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Steen Riisgaard was born on 22 March, 1951 in Esbjerg, Denmark. Discover Steen Riisgaard's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is He in this year and how He spends money? Also learn how He earned most of networth at the age of 73 years old?
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22 March, 1951 |
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22 March |
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Esbjerg, Denmark |
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Denmark |
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Steen Riisgaard Height, Weight & Measurements
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Steen Riisgaard Net Worth
His net worth has been growing significantly in 2022-2023. So, how much is Steen Riisgaard worth at the age of 73 years old? Steen Riisgaard’s income source is mostly from being a successful . He is from Denmark. We have estimated
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Riisgaard has stated that an important motivation for working in Novozymes is the company’s positive impact on the environment:
“I’m very happy that my job isn’t only about making money (…) the more products we sell, the more enzymes we develop, the cleaner the world becomes”.
Riisgaard has been vocal in his support for advanced biofuels (for which Novozymes produces the essential enzymes) and called for politicians to support the industry with credit lines and loan guarantees. Steen Riisgaard has repeatedly stated that Novozymes would be ready in 2010 with the enzymes necessary to convert agricultural waste to fuel at a price level competitive with gasoline, and on February 16, 2010, he announced that the enzymes were ready. According to Steen Riisgaard, biofuels are the first step on the way to a ‘bio-based society’ in which “sugar will be the new oil” and “the basis for an entire new chemicals industry”. In the bio-based society, traditional oil-based technology, products and infrastructure will be replaced by biotechnology and renewable raw materials input:
In January 2008, Novozymes announced a partnership with US agriculture giant Cargill to produce acrylic acid from renewable raw materials and in December 2009 the company announced a partnership with Brazilian petrochemical company Braskem to make polypropylene from sugarcane.
When Novozymes was spun off from Novo Nordisk in a demerger in 2000, Riisgaard was made President and CEO of the new company. He has held this position since then.
Steen Riisgaard was educated at the University of Copenhagen and holds an MSc in Microbiology from 1979. Protecting nature and the environment was a priority early on and Steen Riisgaard founded a local branch of the environmental organization Noah (Friends of the Earth, Denmark) in Ballerup, Denmark.
Riisgaard started his career as a research fellow at the Serum Institute of Denmark and a research microbiologist at Foss Electric, Denmark. In 1979, he joined Novo Nordisk in Enzymes Research & Development. In 1982 he moved to Tokyo to start up an Enzymes Research & Development unit in the Novo Nordisk subsidiary Novo Industri Japan Ltd. After his return to Denmark in 1985, he held a range of jobs in the company before he was promoted to Corporate Executive Vice President with special responsibility for Enzyme Business in 1989.
Steen Riisgaard (born 22 March 1951) is the former president and CEO of the Denmark-based biotech company Novozymes, the world’s largest producer of industrial enzymes. He held this position since Novozymes was founded in a demerger from Novo Nordisk in 2000 and left the company in 2013 when Peder Holk Nielsen stepped up as CEO.
