Mark helps big companies think like small ones and small companies think like big ones. He works on innovation of products, services and business models; he works on sustainability and company purpose; and he coaches businesses and individuals. He has saved his clients in excess of £140 million per annum through environmental improvements, has increased sales of products by 8000% by introducing circular economy business models and trained over 2000 people in sustainability.  He has worked for Nike, SC Johnson, Schweppes, Papa Johns, Heinz, Patagonia, Sportsshoes, Interface, Coca-Cola, Seedlip, Unilever, Hotpoint, Samsung, John Lewis, Fenwick, Teapigs, Bacardi, Diageo, Mars, Thorntons, 3M, Amazon, Panasonic and hundreds of funky little businesses like Propercorn, Teapigs, Hiut Denim, and Ugly Drinks. He was a lead for the RSA Great Recovery programme of Circular Economy and was once the Head of Environment for ASDA. He is a Founding Partner of the Do Lectures and author of two books Do Disrupt, change the status quo or become it and Do Present, how to give a talk and be heard. He is a coach, workshop facilitator and Qi gong teacher.  Mark is also part of the reasons to be cheerful team, which he co-founded in in 2020.

Helen is a physicist and oceanographer with a passion for science, sport, books, creativity, hot chocolate and investigating the interesting things in life. Helen has both a BSc and PhD from the University of Cambridge. 

Helen has a gift of distilling complicated scientific information into interesting and engaging programmes and her TV work includes From Ice to Fire: The incredible Science of Temperature, Sound Waves: The Symphony of Physics, Colour: The Spectrum of Science along with Orbit: Earth’s Extraordinary Journey, Operation Iceberg, Ocean Autopsy as well as various Horizons. 

Helen has written 2 books, hosts the Ocean Matters podcast and speaks at events all over the UK and around the world. 

Dr Janez Potočnik (1958) is an economist graduated from the Faculty of Economics at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He served as Director of the Institute of Macroeconomic Analysis and Development in Ljubljana. He was appointed Head of Negotiating Team for Accession of Slovenia to the EU and served as Minister responsible for European Affairs. In 2004 he joined the European Commission as Commissioner responsible for Science and Research. In that period among others, he introduced ERC – European Research Council. In 2010 he became Commissioner for Environment when he proposed the first Circular Economy package in EU policy space. After the mandate he was appointed as a Co-Chair of UNEP Environment International Resource Panel. He is also Partner at SYSTEMIQ and one of the founders of the Systems Transformation Hub. 

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Khaled Al Huraimel is Group CEO and Vice Chairman of BEEAH, a company that has grown at an incredible rate from its origins in waste management to a diversified conglomerate operating across industries that are critical to shaping a sustainable, smart future and elevating quality of life.

Since August 2009, Khaled Al Huraimel’s transformational leadership has enabled the company to achieve tenfold growth in just over a decade. Today, the company has scaled to a workforce of over 13,000, entered new geographies including the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and Egypt, and diversified into various sectors such as waste management, recycling, clean energy, environmental consulting, education, green
mobility, technology, healthcare, and real estate.

Under his leadership, Group has achieved unprecedented landmarks in sustainability, driving towards zero waste to landfill and pioneering waste to energy innovations. His zero waste strategies have helped position Sharjah as the city with 90% landfill waste diversion, which is the highest in the Middle East, supported by advanced integrated
recycling and the region’s first commercial-scale waste-to-energy plant.

Khaled has forged strategic alliances with global corporations such as Masdar, PIF, Microso, Johnson Controls, SAP, and Tesla, which have further broadened BEEAH’s potential for positive impact and innovation locally, regionally, and international.

Khaled’s commitment to growth and innovation has contributed significantly to BEEAH’s regional growth and diversification. He founded and enabled the success of several digital ventures that have transformed technological infrastructure across sectors and disrupted industries, notably implementing track and trace technologies
for medicinal supply chains through EVOTEQ, driving the trade of recyclables for the circular economy through re.life and developing plans for the region’s first data center powered by waste-to-energy through Khazna Sharjah. He also led the vision for the development of the iconic BEEAH Headquarters, the Middle East’s first AI-integrated
building, in partnership with Zaha Hadid Architects, showcasing a model for future smart offices of the future.

In addition to his role at BEEAH, Khaled’s strategic vision extends across multiple sectors. He serves as Chairman of the Emirates Waste to Energy Company and re.life, and as a board member for Evoteq, Sharjah Research, Technology, and Innovation Park, and more.

