Karthik Ashok Kumar

Sustainability Officer CEPE
(The European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink and Artists' Colours Industry)

Karthik Ashok Kumar

Sustainability Officer CEPE
(The European Council of the Paint, Printing Ink and Artists' Colours Industry)

Biography

Karthik Kumar is the new sustainability officer at CEPE since 2020. Some of his responsibilities include the development of the PEF (Product Environmental Footprint) project for Decorative paints, EU Ecolabel, and the upcoming Green Deal initiatives such as the Eco design, Safe and sustainable by design, Extended Producer Responsibility, etc. He holds a master’s degree in Sustainable Resource Management from the Technical University of Munich, Germany, and holds a variety of experience working around product sustainability.