Lisa Lang
Director for EU Policy & Affairs Orchestrator
EIT Climate KIC
Brussels
isa Lang is the Director for EU Affairs & Policy Orchestrator for EIT Climate KIC and the Chair person for the Cultural & Creative Taskforce for UNFCCC United Nations Global Innovation Hub (UGIH).
Climate-KIC is a knowledge and innovation community established and funded by the EIT - European Institute of Innovation and Technology in 2010.
Our purpose is to tackle climate change through innovation. We are Europe’s largest public-private partnership with this purpose – a growing pan-European community of diverse organisations united by a commitment to direct the power of creativity and human ingenuity at the climate change challenge.
Lisa Lang has gained international recognition on Forbes Europe’s Top 50 Women in Tech, Sustainable Thought Leader by Vogue Business and has been listed as one of the 50 most important women for innovation & startups in the EU.
She founded highly recognized companies like ElektroCouture, ThePowerHouse and FNDMT who are dedicated to push innovation within the creative and innovative industry eco systems. Lisa Lang is a direct adviser for creative industries, digitalisation and entrepreneurship for the European Commission on several high-level advisory boards, including Pact for Skills, Industrial Forum and the US/EU Trade & Technology Council.
Lisa Lang is on the advisory board to the Zurich University of Arts as well as a policy advisor for Fashion Innovation Centre Sweden. She has been given guest lectures at TEDx Athens, KryptoLabs Abu Dhabi and Oxford Saiid Entrepreneurship Forum.
