GlobalAutoIndustry.com’s latest Audio Interview “Deep Sea Mining: Closing the Gaps in Global Critical Minerals Supply” Interview with Ron Hesse features Dr. Wolfgang Bernhart. Dr. Bernhart has been a Partner at Roland Berger’s Stuttgart office since 2007 and is an expert for automotive topics. He has carried out numerous strategy projects and transformation programs around the world. He helps clients across the whole automotive mobility ecosystem to boost growth and leverage technology, and business model innovations around digitization and eMobility.
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Dr. Wolfgang Bernhart, Senior Partner
Roland Berger
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“How subsea mining can close the growing demand-supply gap for some critical minerals”
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“Deep-sea minerals are potential sources of metals that are fundamental to industrial growth and green energy initiatives.”
Wolfgang Bernhart, Senior Partner – Roland Berger
In the 17-minute Audio Interview, Dr. Bernhart discusses these questions:
• Why is deep-sea mining a topic of interest?
• Can you explain what deep-sea mining is, and where it’s happening, or better: will it happen?
• What have been the roadblocks so far, why is it not happening already?
• If you compare deep-sea mining with land-mining, what is the environmental impact?
• How fast will it happen, and how much minerals can be harvested, and what are the key challenges and hurdles?
• What is the long-term outlook?
About Dr. Wolfgang Bernhart:
Senior Partner, Roland Berger
Dr. Wolfgang Bernhart has been a Partner at Roland Berger’s Stuttgart office since 2007 and is an expert for automotive topics. He has carried out numerous strategy projects and transformation programs around the world. He helps clients across the whole automotive mobility ecosystem to boost growth and leverage technology and business model innovations around digitization and eMobility.
He began his career as a Project Manager for Diebold Deutschland, then joined a major international consulting company in 1996, where he became Associate Director in 1999 and Co-Head of the Automotive Practice in 2001. In 2002, he joined COVISINT Europe as Key Account Director for a big German automotive OEM before returning to consulting in 2003.
Wolfgang studied Production Engineering at the University of Karlsruhe. He completed his PhD in 1993 at the Institute for Machine Tools and Operations Technology, also in Karlsruhe, where he was an Assistant Professor.