Timo Unger

Senior Manager Sustainability and Environmental Affairs, Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Centre GmbH

As an engineer for Recycling Technology by training, Timo has worked for over 25 years in the automotive industry and since 2005 for the European R&D Center of Hyundai & Kia Motor Company as Senior Manager, Sustainability & Environmental Affairs.

He is representing Hyundai in numerous industry working groups. He, for example, Chairs the Automotive Industry Task Force on REACH and the Working Group on Materials & Substances of ACEA, the EU vehicle manufacturers’ association.

Timo is member of the IMDS Steering Committee and SAICM focal point for the automotive industry as well as member of the UN Environment Programme Steering Group on CiP (Chemicals in Products). Today he intensively works on the interface between chemicals, products and waste incl. for example the Digital Product Passport.