Michael Binder

Director for Sustainability Development of Nutricion & Care Dr. Michael Binder is Director for Sustainability Development of Nutricion & Care of the Evonik GmbH and holds a degree in technical biology at the University of Stuttgart in Germany. Within Evonik Nutrition&Care GmbH, he takes care of international sustainability programs and projects for feed and food systems transferring LCA approaches into marketing concepts. He further presents Evonik in the EU Association of Specialty Feed Ingredients and their Mixtures (FEFANA), where he headed the technical advisory group of the SFIS project phase II. He is also member of the IFIF board of directors and the sustainability committee. As a member of the Technical Advisory Board of the PEFCR on behalf of the Technical Secretariat of the pilot on feed for food producing animals he also worked with the DG Environment of the European Commission for setting standards in sustainability measurements. Further Michael Binder supports the FAO teams (Food and Agriculture Organisation of o the United Nations) or writing guidelines on nutrient flows and the use use of feed additives within the LEAP (Livestock environmental Assessment and Performance) program.