Siem Haffmans has over 25 years of experience as a sustainable designer and strategic consultant on sustainable innovation and circular economy. He is managing partner at Partners for Innovation and founder of Ragbag, a brand for fair trade and recycled bags from India. He graduated as MSc Industrial Design Engineering at Delft University of Technology.
Since then he worked as a researcher at TNO and started already in 1990 a design studio, specialized in eco-design. In 2004 he was one of the founding partners of Partners for Innovation, working on sustainable innovation and circular economy for leading companies in Europe, such as: DAF trucks, Heineken, Philips, Tarkett/Desso, SUEZ and the packaging industry.
He is trainer for the CIRCO program and frequently asked as a (guest) lecturer at the Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Netherlands Packaging Centre and chairman of the sustainablility jury of the Packaging Innovation Award.