Resources as a Bottleneck for the Energy Transition: The Role of China and What the EU Can Do on July 14, 2025

The Student Forum in the Tönissteiner Circle e.V. invites the Ivy Cirlce Munich to a panel discussion on July 14, 2025; starting on 6pm (REGISTRATION required pls. see below)

Panelists are:

Anne Lauenroth is Deputy Head of Department at the Federation of German Industries (BDI). She has over 15 years of experience in the fields of international policy, security, and raw material supply chains.

Prof. Miranda Schreurs (PhD University of Michigan) is Chair of Climate and Environmental Policy at the School of Politics at the Technical University of Munich. Her research focuses on climate policy, and she has extensive experience in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Dr. Fabricio Rodríguez is a senior researcher at the Arnold Bergstraesser Institute in Freiburg and author of “Energy Transition, Power Struggles, and Conflicts over Ecology: Critical Raw Materials and Geopolitical Tensions between Latin America and China”.

Dr. Frank Jackel is Co-Founder and Managing Director of Metalshub, the leading digital supply chain software for raw materials. He has more than 20 years of critical mineral-related experience in business and academia.

Reinhold Schindler is the founder and CEO of Brain Cloud Networx GmbH, a globally operating consulting firm specializing in critical raw materials. As an industrial engineer and former Director of the Purchasing Council for Magnets & Rare Earths in Siemens AG’s supply chain management and global procurement, he is an author, speaker, and advisor engaged in leading raw materials networks.

The Student Forum in the Tönissteiner Circle e.V. is a dialogue and project forum that was founded in 1999 as a young talent network of the Tönissteiner Circle and creates social added value through its project work. The Tönisstein Circle is a network of executives with international experience. It is non-partisan, interdisciplinary, and cross-generational. Its goals include promoting the international orientation of young leaders.

PLEASE REGISTER VIA:
Sign up here or via E-Mail until 7 July!


Questions about the event? Reach out to us at m.piepel@toenissteiner-studierendenforum.de !