SPEAKER'S PROFILES
Claus Conzelmann
Claus Conzelmann has been driving the Nestlé Group’s performance in environmental sustainability and workplace health & safety since 2004. His major focus areas have been the significant reduction of work-related accidents, leveraging Nestlé employees as ambassadors for the Group’s nutrition, health and wellness strategy and integrating environmental considerations, especially water conservation and governance, into all aspects of the business, from product development, sourcing, manufacturing to marketing.
Since 1991 with Nestlé, Claus held various strategic and operational positions in Switzerland, Germany and Australia, incl. regulatory affairs, biotechnology policy, factory management, and operations improvement.
Claus holds a Ph.D in molecular biology from Manchester University in the UK. He was previously Business Development Manager with Ciba-Geigy Agro (now Syngenta) and worked for several years as science journalist in Germany and the UK.
Nestlé is the world’s largest food, nutrition, health and wellness company with sales in excess of $ 80 billion and some 500 manufacturing sites in over 80 countries.
