Susanne Feiel

Susanne Feiel has been in charge of international relations since 2015 and is currently the Director for International Relations and European University at Montanuniversität Leoben, where she played a leading role in founding EURECAPRO, the European University on Responsible Consumption and Production. Within EURECA-PRO, she serves as the Chair of the Executive Board. She is also a founding member of the Sustainable Development Panel and the Diversity Board at her university.

In parallel with her current role, she was the Interim Head of Marketing and Communications at the university for over a year, from 2022 to 2023. Before assuming her current position, she led the University’s Resources Innovation Centre (RIC) for five years.

During her tenure, she promoted the university’s extensive participation in EIT RawMaterials, a Knowledge and Innovation Community of the European Institute of Technology, focusing on sustainable resources development and mining, raw materials life cycles and supply chains, climate change mitigation, and integrating the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into university practices. It was during this period that the MiReBooks idea was born, and the first project was initiated. With many years of experience in education, innovation, and internationalisation projects at the EU level, as well as in leadership, she brings a wealth of knowledge to her current role.

She holds a Master’s degree in English and American Studies with a specialisation in Marketing and Economics from the Karl-Franzens University of Graz and a PhD in Sustainable Development of Material Cycles from the TU Bergakademie Freiberg in Germany. Her doctoral thesis focused on developing an evaluation scheme for material production cycles based on the Planetary Boundaries framework.