Quality Board

Minna-Maari works as Principal Lecturer of Corporate Responsibility at Haaga-Helia, where she oversees curriculum development, teaching and the company and social outreach related to CSR. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Jyväskylä. Her dissertation focused on the industry wide sustainability effects of technology investments (2001). Minna-Maari has written books on corporate responsibility and the sharing economy as well as various articles in scientific journals. She has lived and worked abroad. Her areas of interest and expertise are corporate responsibility, sharing economy, disruptive business models, sustainability marketing and communication and strategic CSR.

Sylvia Lorek is working as a researcher and policy consultant for sustainable consumption. She holds a Ph.D. in consumer economics based on degrees in home economics and nutrition and macro economics. This provides her with the tools – the individual micro-economic and the societal macroeconomic – for a well-founded analysis of the contexts, in which the scientific and societal discourses about sustainable consumption take place.

Anne Ehringhaus is Principal Consultant at ECCO., a consulting firm specializing in intercultural team building workshops and cultural competence development. She has been engaged in conceptual work that incorporates cultural competence as an indicator of sustainability. Anne integrates sustainability concepts in her work by focusing on the aspects of wellbeing and healthy systems.

Anne holds a Master’s degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Koblenz-Landau and is a certified Systemic Organizational Consultant through the Institute of Systemic Consulting in Wiesloch, Germany. She is also a certified practitioner of Process-oriented Embodiment-focused Psychotherapy. Anne has presented at intercultural conferences and at universities.

A native of Germany, Anne has supported groups and individuals in the US, Germany and Indonesia since 1998. After having lived in the US for 15 years, she moved back to Germany where she currently works as a Clinical Psychologist supporting families and migrants.

Gregor Torkar is associate professor of biology education working in the Department of Biology, Chemistry and Home Economics at the University of Ljubljana, Faculty of Education in Slovenia. His academic research interests include biology education, nature conservation, environmental education and education for sustainable living. He is a co-editor and co-author of a series of active methodology toolkits for sustainable living, and currently involved in national and international research projects on these areas.