Khaled’s educational background, with a bachelor’s degree in marketing and an MBA, complemented by leadership programs at Harvard Business School and Wharton Business School, forms the foundation of his strategic and visionary leadership. As a co-author of “Reimagining Business with AI,” Khaled Al Huraimel embodies the essence of a futurist leader, pioneering the intersection of sustainability, technology, and innovation to forge a future where BEEAH Group stands as a critical player in the global narrative of progress and sustainability.

Other Roles:
• Chairman: Emirates Waste to Energy Company, re.life, ION, Evoteq
• Board Member: Sharjah Research, Technology, and Innovation Park (SRTIP),
Wekaya, United Arab Bank (UAB) and CapitalH
• Council Member: UAE-France Business Council

Adam is a member of the Suez UK Management Board since 2017, and has over 30 years’ experience in academia, local government, and environmental consultancy. Adam leads Suez’s policy engagement with Government and works with amongst others the ESA, Aldersgate Group, Green Alliance, and CIWM on refining future regulations. He collaborates with brands on packaging reforms and is a regular guest speaker at industry events reflecting on the sustainable packaging supply chain. His is a former CIWM President, he champions green skills, served on the UK Green Jobs Delivery Group, mentors young professionals, and promotes careers in the circular economy. 

His PhD focused on UK waste policy failures, and he received an MBE in 2024 for his contribution to the evolution of the resources sector, in particular the growth of recycling and more recently commercial reuse and repair. 

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Vicki Hughes is President of CIWM and has almost 40 years’ experience across manufacturing, recycling and resource management. Her Think Again campaign encourages people to look differently at waste, resources and the sector itself. Vicki is passionate about bringing people together, raising standards and encouraging greater collaboration across the industry.

Emma currently works as a Senior Consultant at Rooted, with over six years of experience in consultancy within the waste and resources sector, having previous held roles at WSP and AECOM. She brings a strong track record of supporting organisations on sustainability, circular economy, and waste and resource management challenges across the UK for both public and private clients. 

Emma is also the current CIWM’s Early Careers President. As the Early Careers President, Emma is committed to building an inclusive and dynamic community that empowers the next generation of waste and resources professionals. She is particularly focused on creating opportunities for collaboration, skills development, and outreach programmes, while encouraging fresh perspectives that can help drive positive change across the sector. Emma is excited to be leading a team of Early Career Ambassadors that will inspire and support emerging talent, helping to shape a more sustainable and forward-thinking future for the waste and resources industry. 

Andy has 43 years experience of working in the environmental field, including spending the last 27 years in the area of waste strategy. Andy has been Head of Waste Strategy at the Welsh Government for the last 23 years and is responsible for waste and circular economy strategy policy. Andy was awarded an OBE by the Her Majesty the Queen for ‘services to the environment and recycling in Wales’ in the New Year Honours 2019. In May 2022 Andy was included in the inaugural ENDS “Power List” naming the 100 UK environmental professionals who have made the greatest impact in the last two years – as nominated by their colleagues, clients and competitors.

Aditi is the Technical Director at the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) where she manages international projects and partnerships with the UN, provides assistance to ISWA’s Working Groups and helps develop innovative projects globally to further strengthen cooperation with ISWA’s partners and international organizations.

Her skills are particularly focused on solid waste management and environmental issues. Aditi holds a master’s in Environmental Technology and International Affairs from the Vienna University of Technology. She has several years of experience in the private sector including at Caterpillar Inc. before joining the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) in the Climate Policy and Networks unit. Aditi is also passionate about science education and was the founding member and lead of the ISWA Young Professionals Group (YPG) initiative on Education and is the past Chair of the ISWA YPG.

An entrepreneur and investor with international experience across the technology, infrastructure and energy sectors. He has focused on environmental protection and the green transition, developing Eneris, a Polish circular economy platform.

He combines waste management, resource recovery and recycling with the energy transition, advancing an approach in which waste becomes a resource. He also invests in innovative technologies and solutions that support sustainable development.

He founded the dela.art foundation and contemporary art collection and is actively involved in promoting private patronage of culture. He sees culture as a form of soft power and a means of strengthening Poland’s international image. 

Stefanus Ade Hadiwidjaja is an investment expert with experience in private equity and Sovereign Wealth Funds. Prior to joining Danantara Indonesia, he served as the Chief Investment Officer at the Indonesia Investment Authority (INA) since its inception, playing a strategic role in managing the country’s investments. Under his leadership at INA, Stefanus has been involved in investments across the Digital Infrastructure, Healthcare, and Technology sectors.

Previously, he led investments at Creador as Managing Director and Head of Indonesia and Singapore for nearly a decade. He also served as CEO of Simba Indosnack (2016–2019), one of Creador’s portfolio companies. His career also includes experience as a Project Leader at the Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and various strategic roles in the financial and industrial sectors.

