Plenary Speakers
Keynote Address 1: Climate and Circular Economy
Panel Discussion 1 : Global Citizenship
Moderator: Dr. Simon Baptist
Global Chief Economist, The Economist Intelligence Unit (Singapore)
Carlos Silva Filho
President, ISWA (Brazil)
Dr. Mohab Al Hinai
VP Sustainability & Circular Economy, be’ah (Sultanate of Oman)
Pascal Grante
CEO, Veolia Near and Middle East (United Arab Emirates)
Eng. Ziyad Al-Shiha
Group CEO, SIRC (Kingdom of Saudi Arabia)
Eng. Ali Al Dhaheri
Managing Director and CEO, Tadweer (United Arab Emirates)
Keynote Address 2: Catalyzing Impact: Building Solution Models for the Global Plastic Waste Challenge
Justin Wood
VP and Head of Europe, Middle East and Africa, Alliance to End Plastic Waste (Singapore)
Focus Session: Community of Action against Plastic Pollution – Focus on the Marine Environment
Christina Jäger
Co-founder & Managing Director
Björn Appelqvist
Scientific and Technical Committee Chair, ISWA (Denmark)
Moderator: Aditi Ramola
Technical Director, ISWA
Oda Korneliussen
Programme Manager, Clean Oceans through Clean Communities, Avfall Norge (Norway)
Dr. Jürgen Hannak
Head of Circular Economy Program, adelphi (Germany)
Panel Discussion 2: Perspectives on The Current Regime Development of International Environmental Discourse
Moderator: Philip Heylen
International Relations & Corporate Affairs Officer, Ackermans & van Haaren (Belgium)
Louis De Poncheville
Senior VP - Waste Business Development, SUEZ (France)
Aline Cardoso
Secretary of Economic Development and Labor (Brazil)
Christina Jäger
Co-founder & Managing Director
Els van Doesburg
Vice mayor of Antwerp (Belgium)
Björn Appelqvist
Scientific and Technical Committee Chair, ISWA (Denmark)
Panel Discussion 3: CEO Roundtable: The Next Billion Tons!
Moderator: Marième Travaly
Infrastructure and Natural Resources Regional Manager and Regional Industry Head, Middle East, Central Asia, Türkiye, Afghanistan and Pakistan, International Finance Corporation (IFC)
Mazen Chebaklo
CEO, Averda (United Arab Emirates)
Aditya Handa
Founder & MD, Abellon Group (India)
Carlos Silva Filho
President, ISWA (Brazil)
Louis De Poncheville
Senior VP - Waste Business Development, SUEZ (France)
Özgür Umut EROĞLU
CEO, Biotrend (Türkiye)
Panel Discussion 4: Net-Zero Industry Leadership: Charting a Sustainable Course for a Greener Future
Moderator: Dr. Simon Baptist
Global Chief Economist, The Economist Intelligence Unit (Singapore)
Hani Tohme
Managing Director and Head of Sustainability, Roland Berger MENA (United Arab Emirates)
Masood Mallick
Chief Executive Officer, Re Sustainability
ISWA Working Groups
Delila Khaled
Founder and Principle, impaXus (Egypt)
Aditya Handa
Founder & MD, Abellon Group (India)
Moderator: Aditi Ramola
Technical Director, ISWA
James Law
Chair of ISWA WG on Landfill and Task Force on Closing Dumpsites, Vice President in Raleigh, NC - SCS Engineers
Rene Rosendal
Vice-Chair of WGL, and Senior Project Manager, AV Miljø and Partner at Danish Waste Solutions (Denmark)
Prof. Sahadat Hossain
Director of Solid Waste Institute for Sustainability (SWIS) & Professor of Civil Engineering Department, The University of Texas at Arlington (USA)
James D. Michelsen
Sr. Industry Specialist, International Finance Corporation (IFC) (USA)
Masood Mallick
Chief Executive Officer, Re Sustainability
Valeria Branca
Project Manager, EXPRA
Kartik Kapoor
Waste Management Consultant
Mpendulo Ginindza
Head: SHEQ (Safety, Health, Environment and Quality) at Mintek and President of Institute of Waste Management Southern Africa (IWMSA)
Georgina Nitzsche
ISWA, Women of Waste Task Force Coordinator (UK/Austria)
Shiza Aslam
Engineering X open burning grant awardee (Pakistan)
Maria Tsakona
Senior Expert, Waste and Marine Litter | GRID Arendal | WOW! Task Force Leader (Greece)