ISO - Building trust in conformity assessment of sustainability matters

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Previously, Patrick worked for the Australian Government, the United Nations, and—most recently—as an independent consultant. He is also the Head of Strategic Partnerships at the Institute for Global Negotiation, and a Senior Legal Consultant at Lexbridge Lawyers. Patrick has moderated previous workshops related to conformity assessment and digitalization.</p> </div> </div> </div><h3>Speakers</h3><div class="vcard contact clearfix" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"> <div class="figure-box"> <figure class="circle"> <img loading="lazy" src="/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/contacts/External/jerome.jpg/thumbnails/150x150" srcset=" /files/live/sites/isoorg/files/contacts/External/jerome.jpg/thumbnails/150x150 150w,/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/contacts/External/jerome.jpg/thumbnails/300x300 300w,/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/contacts/External/jerome.jpg/thumbnails/600x600 600w,/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/contacts/External/jerome.jpg/thumbnails/900x900 900w," sizes="150px" class="photo img-fluid" alt="Jérôme Petry" border="0" /> </figure> </div> <div class="content-box"> <div class="fn n h5"> <span class="given-name" itemprop="givenName">Jérôme</span> <span class="family-name" itemprop="familyName">Petry</span> </div> <hr class="width-100"/> <div class="note"><p>Jérôme holds a Master’s degree in Physics and an MBA, both from the University of Strasbourg. Before joining the Ministry of the Economy of Luxembourg in 2018, he worked for 15 years in the electronics industry. He works at the Directorate General for Industry, New Technologies, and Research, where he is in charge of circular economy, cleantech and smart cities, and leading the Product Circularity Data Sheet Initiative. Since April 2021, he has been the editor of ISO 59040, Circular economy — Product circularity data sheet, and the Convenor of ISO/TC 323/WG 5, responsible for the new standard on the Product Circularity Data Sheet.</p> </div> </div> </div><div class="vcard contact clearfix" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"> <div class="figure-box"> <figure class="circle"> <img loading="lazy" src="/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/contacts/External/Katherina.jpg/thumbnails/150x150" srcset=" /files/live/sites/isoorg/files/contacts/External/Katherina.jpg/thumbnails/150x150 150w,/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/contacts/External/Katherina.jpg/thumbnails/300x300 300w,/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/contacts/External/Katherina.jpg/thumbnails/600x600 600w,/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/contacts/External/Katherina.jpg/thumbnails/900x900 900w," sizes="150px" class="photo img-fluid" alt="Katharina Zuegel" border="0" /> </figure> </div> <div class="content-box"> <div class="fn n h5"> <span class="given-name" itemprop="givenName">Katharina</span> <span class="family-name" itemprop="familyName">Zuegel</span> </div> <hr class="width-100"/> <div class="note"><p>Katharina is Policy Manager at the Forum on Information and Democracy, where she notably leads policy analysis and the development of policy recommendations. She has co-authored a report on setting democratic rules for artificial intelligence (AI as a Public Good). This report inspired the development of a concept for a potential voluntary certification mechanism for public interest AI. She is currently further exploring the creation of such a mechanism. Previously, Katharina worked as the Vice-Director of the French citizen participation association Décider ensemble and as a policy analyst on open government issues at the OECD.</p> </div> </div> </div><div class="vcard contact clearfix" itemscope itemtype="https://schema.org/Person"> <div class="figure-box"> <figure class="circle"> <img loading="lazy" src="/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/contacts/External/isaac_beevor_headshot.jpg/thumbnails/150x150" srcset=" /files/live/sites/isoorg/files/contacts/External/isaac_beevor_headshot.jpg/thumbnails/150x150 150w,/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/contacts/External/isaac_beevor_headshot.jpg/thumbnails/300x300 300w,/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/contacts/External/isaac_beevor_headshot.jpg/thumbnails/600x600 600w,/files/live/sites/isoorg/files/contacts/External/isaac_beevor_headshot.jpg/thumbnails/900x900 900w," sizes="150px" class="photo img-fluid" alt="Isaac Beevor" border="0" /> </figure> </div> <div class="content-box"> <div class="fn n h5"> <span class="given-name" itemprop="givenName">Isaac</span> <span class="family-name" itemprop="familyName">Beevor </span> </div> <hr class="width-100"/> <div class="note"><p>Isaac began his career working and campaigning in local climate policy in Metro Vancouver, managing volunteers and working on campaigns to support Vancouver's low-emission buildings policy and introducing an annual measuring and reporting system across Metro Vancouver. 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