Colloquium: Franziska Killiches
Wednesday, Oct 6, 2021, at 12.15 - 13.30
Room RZ F 21 or Online, Zoom | Sign up here
Responsible raw material extraction for car manufacturing – procurement strategies at the Volkswagen Group
As one of the largest automotive companies in the world, Volkswagen has a significant raw material footprint. With this comes a responsibility for the environmental and social impacts along the supply chain. The presentation of Franziska Killiches outlines the activities of the group’s procurement unit around sustainability issues in mineral resources supply chains, including when it comes to e-mobility strategies. Social aspects and environmental impacts around lithium or cobalt mining are a focus of this talk.
About Franziska Killiches
Franziska Killiches, 35, has been working in the Volkswagen Group's “Sustainability Strategy Procurement” department since the beginning of 2019, where she is in charge of the responsible procurement of raw materials. Before that, the political scientist and water economist from Berlin worked as a consultant at the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit mbH (GIZ) on topics such as human rights, the fight against corruption and sustainability in the mining and raw materials sector.