Expertise from Chemnitz University of Technology in Demand on the Advisory Council for Future Innovation

Prof. Dr. Marlen Arnold from the Professorship for Corporate Environmental Management and Sustainability is a member of one of the Saxon State Ministry for Energy, Climate Protection, Environment, and Agriculture’s committees.

Prof. Dr. Marlen Arnold, holder of the Professorship for Corporate Environmental Management and Sustainability at Chemnitz University of Technology, has been appointed to the Ministry's Advisory Council for Future Innovation by Wolfram Günther, Saxon State Minister for Energy, Climate Protection, Environment, and Agriculture (SMEKUL). The SMEKUL's Advisory Council for Future Innovation is an advisory board of experts meeting twice a year. The advisory board members provide support and advice to the ministry on innovative future topics in all areas of the ministry’s expertise. Currently, the Advisory Council for Future Innovation has 15 members. The current appointment period will end in December 2023.

For the first time the advisory board met on March 8, 2021 and discussed, among others, the ministry's concept of future innovation. During the virtual meeting, the minister Günther emphasized, "The consequences of climate change and the biodiversity crisis are becoming increasingly obvious. That's why we need a swift shift toward a circular, sustainable economy. Society and business are ready with creative ideas, social innovations, and innovative technologies. Politicians and administrators have a responsibility to bring together input, the regulatory framework, and funding opportunities, but also, of course, to further develop their own innovative capacities. Sustainability is a broad social demand and has long been an issue for Saxony. The Advisory Council for Future Innovation will be a partner and driver for our innovation concept."

Misses Arnold is very happy to contribute her professorship’s expertise to the Advisory Council for Future Innovation. "I am looking forward to working with colleagues from Germany and Switzerland in the following years. The systemic consideration of very specific innovations and their rebound effects, sustainability and circularity is particularly important for me."

The following 15 members are involved in the Future Innovation Advisory Board:

• Prof. Dr. Marlen Arnold, the Professorship for Corporate Environmental Management and Sustainability, Chemnitz University of Technology
• Prof. Dr. Christian Calliess, Department of Law, Free University of Berlin
• Prof. Dr. Christina Dornack, Institute of Waste Management and Circular Economy, TU Dresden
• Judith Faller-Moog, Management, Bioplanete - Oil Mill Moog
• Prof. Dr. Edeltraut Günther, Chair of Business Management, esp. Sustainability Management and Environmental Accounting, TU Dresden
• Prof. Dr. Thomas Herlitzius, Chair of Agricultural Systems and Technology, TU Dresden
• Prof. Dr. Reinhard Loske, President of the School of Social Design, Cusanus University of Applied Sciences Bernkastel-Kues
• Dr. Juliane Mathey, Leibnitz Institute for Ecological and Regional Development Dresden
• Claudia Miersch, State Association Sustainable Saxony e.V.
• Prof. Dr. Volker Quaschning, Professor for Renewable Energy Systems at the HTW Berlin – University of Applied Sciences
• Prof. Dr. Andreas Roloff, Chair of Forest Botany, TU Dresden
• Prof. Dr. Catrin Schmidt, Chair of Landscape Planning, TU Dresden
• Prof. Dr. Knut Schmidtke, Director of Research, Extension, & Innovation, Research Institute of Organic Agriculture Switzerland
• Prof. Dr. Alexander Starke, Director of the Clinic for Ruminants and Swine, University of Leipzig
• Prof. Dr. Georg Teutsch, Scientific Managing Director, Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research

About Prof. Dr. Marlen Arnold

Following her studies in business administration (specializing in environmental economics, organization and human resources, and business and labor law) at the University of Münster, Misses Arnold worked as a research assistant at the University of Oldenburg, where she also completed her doctorate in 2006. After that she worked at the Institute for Ecological Economic Research Berlin, at the Technical University of Munich and as a Research Fellow at the University of Vaasa and Hanken School of Economics in Finland. She received the Venia Legendi for the field of business administration in 2016 with the help of her habilitation on the topic of "Sustainability as a strategic implication for anchoring in innovation processes." Misses Arnold has held the Professorship for Corporate Environmental Management and Sustainability at the Faculty of Economics and Business Administration since April 1, 2017 after representing the professorship in the winter semester 2016/2017 cum spe. In November 2019, she was appointed to Presidential Representative for Sustainable Campus Development at Chemnitz University of Technology and assigned the leadership of the Sustainable Campus Development working group. Since February 2020, Misses Arnold has been involved in the Strategy for the Further Development of ESD in the Saxony advisory group advising the Saxon state government on the implementation of the Saxon State Strategy for Education for Sustainable Development (ESD).

Contact: Prof. Dr. Marlen Gabriele Arnold, phone: 0371 531-37012 (department office), e-mail: nachhaltigkeit@wirtschaft.tu-chemnitz.de

(Author: Mario Steinebach / Translation: Chelsea Burris)

Matthias Fejes
10.03.2021

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