CleanMed Europe

Nicolai Schaaf

Programme Manager, Stockholm International Water Institute, SIWI (Sweden)

Nicolai Schaaf is responsible for SIWI’s work on water and pharmaceuticals, leading projects and stakeholder dialogue focusing on sustainable supply chains and procurement of pharmaceuticals, especially in the context of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance. The goal is to engage the industry as well as customers or regulators to improve the mutual understanding of the supply and demand perspective on sustainability in pharmaceuticals manufacturing. This encloses working on the technical factory level as well as establishing multi stakeholder dialogue platforms. He also coordinates SIWI’s policy dialogue and represents SIWI in the Swedish section of the International Water Association (IWA). Nicolai has over 10 years of experience in the fields of climate change, biodiversity, water and development having worked in both Sweden and Germany. Prior to joining SIWI, he worked for the parliamentary group of the Green Party in Germany.

Sessions

Thursday 11th October

Plenary 2 - Safer pharma: Partnerships for cleaner water, healthier products and innovative solutions