Claire Teurlings
Lead Circular Economy
Amsterdam Economic Board
Focus: Recycling and upcycling raw material streams, circular procurement
Claire Teurlings helps coordinate the long-term ambitions for the region and focuses on driving innovations in various industries that contribute to structural change towards the new economy. Claire is currently working on the Green Deal Circular Textiles, which she co-initiated.
Claire is an industrial designer (Delft University of Technology) and previously worked as Director Global Brand management at Philips and as Founder at a startup for measuring circular performance.
“If we want to become fully circular, we will have to kick our addiction to newness and take a different approach to buying (new) stuff.”