Burçin Temel McKenna is the Global Head of Carbon Capture Competency Center at Ramboll. She has about 20 years of industrial experience with her past R&D leadership roles in sectors such as chemicals, mining and cement from Topsoe and FLSmidth where these sectors are characterized as hard-to-abate and in need of carbon capture. At Ramboll, she is responsible for commercial and technical leadership and management of the Competence Center. Offerings as due diligence, concept, feasibility, FEED, and Owners Engineer studies of the CCUS value chain as well as EPCM and system integration projects.

Before joining Ramboll, Burcin was heading the Green Cement Solutions R&D at FLSmidth, where her teams scaled up and commercialized flagship sustainability technologies. Prior to her cement role, she was heading the Research and Partnerships function at FLSmidth Mining, forming strategic alliances and creating partnerships for new technology development and sales. Burçin has extensive chemicals technology experience from Topsoe, where she worked 9 years after her Ph.D. at UC Santa Barbara and postdoctoral studies at UC Berkeley. She also serves as a board member at EIT Raw Materials.