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Nadja Yang

Election Year: 2020

Election Constituency: Germany

Scholar Status: Scholar in Residence

Rhodes Identifier: Germany & Keble 2020

Nadja Yang

Biography

Nadja is a chemical engineering student at the Technical University of Munich, where she founded her campus' Environmental Department. She is currently investigating the connection between Circular Economy and Change Management at the University of São Paulo. Previously, she analysed different Resource Efficiency policies at the Centre for Industrial Ecology of the Tsinghua University.

In 2019, she embarked on the study abroad programme 'Semester at Sea' and travelled on a 'mobile university' to eleven countries of four continents within four months. After she observed the worldwide plastic pollution firsthand, her wish to transform the global supply chain and resource consumption consolidated. Therefore, she strives to contribute to a sustainable industrial transition by using the concept of Circular Economy and the power of renewable energy technologies.