About this SPEAKER
Chris Koffler is the Technical Director for the Americas of Sphera’s Sustainability Consulting practice. In this role he is responsible for the quality of all sustainability consulting projects, methodological development, project oversight, and is the primary lead in key selected areas, such as the automotive sector. Chris received his Doctorate in Engineering from the Darmstadt University of Technology in 2007. His PhD work was on Automotive Product Life Cycle Assessment. He has published numerous papers in the field of Life Cycle Assessment and frequently provides his expertise in peer and critical reviews. Chris is the current Chair of the Joint SETAC/ACLCA LCA Interest Group Steering Committee, he is co-chairing the sub-task Weighting in LCA under the UNEP GLAM initiative, and he is a board member at the American Center for Life Cycle Assessment (ACLCA). He has represented the U.S. in the development of various LCA-related ISO standards in the past and has taught Product Life Cycle Assessment at Yale’s School of the Environment and the Harvard Extension School.