Panelists
Our expert panelists and moderators
Vaughan Levitzke
April 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Vaughan Levitzke has more than 35 years’ experience in government, project management and leadership. Vaughan established Zero Waste SA in 2003 and is responsible for a multitude of programs and projects carried out by Zero Waste SA and its partner organisations, … Read More
Silpa Kaza
March 15, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Silpa Kaza is an Urban Development Specialist in the World Bank’s Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice.Read More
Christian Bremer
October 26, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Christian Bremer is currently working as the Managing Director at SSI SCHÄFER. Read More
Jürgen Jacoby
October 26, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Jürgen Jacoby, is the International Sales & Business Development at Envac Optibag AB.Read More
Bernd Leowald
October 26, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Bernd Leowald is the head of the department Northwest at Stadtreinigung Hamburg (SRH). The SRH is the municipal waste management company in Hamburg with 2600 employees. The department Northwest is a part of Hamburg with 620.000 inhabitants and an area … Read More
Rosa Arias
October 10, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Rosa Arias is the Founder of Science for Change and the creator of the citizen science App OdourCollect, to build up collaborative odour maps.Read More
Costas Velis
October 3, 2018 | be Waste WiseCostas Velis is the Chair of the ISWA Task Force on Marine Litter and Lecturer on Resource Efficiency Systems at University of Leeds.Read More
Stiv Wilson
September 25, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Stiv Wilson is Director of Campaigns at The Story of Stuff project. Read More
Rebecca Prince-Ruiz
September 25, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Rebecca Prince-Ruiz is the founder of the for-purpose, Plastic Free July Foundation, a not-for-profit organisation that brings the public and business together with the vision of a world without plastic waste. Read More
Kate Bailey
August 9, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Kate Bailey is a leading authority on Zero Waste best practices and focuses on the facts, details, and logistics that help Zero Waste initiatives succeed.Read More
Mitch Hedlund
August 9, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Prior to founding the nonprofit standardized label initiative and Recycle Across America®, Mitch Hedlund had over 20 years experience in marketing, communications, and branding, serving Fortune 500 companies, as well as midsized companies. Read More
Stephen Bates
August 6, 2018 | be Waste Wise
is an accomplished, and highly-effective International Government, Public Affairs and Behavioural Change Expert with over 25 years of experience leading Communications, Stakeholder Engagement, Community Relations and Operations within the global Waste and Resource Recovery sector.Read More
Natalie Starr
August 6, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Natalie Starr has nearly twenty five years of experience in solid waste management, recycling and resource recovery, and energy consulting including twenty years with DSM Environmental where she is now a Principal.Read More
Lynn Hoffman & Kate Davenport
August 6, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Lynn Hoffman and Kate Davenport are the Co-Presidents of Eureka Recycling, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit social enterprise based in the Twin Cities of Minnesota, whose mission is to demonstrate that waste is preventable, not inevitable. Read More
Jim Frey
August 6, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Jim Frey offers over 35 years of expertise in recycling and waste management program development for public services and private enterprises. Read More
Emma Burlow
August 6, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Emma Burlow is one of the UK’s leading specialists on circular economy and resource efficiency in businesses and has more than 20 years’ experience in the sectorRead More
Chaz Miller
August 6, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Chaz Miller’s career in waste and recycling spanned four decades with stints at the US EPA Office of Solid Waste, the Glass Packaging Institute and the National Waste and Recycling Association. Although he is now retired from full time work, he consults and continues to write his award-winning column “The Circular File” for Waste360.Read More
Beth Schmitt
August 6, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Beth Schmitt is Senior Director of Corporate Partnerships at The Recycling Partnership.Read More
Amity Lumper
August 6, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Amity Lumper is Co-President and Director of Cascadia Consulting Group’s Recycling and Materials Management practice.Read More
Sarah Currie-Halpern
July 31, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Sarah Currie-Halpern is Co-Founder and Partner in Think Zero LLC. Previously she ran Solid Waste and Zero Waste Programs for the Mayor’s Office of NYC, where she helped develop the Zero Waste section of OneNYC and the Waste section of the recent 80×50 plan.Read More
Clare Miflin
May 11, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Clare Miflin has a deep understanding of environmentally sound building practices, techniques, codes and standards that she applies to all her projects.Read More
David Biderman
March 21, 2018 | be Waste Wise
David Biderman is the Executive Director/CEO, Solid Waste Association of North America
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Antonis Mavropoulos
March 21, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Antonis Mavropoulos is the founder and CEO of D-Waste and President of ISWA. He has been involved in solid waste management projects for 20 years, in 20 countries and he has completed more than 150 projects.Read More
Josephine Antonio
March 7, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Josephine Antonio is a consultant in septage management, water supply and wastewater engineering, sanitation and local governance and development planning. She was a former City Planning and Development Coordinator for Dumaguete City, Philippines where she played an instrumental role in implementing reknowned septage and fecal sludge management project for the city. Read More
Goutham Katta
