The ResponsibleSteel Assurance Panel
The Assurance Panel provides independent oversight of the work of our approved certification bodies, ensuring the rigour of their certification decisions. Panel members have experience across steel, social and environmental issues, and auditing and certification, and play a vital role in ensuring the rigour of certification decisions made by certification bodies. The Panel reviews audit reports, requiring clarification or revision of conformity classifications where needed, and can either support or disapprove of certification recommendations. If you are interested in being part of the Assurance Panel, please contact us.
With over 40 years of field experience in Health, Safety, Environment, and Quality (HSEQ) management, Enio has expertise in many specialisms including environmental assessments, due diligence, HSEQ auditing, and strategies to develop sustainability across the whole steel supply chain.
Enio joined Bayer SA in 1987 as HSEQ Head before becoming the Corporate HSE Director at Gerdau in 2007 – one of South America’s leading long steel producers with over 30,000 employees. Having left Gerdau in 2016, Enio continues to provide specialist HSE consulting, coaching, and technical support.
Enio holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering as well as master's degrees in Information Technology Management and in Business Administration.
Henk’s career in steel spans more than four decades, starting out as a mechanical engineer in New Zealand at NZ Steel (NZS), which later became part of BlueScope Steel.
During his time at the NZS site, he worked as a design engineer, plant engineer, cold mill manager, and coating manager with many green and brown field upgrade projects in between both in New Zealand and internationally in the late 90s and early 2000s.
He joined worldsteel in 2008 as the General Manager of Technology and Environment, leading the technology committee and continued to build the CO2data collection system. With the support of worldsteel members and JIS, this resulted in the completion of ISO 14404, Pt. 1,2,3,4. The system is still used annually to report on the industry’s performance for scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions of participating sites (200+). In addition, he coordinated the breakthrough technology projects globally started by JP Birat in 2000, covering the ULCOS,AISI, Baowu, Australian, Posco, and course50 programmes with most reaching technology readiness level by 2014.
Henk retired from worldsteel at the end of 2021 and has continued to support the steel industry on an ad-hoc basis.
Nicole is thinkstep-anz’s Head of Strategy and Impact Australia, supporting companies in developing their sustainability strategies. For over 20 years, Nicole worked for BlueScope in a variety of roles, mostly as a Senior Process Engineer at the “hard-hat level”, and later a Senior Technical Advisor – Sustainability and Technical Manager, Sustainability – Marketing.
Nicole has expertise in steel, environmental and safety management, sustainability communications, Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) and Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs). Her work has been awarded the World Steel Association “Steelie” Award for Excellence in LCA, and the BPN Sustainability Award for Innovation of the Year. She holds a degree in chemical engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia.
Meera has over 20 years of experience driving strategies and partnerships to deliver positive business and social impact. Most recently she led the human rights programme for Amazon’s worldwide operations. Prior to this, she was an Associate Director in PwC’s sustainability consulting group, and then spent 10 years leading the social responsibility strategy for ArcelorMittal, with a focus on supply chains and human rights.
Meera has been a member of the steering committee for the Responsible Minerals Initiative, working with civil society groups and businesses sourcing minerals from high risk countries. At PwC, she supported the gold and diamond supply chain to develop an ethical jewellery initiative, the Responsible Jewellery Council.
Jon Woodhead has over 25 years of experience in sustainability and corporate responsibility management, consulting and assurance. Jon’s recent clients include a range of global steel producers, for which he advised and provided assurance over data and claims relating to GHG emissions and sustainability reporting. Jon has a master's degree in Environmental Impact Assessment.
Jon co-founded CSR Network in 1999, working with multinational clients and organisations on sustainability challenges, and in 2009 formed the Two Tomorrows Group. In 2012, Two Tomorrows was acquired by DNV, where Jon worked for 5 years before leaving to co-found his current consultancy, Challenge Sustainability. Jon has been involved in the development of several standards including the ResponsibleSteel International Production Standard and the AA1000 series.
Marnie is an independent consultant with 20 years of experience in developing, implementing and communicating sustainability certification and verification programmes. Marnie started her journey in the field of sustainability with oekom Research AG, a rating agency specialised in sustainable and ethical investments. She then moved to the Marine Stewardship Council (MSC), holding various positions including Deputy Director Europe.
Since then, Marnie has worked as a consultant on projects ranging from protected areas to infrastructure, mining and nature-based solutions. Marnie has worked with ResponsibleSteel since early 2018. She holds a master's degree in Sustainable Urban and Regional Development from the University of Trier in Germany.
