Mark Starmanns

Associate Director, Sustainability Consulting – EMEA

Mark is a Senior Consultant in Supply Chain Consulting projects and based in Zurich, Switzerland. He has been working on global supply chains and sustainability standards for the last 15 years, and more recently working a lot on Human Rights Due Diligence projects. Prior to his work for ELEVATE, Mark worked at the University of Zurich and the Wuppertal Institute for Climate, Environment and Energy as a researcher.

Mark holds a M.A. in Geography and received a PhD from the University of Cologne. In this thesis he analysed CSR and Social Standards in the Textile industry. Mark is HIGG BRM verifier and teaches courses on social standards at fashion schools.