March 7, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Goutham Katta is the Senior Lead of City Operations for Pune Municipal Corporation. He develops and drives smart city projects and strategy in the field of sanitation, waste, transportation and other sectors.Read More
Habibur Rahman
March 7, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Habibur Rahman is the Deputy Programme Engineer at Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP) and leads sanitation work in Bangladesh.Read More
Jeremy Horner
March 7, 2018 | be Waste Wise
Jeremy Horner is the Director of Programs at Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor (WSUP).Read More
Simon Houghton
November 22, 2017 | be Waste WiseSimon Houghton is the Strategy and Business Development Director at Agriprotein.Read More
Kirstie Pecci
September 1, 2017 | be Waste Wise
Kirstie Pecci is an environmental, real estate and municipal attorney. In January she launched the Zero Waste Project as part of the Healthy Communities, Environmental Justice Program of the Conservation Law Foundation.Read More
Madisen Gittlin
August 31, 2017 | be Waste Wise
Madisen Gittlin is a Program Assistant with Global Green, a national environmental nonprofit, and the American affiliate of Green Cross International.Read More
Olivia Lapierre
August 15, 2017 | be Waste Wise
Olivia Lapierre is a Be Zero ambassador and racial justice activist. She began her transition to a zero waste lifestyle in January 2016. Through Be Zero she works to bring awareness to environmental racism and to provide platforms for POCs in environmental communities, which are traditionally predominantly white spaces.Read More
Mani Vajipey
August 8, 2017 | be Waste Wise
Mani Vajipey is a recycler and is the Co-Founder and CEO of Banyan Nation, a technology driven recycling company that is changing the way India looks at plastics, recycling and waste management.Read More
Christopher Kane
August 7, 2017 | be Waste WiseChristopher Kane is a Campus Coordinator and the Director of Resource Development at the Post-Landfill Action Network (PLAN).Read More
Robert Crocker
August 7, 2017 | be Waste Wise
Robert Crocker is the Deputy Director of China Australia Centre for Sustainable Urban Development and the Author of Somebody Else’s Problem: Consumerism, Sustainability and Design.Read More
Olivia and Carter Ries
August 6, 2017 | be Waste WiseOlivia and her brother Carter started their own nonprofit called One More Generation (OMG) in 2009 in an effort to help save endangered species for at least One More Generation… and beyond.Read More
Moana Simas
May 24, 2017 | be Waste Wise
Moana Simas is a PhD candidate at the Industrial Ecology Programme, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology.Read More
Julie Kearns
May 24, 2017 | be Waste Wise
Julie Kearns is the Founder and Finder at the Minneapolis-based, 3000 ft2, best-in- class, daily vintage/reuse shopping experience known as Junket: Tossed & FoundRead More
Carl Zimring
October 26, 2016 | be Waste Wise
Carl A. Zimring is Associate Professor of Sustainability Studies at the Pratt Institute. He is author of the books Cash for Your Trash: Scrap Recycling in America (Rutgers UP, 2005), Clean and White: A History of Environmental Racism in the United States (NYU Press, 2015), and Aluminum Upcycled: Sustainable Design in Historical Perspective (Johns Hopkins UP, 2017).Read More
Pete Shaw
September 29, 2016 | be Waste Wise
Dr. Pete Shaw is a Senior Lecturer in Environmental Sciences within Engineering and the Environment at the University of Southampton. Dr. Shaw’s research interests in waste management orient around the necessity to engage individuals in waste reduction, reuse and recycling as a means to achieve desired reductions in residual waste.Read More
Demetra Tsiamis
September 28, 2016 | be Waste Wise
Demetra Tsiamis is the Associate Director of the Earth Engineering Center at the City College of New York (EEC|CCNY).Read More
Marco Castaldi
September 28, 2016 | be Waste Wise
Prof. Marco Castaldi received his B.S. ChE (Magna cum Laude) from Manhattan College. His Ph.D. is in Chemical Engineering from UCLA and he has minors in Advanced Theoretical Physics and Astrophysics. Professor Castaldi has approximately 60 peer-reviewed research articles, 40 peer-reviewed conference papers, 3 book chapters and 11 patents in the fields of catalysis, combustion and gasification. Read More
Bridget Croke
September 14, 2016 | be Waste Wise
Bridget Croke leads external affairs including investor partnerships, industry partnerships, communications and special projects at the Closed Loop Fund.Read More
Cindy Isenhour
August 30, 2016 | be Waste Wise
Cindy Isenhour is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Maine. Her work focuses on production-consumption systems and the cultural construction of policies designed to reduce materials throughput, energy use, emissions and waste.Read More
David Wilson
August 30, 2016 | be Waste Wise
Professor David Wilson is a senior and respected figure in waste and resources management in the UK and internationally. He is now working full-time as an independent consultant, specialising in high-level policy and strategy work. He is also Visiting Professor in Waste Management at Imperial College, London.Read More
Andy Whiteman
August 25, 2016 | be Waste Wise 1
Andy Whiteman is the Director of RWA Group (www.rwagroup.net) and founder of ‘wasteaware’ (www.wasteaware.org).Read More
Marcus Lee
August 23, 2016 | be Waste Wise
Marcus Lee is an Urban Economist with the Social, Urban, Rural and Resilience Global Practice of the World Bank, where his work program currently spans solid waste, decentralized governance, and municipal finance, with a regional focus on East Asia.Read More
David Newman
August 3, 2016 | be Waste Wise
David Newman is the President of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) and the Managing Director of the Bio-based and Biodegradable Industries Association (BBIA). He has been the President of ISWA since September 2012 and is specifically focusing his attention on bringing financial resources to help developing nations invest in waste infrastructure.Read More
Alisa Shargorodsky
July 11, 2016 | be Waste Wise
Alisa Shargorodsky is a Zero Waste Consultant and the Founder and CEO of Reverent Resident.Read More
Tim Elliott
July 5, 2016 | be Waste Wise
Tim Elliott specializes in ex ante and ex post policy analysis, including the use of Life Cycle Analysis in environmental modelling and economic assessment in Cost Benefit Analysis. His expertise in understanding the impacts of policy has led to Tim’s involvement … Read More
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