, Sustainable Sourcing, Digital and Carbon Solutions, Unilever
Head of Monitoring and Funding, Global R&D, Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft
Vice President, UPM Biochemicals Business
Technical Sales Manager, Braskem
Founder and CEO, World BioEconomy Forum
Co-Founder, Advisory Board