Vera Winthagen

Vera is an industrial designer working on Design for Policy. She is currently working in the EU Policy Lab on the New European Bauhaus initiative at the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission. Prior to joining the EU Policy lab team, she has worked at the City of Eindhoven (NL) as Strategic Design Consultant, responsible for anchoring the way designers work into strategic policymaking. She has also worked at Design & Innovation Agency VanBerlo and the Business Process Design unit of the Technical University Eindhoven as project leader of the ‘Designing Out Crime’ research theme. Her view on design and the possibilities of design are greatly influenced by the experiences in the company she once started in Nairobi (Kenya) and the sustainable innovation programme CP4BP in Hanoi (Vietnam), where she coached SME’s and local designers to become more innovative and sustainable.