Klaus Kunz is founder and managing director of Ephrin GmbH, supporting companies and other organizations in sustainable business transformation with a specific focus on agriculture and ESG.

He holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry and an MBA and has gained 22 years of experience at Bayer AG, directing business strategic topics at a global level, taking leadership and executive roles in research, R&D project management, regulatory and public/governmental affairs, sustainability, business stewardship and ESG before establishing his own company. Integration of sustainability into business has been at the core of Klaus’ work for many years.

Klaus is senior advisor for Climate & Company, member of the advisory board of the Parliamentary Liason Group on ESG (UK), the ESG practitioners of the WEF, faculty member of Competent Boards and other international initiatives. He is passionate about driving innovation and change, cross- cultural collaboration, politics, history and science, also holding a lectureship for chemistry at the University of Aachen. He is married with three children.