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Burçin Temel McKenna

Burçin Temel McKenna

Global Head of Carbon Capture

+45 51 61 40 19

Copenhagen

Key Competencies

Burçin Temel McKenna is the Global Head of the Carbon Capture Competency Centre at Ramboll. With 20 years of industrial experience, her past leadership roles were in sectors such as chemicals, mining, and cement, characterised as hard-to-abate and in need of carbon capture.

At Ramboll, Burçin is responsible for commercial and technical leadership as well as management of the CC Competence Centre, overseeing business offerings such as due diligence, concept, feasibility, Pre-FEED, FEED, and Owners Engineer studies of the CCUS value chain as well as EPCM and system integration projects. Burcin holds executive MBA from Copenhagen Business School and a PhD from UC Santa Barbara followed by a post-doc at Berkeley. She also serves as a board member at EIT Raw Materials where she is involved in EU-level transaction evaluation and public-private partnership structures in the sustainable mining space.

Past Experience

FLSmidth
Global Director of Green Cement Solutions Development
Global Director of Digital, Research and Partnerships in Mining
Portfolio Manager for Innovation Projects in Global R&D Mining

Haldor Topsoe A/S
Numerous Project manager positions within Chemicals Business Unit R&D

Education

University of California, Berkeley
Post-doc, Heterogeneous catalysis

Copenhagen Business School
Executive MBA, International Finance

UC Santa Barbara
Ph.D., Chemical Physics, Heterogeneous Catalysis

Bilkent University
BS, Chemistry

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