Under his leadership, INA has invested more than US$4 billion over the past four years, collaborating with leading global investors such as ADIA, ADQ, GIC, BlackRock, SRF, and the Swire Group.

As an investor, he has a strong track record in both investment and divestment in private equity. He is known for his sharp eye in identifying investment opportunities, particularly in the healthcare, consumer, and infrastructure sectors. 

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I´m a young specialist in solid waste management with keen interested in development and implementation of sustainable municipal organic waste management.
As a post-doc researcher, I fulfil several roles. I am engaged in research and development activities on material and energy recovery from biowaste including application-oriented projects in developing countries and innovative studies in the context of the German bio-economy. Furthermore, I am coordinating the activity of German national membership at the international solid waste association (ISWA).

Anja Schwetje is a Senior Scientific Officer of the German Environment Agency (UBA) in the Section III 2.4 ‘Waste Technology, Waste Technology Transfer’ and since 2014 responsible for topics on waste with a nexus to climate protection and methane emission reduction. She is the one of the Co-Leads of the Waste Hub of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC), Vice-Chair of the Working Group on Climate Change and Waste Management of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA), Co-Chair of the Working Group on Organic Waste of the PREVENT Waste Alliance and an active member of the Global Methane Initiative (GMI), the German RETech Partnership and others. By profession a process engineer, she has more than 30 years of international experience in waste management and circular economy.

David C. Wilson is a senior professional in waste and resource management, working in both the global north and the global south. He is a career consultant (Harwell Laboratory 1977-84, Environmental Resources Management (ERM) 1985-2004, independent consultant 2004-date) and part-time academic (Visiting Professor in Waste and Resource Management at Imperial College London since 2000). He was President of CIWM in 2017-18, and was elected as an ISWA Honorary Life Member in 2019. Professor Wilson’s work has centred on providing high level advice to governments, cities, international organisations and consultancies, with a focus on: •waste and resource policy, strategy and planning, in both developing and developed countries; •building the capacity and resilience of regions and cities, and of communities and institutions; •infrastructure development; and •research to provide evidence for policy making. Professor Wilson’s international work has included many seminal reports. For example, he led on UNEP and ISWA’s inaugural Global Waste Management Outlook (GWMO 2015); ISWA/UNEP/Basel Convention’s Training Resource Pack for Hazardous Waste Management in Developing Economies (2003); and the World Bank’s definitive Strategic Planning Guide for Municipal Solid Waste Management (2001). He co-led on UN-Habitat’s flagship Solid Waste Management in the World’s Cities (2010); and was a contributing author to UNEP and ISWA’s most recent GWMO 2024. Professor Wilson’s research work bridges academia and practical waste and resource management on the ground. His recent magnum opus is ‘Learning from the past to plan for the future: an historical review of the evolution of waste and resource management 1970-2020 and reflections on priorities 2020-2030 – the perspective of an involved witness’ (https://doi.org/10.1177/0734242X231178025). That uses the Nine Development Bands theory of waste and development (https://doi.org/10.1177/0734242X211035926); these papers won two of his six ISWA Publication Awards since 2003. His invited paper Rethinking waste and resource management for underserved communities will appear in a 2026 Special Issue on Integrated Solid Waste Management of the leading development journal Oxford Development Studies (https://doi.org/10.1080/13600818.2025.2473957).

Emma Beal is a fellow of CIWM, a member of the CIWM policy and innovation forum, an independent consultant, board member and former chief executive with nearly 30 years’ experience in the resources, waste, circular economy, climate and public sectors. She specialises in strategy, organisational transformation, governance, policy development, stakeholder engagement and the delivery of complex change. She is the founder of All We Have Ltd. advising governments, public, private and voluntary organisations on climate change related strategic reviews, business cases, partnership development and organisational design.  She previously served as Chief Executive of West London Waste Authority, where she led a £70m organisation and delivered significant financial and service transformation. Her career spans senior leadership positions within the private and public sector, combining commercial, regulatory and public sector expertise. 

I am working in the field of solid waste management since almost 30 years, being involved in projects, assessments, guideline preparation, start-up of new collection schemes, composting and AD plant, compost quality and production, awareness and advertising strategies.

I worked in more than 7 EU member countries, and in countries located in Asia, Latin America, and North Africa elaborating policies and strategies for sustainable waste management with a specific focus on bio-waste, composting and MBT.

In the last 13 years I focused on bio-waste collection and recycling both in Italy on behalf of CIC (the Italian Composting and Biogas Consortium) and worldwide for ISWA (the International Solid Waste Association). Besides I regularly design and plan MSW service for companies and municipalities in Italy and foreign countries.

I travel regularly abroad (from Asia to Latin-America and in EU) being invited as a presenter in Conferences, Workshops and Seminars.

