Alena Hänsch has more than 10 years of experience in implementing projects in the field of environmental management and product design. Her focus is on environmental due diligence (EDD), risk assessment of environmental risk factors, and the integration of eco-design principles into the innovation process. Due to her many years of work on large projects with a large number of project participants and stakeholders, she specialises in project management and account management. She also has international experience in environmental research and consulting and as a design coordinator in the consumer goods industry.
She studied industrial design at the Pontificia Bolivariana University in Medellín, Colombia, and completed her master’s degree in industrial ecology (M.Sc.) at Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands.