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Each electronic device can be recaptured for materials to build future products.
This session explores the challenges and opportunities in creating efficient, responsible and collaborative reverse supply chains. It will connect knowledge and practical experiences to collaborative action and improvements, in setting up collection systems, and enabling transboundary movements of end-of-life electronics for environmentally and socially sound management.
Keynote: The US perspective on opportunities for robust global reverse supply chains to ensure critical material recovery
Raffi Balian
Division Chief
US Department of State
Raffi Balian is a US diplomat with more than two decades of experience in environmental, economic, energy and cultural diplomacy. Currently, Raffi heads multilateral affairs within the Office of Environmental Quality at the US Department of State. The team represents the American people at international environmental agreements and negotiations, including the UN Environment Assembly and Program, and works to reduce transboundary pollution, enhance sustainability and promote inclusivity. Raffi has been an adjunct professor of practice at the University of Maryland and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Exploring collection opportunities and innovative solutions
Ke Wang
Program Director
Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE)
Ke oversees PACE’s programme portfolio to drive systems change at scale through specific interventions. She has led PACE's signature publications including “Circular Economy Action Agenda” and “Circular Economy as a Climate Strategy”. Prior to PACE, Ke had over 10 years’ experience leading research and innovation teams across public, private and civil society sectors. She holds a PhD in applied physics from Stanford University and an Executive MBA from Rotterdam School of Management.
Advisor, Climate Change, Environment & Infrastructure Division, Global Advisory Project GoCircular
German society for International Cooperation (GIZ)
Alexander Batteiger is an advisor to the GIZ’s global advisory project on the circular economy focusing on electronics and batteries. He manages the e-waste working group of the PREVENT Waste Alliance and is part of the supervisory committee of the StEP Initiative. Previously he worked for a project for the sustainable management and disposal of e-waste in Ghana, and as a researcher at Technische Universität Berlin focusing on the interlinks between rural electrification and future domestic e-waste flows.
Leading expert, Head of Unit
Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
Tuuli Myllymaa is an expert on circular economy and waste related issues. She has led the research, development and co-operation activities as manager of SYKE’s waste group and as project manager of the large, national EU LIFE IP financed project Circwaste (2016-2023), as well as implementing the circular economy and national waste plan. Finnish Environment Institute is also the national authority on the trans frontier shipments of waste.
How can we build an efficient reverse supply chain for e-waste through effective regulation implementation
Ke Wang
Program Director
Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE)
Ke oversees PACE’s programme portfolio to drive systems change at scale through specific interventions. She has led PACE's signature publications including “Circular Economy Action Agenda” and “Circular Economy as a Climate Strategy”. Prior to PACE, Ke had over 10 years’ experience leading research and innovation teams across public, private and civil society sectors. She holds a PhD in applied physics from Stanford University and an Executive MBA from Rotterdam School of Management.
Senior Manager Strategic Engagement, Environmental Initiatives EMEIA
Apple
Jonas is managing environmental regulatory compliance and sustainability programmes and facilitating stakeholder conversations across Europe, Middle East, India and Africa at Apple’s environmental initiatives team since 2014. He has a background in European environmental policy and a focus on circular economy, having previously represented Siemens on these topics in Brussels. Jonas holds a PhD on European climate and energy policy.
Chief Executive Officer
European Electronics Recyclers Association (EERA)
Julie-Ann Adams has over 22 years’ experience in the e-waste and batteries waste management sector in Europe. She has been a key player in the development and implementation of the WEEE and battery and accumulator regulations in the UK since 2005 and was appointed by the British Standards Institute as their technical expert in 2008 to actively participate in the development of the standards EN50625 E-Waste Treatment and EN50614 E-Waste Preparing for Re-use. Julie-Ann was Europe’s first approved lead auditor for the certification body The WEEELABEX Organisation (2009) and set up a successful and busy specialist auditing company (Really Green Credentials) covering the continent of Europe.
Program Manager
Netherland Enterprise Agency (RVO)
Robine van Dooren manages international territorial development at RVO. Previously she was project lead for the first international green deal, North Sea Resources Roundabout (NSRR). The NSRR was initiated to create opportunities for green growth in North Sea countries by facilitating sustainable trade and transportation of secondary resources. Robine has experience in national and international academics as well as policy making and implementation, dealing with trade policy, the circular economy and territorial development. She often works with stakeholders who have different backgrounds and fields of expertise. Robine holds a PhD in international economics and economic geography.
Tatiana Terekhova has a leading role in trade and enforcement matters under the global treaties on chemicals and wastes, in particular the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions. She coordinates the partnership programme on the Basel Convention and the engagement with non-state actors. Tatiana implements a number of capacity-building activities, including in relation to marine pollution and plastic wastes and e-waste. She deals with the Sustainable Development Goals and governance issues of the Basel and Stockholm Conventions’ regional centres. She has been in the United Nations family for over 20 years and has a background in international environmental law and law degrees.
From knowledge to action: Acupuncture points for system change
Ke Wang
Program Director
Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE)
Ke oversees PACE’s programme portfolio to drive systems change at scale through specific interventions. She has led PACE's signature publications including “Circular Economy Action Agenda” and “Circular Economy as a Climate Strategy”. Prior to PACE, Ke had over 10 years’ experience leading research and innovation teams across public, private and civil society sectors. She holds a PhD in applied physics from Stanford University and an Executive MBA from Rotterdam School of Management.
Tatiana Terekhova has a leading role in trade and enforcement matters under the global treaties on chemicals and wastes, in particular the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions. She coordinates the partnership programme on the Basel Convention and the engagement with non-state actors. Tatiana implements a number of capacity-building activities, including in relation to marine pollution and plastic wastes and e-waste. She deals with the Sustainable Development Goals and governance issues of the Basel and Stockholm Conventions’ regional centres. She has been in the United Nations family for over 20 years and has a background in international environmental law and law degrees.
Senior Manager Strategic Engagement, Environmental Initiatives EMEIA
Apple
Jonas is managing environmental regulatory compliance and sustainability programmes and facilitating stakeholder conversations across Europe, Middle East, India and Africa at Apple’s environmental initiatives team since 2014. He has a background in European environmental policy and a focus on circular economy, having previously represented Siemens on these topics in Brussels. Jonas holds a PhD on European climate and energy policy.
Program Manager
Netherland Enterprise Agency (RVO)
Robine van Dooren manages international territorial development at RVO. Previously she was project lead for the first international green deal, North Sea Resources Roundabout (NSRR). The NSRR was initiated to create opportunities for green growth in North Sea countries by facilitating sustainable trade and transportation of secondary resources. Robine has experience in national and international academics as well as policy making and implementation, dealing with trade policy, the circular economy and territorial development. She often works with stakeholders who have different backgrounds and fields of expertise. Robine holds a PhD in international economics and economic geography.
Program Director
Platform for Accelerating the Circular Economy (PACE)
Ke oversees PACE’s programme portfolio to drive systems change at scale through specific interventions. She has led PACE's signature publications including “Circular Economy Action Agenda” and “Circular Economy as a Climate Strategy”. Prior to PACE, Ke had over 10 years’ experience leading research and innovation teams across public, private and civil society sectors. She holds a PhD in applied physics from Stanford University and an Executive MBA from Rotterdam School of Management.
Raffi Balian is a US diplomat with more than two decades of experience in environmental, economic, energy and cultural diplomacy. Currently, Raffi heads multilateral affairs within the Office of Environmental Quality at the US Department of State. The team represents the American people at international environmental agreements and negotiations, including the UN Environment Assembly and Program, and works to reduce transboundary pollution, enhance sustainability and promote inclusivity. Raffi has been an adjunct professor of practice at the University of Maryland and is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania and the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Advisor, Climate Change, Environment & Infrastructure Division, Global Advisory Project GoCircular
German society for International Cooperation (GIZ)
Alexander Batteiger is an advisor to the GIZ’s global advisory project on the circular economy focusing on electronics and batteries. He manages the e-waste working group of the PREVENT Waste Alliance and is part of the supervisory committee of the StEP Initiative. Previously he worked for a project for the sustainable management and disposal of e-waste in Ghana, and as a researcher at Technische Universität Berlin focusing on the interlinks between rural electrification and future domestic e-waste flows.
Leading expert, Head of Unit
Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE)
Tuuli Myllymaa is an expert on circular economy and waste related issues. She has led the research, development and co-operation activities as manager of SYKE’s waste group and as project manager of the large, national EU LIFE IP financed project Circwaste (2016-2023), as well as implementing the circular economy and national waste plan. Finnish Environment Institute is also the national authority on the trans frontier shipments of waste.
Chief Executive Officer
European Electronics Recyclers Association (EERA)
Julie-Ann Adams has over 22 years’ experience in the e-waste and batteries waste management sector in Europe. She has been a key player in the development and implementation of the WEEE and battery and accumulator regulations in the UK since 2005 and was appointed by the British Standards Institute as their technical expert in 2008 to actively participate in the development of the standards EN50625 E-Waste Treatment and EN50614 E-Waste Preparing for Re-use. Julie-Ann was Europe’s first approved lead auditor for the certification body The WEEELABEX Organisation (2009) and set up a successful and busy specialist auditing company (Really Green Credentials) covering the continent of Europe.
