Panelists
Our expert panelists and moderators
Wayne Williams
May 23, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Wayne O. Williams is an Environmental Engineer and a Wastewater Subject Matter Expert. Read More
Timothy Augustus
May 23, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Timothy Augustus has been involved in the operation and maintenance of wastewater treatment plants, sanitary construction of water and wastewater systems, and the supervision of wastewater treatment plant operators for over 16 years. The vast knowledge and experience of various … Read More
Brian Lipinski
April 5, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Brian Lipinski is a research associate with the Food Program at the World Resources Institute (WRI). During his time at WRI, he has worked extensively on the topic of food loss and waste, having served as the lead author on the paper “Reducing Food Loss and Waste.”Read More
Jayson Zwierschke
April 1, 2022 | be Waste Wise
For over 20 years, Jay Zwierschke has been a noteworthy leader in the Canadian cleantech space. Read More
Brittney Drake
April 1, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Brittney Drake’s background is in technical design across the refining, petrochemical and mining industries including the extensive time spent in the field provides unconventional strategies for the changing environment and challenges of decarbonization. Read More
Brent Lyon
April 1, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Brent Lyon, PEng is Scovan Engineering’s Director of Business Development, with a strong focus on biogas projects. Prior to this, he was an executive recruiter for renewable energy and mining companies, a management strategic consultant, the chief feedstock negotiator for a 66MW biomass-fueled power plant, and even the assistant brewmaster for the first craft brewery in Canada. Brent is a Professional Chemical engineer with an additional academic background in industrial microbiology.Read More
Kamal Raj
March 14, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Biotechnologist by education, Kamal Raj is a Solid Waste Management professional. In the past, he has co-founded a social enterprise that works in environmental and civic action through behavioural change.Read More
Marvin Hayes
February 28, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Marvin Hayes has been a youth educator and mentor for over 20 years. Read More
Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli
February 28, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Meredith Danberg-Ficarelli sits on the US Composting Council board of directors and the steering committee of the Institute for Local Self Reliance’s Community Composting Coalition.Read More
Graham Duxbury
February 24, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Graham Duxbury was appointed Groundwork UK’s Chief Executive in 2014, having served in a number of other roles in the organisation building national relationships and partnerships, generating income, developing programmes and leading on policy and communications.Read More
Charlotte Österman
February 24, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Charlotte offers tailored support and technical expertise to Social Value UK’s private sector members to help them on their social value journey.Read More
Susan Evans
February 17, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Susan Evans joined Green Alliance in September 2021 as a senior policy adviser, leading the organisation’s work on resource efficiency and the circular economy. Read More
Jen Gale
February 10, 2022 | be Waste Wise
In September 2012, Jen decided it would be a ‘fun’ challenge to spend a year buying nothing new and dragged the rest of her family along for the ride. Read More
Christy Adeola Braham
February 3, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Christy Braham is Workers’ Health Coordinator at the global network Women in Informal Employment – Globalizing and Organizing (WIEGO).Read More
Marcy Goldstein-Gelb
February 3, 2022 | be Waste Wise
Marcy Goldstein-Gelb has been a leader and strategist in the occupational safety and health, and economic justice movements for over twenty-five years.Read More
Rich Uto
November 25, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Rich Uto is the owner of Satsuma Farms and the first strawberry grower in the world to achieve the Sustainably Grown certification from SCS Global Services.Read More
James duBois
November 25, 2021 | be Waste Wise
James duBois is the Senior Manager of Environmental Sustainability at Driscoll’s. James has worked within the Reiter/Driscoll’s enterprise for 15 years in both the U.S. and Mexico.Read More
Jane Gilbert
November 23, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Jane is the current Chair of ISWA’s Biological Treatment Working Group and has gained her International Waste Manager status.Read More
Chris Whyte
November 1, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Since 1992, Chris has been involved in environmental and sustainable project developments across Africa and channelled his focus into waste from 1999.Read More
Alejandra Rivera
September 20, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Alejandra Rivera is an expert in integrated solid waste management with 10 years of experience. She is the co-founder and has been the president of Asociación Sumando Impactos from August 2017 to February 2021. Read More
Thorben Knust
September 20, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Senior consultant with over ten years of international experience in the management of sustainable development projects. Read More
Robert Thompson
September 1, 2021 | be Waste Wise
ob leads the packaging sustainability strategy for his own brand packaging within the Ethics, Sustainability and Policy team at Co-op Food. Read More
Amy Bloom
August 23, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Amy Bloom is a chemical engineer with consultancy experience across the waste sector, with a broad-ranging technical understanding including industrial, hazardous and municipal streams.Read More
Katie Cockburn
August 23, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Katie Cockburn is the Professional Services Director, CIWM and Director of Qualifications and Standards, WAMITAB, with fifteen years of experience in the vocational and technical education space. Over ten of these were spent developing and improving qualification standards in the … Read More