I have skilled knowledge about:
-Chairing and management of multi-disciplinary and international working groups and workshops
-project for MSW management
Guidelines on separate collection, waste management, and sustainable waste management
-Database evaluation and elaboration
-Management of websites (technical content and layout)
– Waste PAYT charges: evaluation, design, assessment
-Vocation training
-Waste reduction/prevention
-MSW projects in remote areas and border areas such as: Islands, Mountain Communities

Internationally experienced Commercial Director with a demonstrated history of working in the renewables and environment sectors. Cradle to grave waste management solutions, highly professional, and skilled in negotiation across a variety of continents. Developed solutions for Waste Management Operations, Landfill Gas to Energy, Anaerobic Digestions Technologies, Business and Strategy Planning. Ist International Waste Manager in Mexico with the International Solid Waste Association. Working on Environmental Attribute Generation and Trading in Central and North America, including Medium BTU Landfill Gas to End Use Projects, Renewable Energy Credits.

Global Market Director at Ramboll – a global consulting engineering company. Highly experienced Waste-to-Energy project director and has been responsible for Waste-to-Energy projects Worldwide over the last 25+ years. Currently Technical Advisor for National Environmental Agency, Singapore, during the development of the Integrated Waste Management Facility planned for an annual WTE capacity of 2 mill tonnes and more than 200,000 tonnes of bio-waste and recyclables for sorting. Has been ISWA Board member and chaired ISWA’s Working Group on Energy Recovery for eight years. Task Force Steering Group for Waste-to-Energy’s role in the cicular economy.

Drawing on extensive experience in sales, marketing, operations, and executive management, I provide strategic consulting and industrial expertise in resource recovery within the renewable energy and environmental sectors, acting as:
– Founding President of the consulting firm WasteTT;
– A recognized speaker and panelist at numerous international conferences, webinars, and symposia (Europe, Middle East, Asia, USA);
– An expert member of various industrial working groups and advocacy associations, such as #ISWA, #ESWET, CEWEP, AMORCE, FEDENE, FNADE, PREWIN, IWWG, and the UN Task Force on Air Pollution.

With over 30 years of achievements in the environment and energy sectors, my expertise spans sustainable development, the circular economy, and the energy transition, specifically in:
– Municipal waste treatment via energy recovery and material recycling;
– Flue gas treatment for power plants, incineration facilities, and the maritime sector;
– Seawater desalination;
– Renewable energy production using concentrated solar power, cogeneration, and electricity generation from biomass or waste;
– Absorption cooling and thermal heat pumps. I support innovation and market/technology monitoring by establishing strategic partnerships for innovative technologies, such as alternative thermal treatments (gasification, pyrolysis), refuse-derived fuels (RDF), hydrogen production, and carbon capture.

My experience spans the entire value chain, encompassing design, project management, procurement, marketing and sales, public relations, and executive management. It includes managing complex public tenders for waste-to-energy projects within consortia—such as the bid and contract signing for the turnkey construction of the Turin (Italy) plant; bids for waste treatment facilities under DBO (Design-Build-Operate) contracts in France (€2 billion) or BOT (Build-Operate-Transfer)/PPP (Public-Private Partnership) models in Italy; and providing technical expertise for arbitration cases in the Middle East.

I am the elected Vice-Chair of the ISWA Energy from Waste Working Group and a member of its Scientific and Technical Committee. I am also a member of various professional associations, including AFITE, ASTEE, #ATEE, OFATE, RISPO, IWWG, Bioenergy Europe, and the WTERT expert community. Additionally, I serve as a visiting lecturer for the Master’s program in Environment at Sorbonne Paris Nord University.

Over 20 years experience in waste and resource management, with focus on contract and infrastructure management. Leader of projects, people and development.

International Development professional with 7+ years of experience working on international programmes focused on solving complex global challenges. I strongly believe in the power of partnership to bring about collective action, including ensuring inclusivity in decision making and development of solutions. Following an immersive interdisciplinary Masters, working with a NGO on a project in Sierra Leone, I have worked with an African Diaspora Charity and several roles at the Royal Academy of Engineering. Currently working on an innovative programme tackling open burning of waste, bringing together stakeholders from across the world to achieve change.

As a trained Software and Systems Architect Engineer, I have developed expertise in project management—broadly, and specifically regarding Information and Communication Technologies (ICT), as well as areas such as sustainable development, climate change, and solid waste management within the Senegalese government. I also have the distinction of being a three-time national champion and two-time African champion in Software Design at Microsoft’s Imagine Cup (a global technology competition) between 2009 and 2011. I am passionate, versatile, and thrive on challenges.