Delila Khaled is the Principal of ImpaXus, an expert with the Women of Waste Task Force at the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), and a Foundry Fellow at the Center for Development and Entrepreneurship at MIT. A global development practitioner, Delila brings more than 20 years of experience in solid waste management with a focus on ocean plastic pollution, the informal recycling sector, gender, and women’s economic empowerment. She designed USAID’s first ocean plastic pollution mitigation program and co-authored the only global gender analysis of the waste management sector. As a ‘Safer End of Engineered Life’ Champion for Engineering X at the Royal Academy of Engineering, Delila pioneered the concept of the women-waste-climate nexus, calling for greater investment in women entrepreneurs to tackle the global waste crisis. Most recently, she conducted the first gender analysis of open waste burning, funded by Engineering X.
