Joachim Quoden studied law at the "Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität” in Bonn between 1987 and 1992 and served his legal internship in Bonn and Cologne from 1993 until 1995.
In between these placements, he spent 4 months within the German Federal Ministry of Environment where he was working on packaging issues including the German Packaging Ordinance.
From February 1993 until June 2006 Mr Quoden worked for Der Grüne Punkt - Duales System Deutschland GmbH (DSD) in various capacities. From January 2001, he served as Head of International Affairs of DSD and was vested with general commercial power of representation in 2003.
In January 2001 he also became Secretary General of PRO EUROPE, the umbrella organisation of 35 packaging recovery organisations using the Green Dot trademark. Between April 2005 and February 2013, he was appointed as managing director of this organisation.
Since April 2013 he is appointed as managing director of EXPRA – Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance – Inspiring Packaging Recycling, a new alliance of packaging recovery organisations owned by obliged industry currently from more than 18 countries from Europe, Canada and Israel.
Besides this, he is working since June 1995 as independent German Lawyer specialized on international extended producer responsibility legislation.
Since October 2013 he is appointed as chair of the legal working group of ISWA and he is member of the Advisory Panel of the Global Product Stewardship Council. He was also an expert of the ISO global standardisation project SIS/TK 165/AG 10 Packaging and Environment that has developed between 2009 and 2012 global standards on packaging optimisation, recycling, reuse and energy recovery.
He is a member of
• the association of lawyers in Bonn, http://bonner.anwaltverein.de/start/start.html
• the Global Product Stewardship Council, http://www.globalpsc.net
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PRO BASKETS, which is an association to support the youth work of the professional basket ball team of TELEKOM BASKETS BONN;
http://www.probaskets.de/.