Panelists
Our expert panelists and moderators
Daan van den Elzen
July 30, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Daan is Advisor on Waste Collection and Recycling for the City of Rotterdam. He developed the city’s Waste Management Directive and works on the program Rotterdam Circular where it involves waste management.Read More
Gemma Scott
July 20, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Gemma manages the Resource London activity to improve recycling performance in London’s purpose built flats.Read More
Sarah Ottaway
July 20, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Sarah Ottaway became SUEZ recycling and recovery UK’s Sustainability and Social Value Lead in 2019, after 12 years delivering various programmes related to service enhancement, innovation and behaviour change in SUEZ’s public sector operations.Read More
Daniel O’Connor
June 18, 2020 | be Waste Wise
David spends his time and expertise accelerating the transition to a sustainable economy. Read More
Inna Chilik
June 18, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Inna is coordinating Circular Economy Club (CEC) Mentors program, connecting CEC Members who have vast experience in implementing circularity with young students, professionals, and start-ups who are trying to embed the circular economy in their projectsRead More
Jonathan Cocker
June 18, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Jonathan provides advice and representation to multinational companies on a variety of environmental and product compliance matters, including extended producer responsibilities, dangerous goods transportation, GHS, regulated wastes, consumer product and food safety, and contaminated lands matters.Read More
Sarah Edwards
June 18, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Sarah Edwards is CEO of Eunomia Research & Consulting in North America.Read More
Sumangali Krishnan
June 18, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Sumangali Krishnan is the Chief Business Officer at GA Circular (GA) and has developed and led various research, policy and on-ground projects aimed at developing a Circular Economy framework for Asia.Read More
Sally-Anne Käsner
June 18, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Sally-Anne is a Director of Circular-Vision, a Circular Economy strategy and design consultancy. Read More
David Palmer-Jones
June 12, 2020 | be Waste Wise
David is responsible for SUEZ’s recycling and recovery business activities across Northern Europe, including the UK, Sweden, Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, Serbia and the Czech Republic.Read More
Kaushik Chandrasekhar
May 20, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Kaushik Chandrasekhar’s background spans the fields of municipal solid waste management, environment law and climate changeRead More
Deepali Sinha Khetriwal
May 20, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Deepali has over 16 years of international work experience having lived, studied, and worked in Asia, Europe, and the United States.Read More
Pankaj Arora
May 20, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Pankaj is an Associate Director with a leading consulting firm in the human and social services practice.Read More
Shailendra Singh
May 20, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Shailendra describes himself as sustainable development strategist/enthusiast, with keen appreciation of the impact of climate change on business models & ways to mitigate the risk. Read More
Swati Singh Sambyal
May 8, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Swati Singh Sambyal is a renowned researcher on Solid Waste Management. Swati has worked in India as well as across Global South on development issues concerning waste management.Read More
Robin Wiener
April 30, 2020 | be Waste Wise
As president of ISRI, Robin manages the day to day operations of the 1,300 member companies operating in nearly 4,000 locations in the U.S. and more than 40 countries worldwide that process, broker, and consume scrap commodities including metals, paper, plastic, glass, textiles, rubber, and electronics; provides strategic direction for the association, and oversees nearly 50 staff members.Read More
Carlos Martin-Rios
April 24, 2020 | be Waste Wise
With 20 years of research experience in innovation management, sustainability and organization theory, Dr. Carlos Martin-Rios (PhD Rutgers University) is Associate Professor of Management at the École hôtelière de Lausanne (EHL), University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Western SwitzerlandRead More
Anna de Visser-Amundson
April 24, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Anna is a Project Leader and Research Fellow in Marketing at Hotelschool The Hague (HTH).Read More
Karen Aguilera
April 6, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Karen is a Chartered Waste Manager and a specialist in healthcare waste managementRead More
Brian Matuszewski
April 6, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Brian Matuszewski joined TerraCycle in 2017 to project lead the development of Loop.Read More
Hilda Addah
March 16, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Hilda Addah is project coordinator and also co-founder of Asase foundation who is running Cashit Factory where the LDPE is recycledRead More
Victor Amusa
March 16, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Victor AMUSA is a social entrepreneur with over 5 years’ experience in incentive-motivated waste recycling.Read More
Mazin Mukhtar
March 16, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Mazin Mukhtar co-founded Akshar Foundation with Parmita Sarma in 2013.Read More
Veena Sahajwalla
March 16, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Veena Sahajwalla has pioneered and championed localized waste processing and recycling in high-tech microfactories as an essential first step to the circular economy. Read More
Leigh Broadhurst