Benjamin Lephilibert
July 27, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Benjamin Lephilibert is the Founder and Managing Director of LightBlue Environmental ConsultingRead More
Alvin Leer
July 15, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Alvin Dammann Leer is a serial impact entrepreneur and investor.Read More
Megan Quinn
July 15, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Megan joined the Waste Dive team as a reporter in 2020. She previously covered the recycling industry as senior reporter for Scrap News, where she learned about the industry at scrapyards and steel mills.Read More
Yinka N. Bode-George
July 15, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Yinka N. Bode-George is an environmental health advocate passionate about creating health equity, environmental justice, and sustainable development through public policy and community building. Read More
Paul Huxtable
June 23, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Paul is an accomplished Australian industrial designer and business developer with diverse international experience in many industry sectors spanning five decades.Read More
Niki Wallace
June 23, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Niki Wallace is the Director of Net Zero Lab and a Research Associate at the University of South Australia whose research focuses on co-design and circular economies.Read More
Legena Henry
June 9, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Dr Legena Henry, PhD, is an MIT S.M. graduate and a Mechanical Engineer, who is now the Lecturer for Renewable Energy at the University of the West Indies, Cave Hill, specializing in Renewable Energy and Applied Mechanics. Read More
Lavina Alexander
June 9, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Lavina holds a Bachelor’s degree in Chemistry and a Master’s degree in Water Resources Technology and Management. Lavina’s current responsibility includes Coastal Zone Management and related issues. Read More
Tamoy Singh Clarke
June 9, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Ms Tamoy Singh Clarke is an Administrative and Project Management Professional with over 15 years of experience in the environmental non-profit sector.Read More
Jo Beall
May 26, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Jo Beall is Emeritus Professor and Distinguished Policy Fellow at LSE Cities, London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE).Read More
Ronald Arrieta Calvo
May 6, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Ronald holds a Ph.D. in Environmental and Industrial Biotechnology from the Technical University of Berlin in 1991. He has over 40 years of teaching and research experience. Read More
Iván Sánchez
May 6, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Iván Sánchez is an industrial designer, urban cyclist and circular economy lover. Read More
Karla Bolaños Cárdenas
May 6, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Karla is a registered Geographic Engineer with a master’s degree in Environmental Management.Read More
Andre Kuncoroyekti
April 19, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Andre Kuncoroyekti is the Chief Delivery Officer at Project STOP Muncar. Read More
Dr Mansoor Ali
April 19, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Dr Mansoor Ali is a solid waste management expert with more than 35 years of experience in planning projects, designing systems, assessing recycling potential, and creating livelihoods from waste-related activities, with extensive experience in Pakistan. Read More
Zaqiya Cajee
March 30, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Zaqiya Cajee is the 18-year-old founder of Swopitup; The initiative provides a platform for young people to access the preloved market through clothing swops in schools.Read More
Andrew Ferguson
March 30, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Andrew is co-founder of Re-Fashion, a re-commerce platform that helps bring sustainable fashion to the mainstream. Re-Fashion inspires women to recycle clothes they no longer wear. Read More
Elaine Brown
March 30, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Now at the Edinburgh Remakery, she is driving forward the concept of Re-use and Repair through the E-Waste and Education Hub in Leith.Read More
Bethany Fitzpatrick
March 11, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Beth’s career has evolved from producing large-scale events to leading operations with Australia’s leading food rescue organisation, OzHarvest.Read More
Terri La Fon
March 10, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Terri-Anne Carter-La Fon holds the post of Recycling and Recovery Manager at the Trinidad and Tobago Solid Waste Management Company Limited (SWMCOL). Read More
Shelly Ann-Dunkley
March 10, 2021 | be Waste Wise
After working for over 8 years in the US, Ms Dunkley relocated to Jamaica and started Jamaica’s first environmentally themed magazine titled ECCO Magazine – Environmentally Conscious Consumer Operations. Read More
Nerline Ballantyne-Veira
March 10, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Nerline Ballantyne-Veira is guided by the personal philosophy that, “The destruction and degradation of the environment are everyone’s doing; therefore its preservation and conservation should be everyone’s responsibility”.Read More
Sian Cuffy- Young
March 10, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Sian Cuffy-Young has been involved in the environmental field for over fourteen years. Read More
Stephen Clarke
February 26, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Stephen’s role is to oversee the communications strategy and PR teams for both TerraCycle Europe and Loop Europe. Read More
Trewin Restorick
February 26, 2021 | be Waste Wise
Trewin Restorick is Founder and CEO of the charity Hubbub UK www.hubbub.org.uk which transforms the way environmental messages are communicated by bringing people and organisations together as a force for good. Read More
David Greenfield
February 26, 2021 | be Waste Wise
David is managing director and founder of SOENECS, a research and innovation practice in 2014 following 15 years in leadership roles in local and regional government. Read More
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