F. Javier Ramírez, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha

Dr F. Javier Ramírez is Assistant Professor at the School of Industrial Engineering, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Albacete, Spain. Ramirez’s research focuses on operations research and manufacturing engineering. He has participated in more than 120 R&D projects and has co-authored over 50 research papers in journals, specialized conferences and book chapters. He is co-inventor of 6 patents with industrial exploitation. Dr Ramírez is Associate Editor of Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers Part C: Journal of Mechanical Engineering Science, and Cogent Engineering.

James Barry, Renewable Parts

Following a career spanning 25 years with Aerospace Corporate, Rolls-Royce, James moved to lead Renewable Parts to become a global player in parts supply chain solutions.  An engineer by background, during his time with Rolls-Royce James had roles within Sales & Marketing, Service Development and MRO working with global giants that included Airbus, Boeing and Cathay Pacific. Prior to leaving the business in 2015, James led Rolls-Royce’s Marketing division for Civil Aerospace.     

Rachel Waugh, European Remanufacturing Council

Rachel Waugh has been working on remanufacturing for nearly 8 years as part of her role as Senior Consultant at Oakdene Hollins, a Circular Economy consultancy based in Buckinghamshire, UK.  She joined Oakdene Hollins after completing her PhD in Engineering at the University of Cambridge as part of the WellMet2050 project, which aimed to explore all credible means for reducing the global CO2 emissions of the steel and aluminium industries and was her introduction to remanufacturing.  She has been involved in a broad range of remanufacturing projects, including remanufacturing markets studies for Malaysia, Scotland, Canada and Europe.  In 2014, she co-ordinated the successful Horizon2020 bid to run the European Remanufacturing Network, out of which the European Remanufacturing Council was established in 2017.  She is married to a real life rocket scientist and her free time is currently spent homeschooling her two young children! 

Harald van der Mijle Meijer, TNO

Harald is senior consultant wind energy at the Dutch research organization TNO and has more than 15 years of experience in wind energy research and development projects at an international level. With his passion for the wind and the sea and background in materials science, his focus is on sustainability and circularity of offshore wind turbines. Within TNO he is responsible for the research and market combination cluster circular wind farms with a focus on wind turbine design for circularity and recycling of wind turbine blades.
He has worked for various companies and the Royal Netherlands Navy in the field of material application and maintenance in aerospace and marine applications and corrosion protection of wind turbine support structures.
In his spare time he uses the wind as a sailor and with kitesurfing.