March 2, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Leigh is an experienced Chartered Waste Manager and IEMA Practitioner with extensive waste and resources industry experience spanning across 11 years. Read More
Mickey Green
March 2, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Mickey Green has been managing director of Somerset Waste Partnership (SWP) since September 2017. SWP was the first county wide partnership of waste collection and disposal authorities, and has had a long history of innovation; the first to roll out … Read More
Paul Frith
March 2, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Paul set up Frith Resource Management in 2008 following a career in technical services and consultancy for waste and carbon management since 1997.Read More
Karen Luyckx
February 4, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Karen is Head of Research at Feedback, a UK-based campaign group working to regenerate nature by transforming our food system.Read More
Olympia Yarger
February 4, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Olympia is a farmer, innovator and a leader in insect farming in Australia.Read More
Adrian Haworth
February 3, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Adrian Haworth was the Sales and Marketing Director of Recycling Technologies from 2013 to 2019 and continues as a consultant to the company.Read More
Paula Luu
February 3, 2020 | be Waste Wise
Paula is a Project Director at Closed Loop Partners, an investment and advisory services firm focused on building the circular economy.Read More
Maria Cecilia Loschiavo dos Santos
December 16, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Born in São Paulo, Loschiavo is a philosopher and full Professor of Design in the College of Architecture and Urbanism at the University of São Paulo. Read More
Richard Swannell
December 16, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Richard is committed to working on ways of reducing man’s impact on the environment. A biochemist by training, he has a strong expertise in delivering more resource efficient and sustainable practices within businesses, and on reducing food waste and increasing recycling. Read More
Helén Williams
December 16, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Helén Williams is an associate professor of Environment and Energy system and part of the multi-disciplinary Service Research Center at Karlstad University.Read More
Duncan Baker-Brown
November 21, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Duncan is an architect, academic and environmental activist.Read More
Chris Cochran
October 23, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Chris provides strategic oversight to the entire ReFED organization and all program areasRead More
Toine Timmermans
October 22, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Toine Timmermans is Program Manager Circular Economy in Food at Wageningen University & Research, and Coordinator of the EU projects FUSIONS and REFRESH. Read More
Simon Rutledge
October 22, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Simon has over 25 years of experience within the UK waste management and the wider safety and environmental and sustainability management field, working within the regulatory and policy making arena.Read More
Eric Lombardi
August 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Eric is working to connect the people and best practices from around the world to facilitate the building of Zero Waste Communities through the creation and expansion of the “Social Enterprise” model. Read More
Gerry Higgins
August 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Gerry Higgins is Managing Director of Social Enterprise World Forum and Director of International Enterprise at Community Enterprise in Scotland (CEIS). Read More
Marco Ricci – Jürgensen
July 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
rco Ricci – Jürgensen is highly considered as an expert who conceives waste and recycling issues going beyond technical detailsRead More
John Fischer
July 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
John Fischer is Branch Chief for Commercial Waste Reduction and Waste Planning at the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection (MassDEP).Read More
Kat Heinrich
July 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Kat Heinrich is a food waste specialist in Australia and winner of the 2017 GISA Women in Waste Leadership Award.Read More
Louise Edge
July 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Louise Edge is an Environmental Campaign Coordinator at GreenpeaceRead More
Libby Peake
July 24, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Libby Peake is senior policy adviser on resource stewardship at Green Alliance, a UK based independent charity and think tank focused on achieving ambitious leadership for the environment.Read More
John Gertsakis
July 8, 2019 | be Waste Wise
John Gertsakis is a sustainability practitioner with experience as an industry adviser, consultant, research academic and advocate. He is the co-founder of the newly formed Ewaste Watch Institute, and he co-authored Australia’s first report on e-waste recycling in 1995 titled: Short Circuiting Waste from Electronic Products. Read More
Madeline Keating
May 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Madeline Keating is an Urban Fellow with NRDC’s Healthy People and Thriving Communities Program and is the City Lead in Denver for NRDC’s Food Matters project.Read More
Elaine Blatt
May 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Elaine Blatt is a Senior Policy and Program Analyst at Oregon Department of Environmental Quality. Read More
Peter Canepa
May 2, 2019 | be Waste Wise
Peter Canepa joined the Oregon Department of Environmental Quality in January 2017, providing Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) expertise to Oregon’s Materials Management program.Read More
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