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Stefania Di Vito, Legambiente
Stefania Di Vito has a second level degree in Environmental Monitoring and Recovery. Since 2013 has been active in the scientific department of the italian environmental NGO Legambiente.The main working activity is based on marine litter issue: floating, beached and micro litter monitoring during Goletta Verde and Goletta dei Laghi (for inland waters) campaigns. Supervision and coordination of citizen science activities, data processing and final report writings, scientific articles, posters, conferences and so on. Support every action of people's awareness on the marine litter problem for Legambiente.
Mike Duddy, Mersey Rivers Trust
Mike was the sole member of the Mersey Basin Rivers Trust who joined up with the Healthy Rivers Trust in 2017. He is a keen angler and is helping to develop the Mersey Rivers Trust Fisheries Action Plan. As a Senior Project Manager, he is responsble for projects and events on North Manchester's rivers.
David Katz, The Plastics Bank
David has been named one of the world’s most compassionate entrepreneurs by Salt magazine. He is the recipient of the United Nations Lighthouse award for Planetary Health, recipient of the Paris Climate Conference Sustainia community award, recipient of the Earnst and Young Lifetime Achievement award, is the Past President of the Vancouver Chapter of the Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO), and named the Entrepreneur Organizations, Global Citizen.
David is the founder and CEO of The Plastic Bank, an internationally recognized solution to ocean plastic. The Plastic Bank is a global network of micro recycling markets that empower the poor to transcend poverty by cleaning the environment.
The Plastic Bank is an eco-system that provides an opportunity for the world to collect and trade plastic waste as a currency. Global partners include IBM, Shell Energy, SC Johnson, Aldi, Henkel and more.
His humanitarian work has earned him international recognition. David has been featured in hundreds of international news and investigative articles, including Forbes, Time Magazine, Fast Company, Business Week, and National Geographic. David can be found at TED.com, is featured in an award-winning documentary and starred in an international reality television show.
David is a steward of the earth and a champion for the poor.
Zoe Lenkiewicz, Waste Aid
Growing WasteAid from the ground up, Zoë combines technical and creative skills with strategic waste management expertise.
A professional waste manager since 2002, Zoë has led municipal waste and recycling programmes, research studies, campaigns and consultations, workshops and training courses for government, practitioners, and community groups in the UK and in lower-income countries. Prior to her work developing WasteAid, Zoë was a successful independent consultant, supporting smart-material start-ups, government agencies and major waste management companies.
At WasteAid, Zoë is a driving force in the movement to attract international attention to the power of waste management for global development. Her cross-sector experience enables diverse stakeholders to make progress towards common goals. Zoë has project managed the UK Aid funded plastics recycling programme in The Gambia, a community waste management initiative in Indonesia, and multi-stakeholder waste management training in Ghana and Tanzania. Zoë was the chief author of the award-winning WasteAid toolkit Making Waste Work, and works with communities worldwide to deliver genuinely sustainable waste management.
Zoë has a BSc in Environmental Biology (focused on ecotoxicology) and an MSc in Environment and Development (focused on waste management and environmental challenges in lower-income countries). She is a CSC Commonwealth Leader alumni, has been recognised as a Woman of Influence by the Planner and among the 100 Women Creating a Better Africa, and is an approved trainer on the International Solid Waste Association’s Clean Oceans through Clean Communities framework programme
Laura Peano, Quantis
Sustainability consultant with over 12 years of experience in the field, Laura has performed several Life Cycle Assessments (LCA) in different sectors, in particular related to plastics and packaging. During her career, she has worked with many companies to build their environmental strategy and reach their sustainability targets. She is currently leading the plastics and packaging solutions at Quantis and managed the Plastic Leak Project.
Justin Wood, Alliance to End Plasics Waste
Justin Wood is Vice President for Strategic Partnerships at the Alliance to End Plastic Waste. He joined the Alliance in April 2020 and is responsible for relationships with external stakeholders, including businesses across the plastic value chain, governments, NGOs, civil society, inter-governmental organisations and development banks, and academia. Justin also oversees the regional strategies of the Alliance, ensuring that the work of the Alliance is tightly linked to the local priorities of different geographies.
Before joining the Alliance, Justin was Head of Asia Pacific and Member of the Executive Committee at the World Economic Forum from 2015 to 2020 where he managed the Forum’s portfolio of activities and relationships in Asia, working on trade and economic integration, human capital development, environmental sustainability and infrastructure financing.
Before 2015, he worked for The Economist Group for 18 years, the last 14 of them in South-east Asia. For eight of those years Justin ran an economic advisory and research service covering the Asia region, and before that he worked as a journalist, covering economics and business across Asia.
Justin is a graduate of the London School of Economics (1992) and has completed post-graduate studies in corporate finance at London Business School (2001) and in public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School (2019). Justin is the author of several books and is a frequent commentator on TV and in the press. He is married with three children.
Adela Putinelu, British Plastics Federation
Katrin Schuhen, Wasser 3.0
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