Mr. Pascal Leroy
Director General
WEEE Forum
Brussels
Pascal Leroy has, for the past twenty years, worked at international level in the field of electronic waste management and policies, first as chief lobbyist at APPLiA, and since 2007 as Director General of the WEEE Forum, a worldwide association representing forty producer responsibility organisations. Together with its members, the WEEE Forum are at the forefront of turning the extended producer responsibility principle into an effective electronic waste management policy approach through its combined knowledge of the technical, business and operational aspects of collection, logistics, de-pollution, processing, preparing for reuse and reporting of e-waste. Our mission is to be the world’s foremost e-waste competence centre excelling in the implementation of the circularity principle. Leroy is an expert in communication on complex, supra-national environmental legislation and policy, in particular electronic waste recycling, and environmental challenges.
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Ms. Vanessa Gray
Head, Environment and Emergency Telecommunications Division
International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Ms. Vanessa Gray is the Head of the Division for Least Developed Countries (LDCs), Small Island Developing States (SIDS) and Emergency Telecommunications within the ITU’s Telecommunication Development Bureau (BDT). In this position, she is responsible for studying the ICT needs of LDCs, Landlocked Developing Countries (LLDCs) and SIDS, developing specific programs of assistance tailored to address the particular vulnerabilities of these countries, and identifying ICT for development opportunities. Ms Gray coordinates the Telecommunication Development Bureau’s work in the area of Emergency Telecommunications, to develop ICT projects and provide assistance for disaster prevention, preparedness, mitigation, response, and recovery. She is also responsible for the BDT’s work on e-waste and climate change adaptation. Prior to this position, Ms Gray was a Senior ICT Analyst in the BDT’s ICT Data and Statistics Division and contributed to the design and preparation of the Division’s analytical publications, including the Measuring the Information Society Report (MISR). She also contributed to and coordinated the analysis of information society developments, organized ICT-related meetings, and delivered national and regional trainings and workshops on ICT statistics to ITU member states. Ms Gray was the ITU focal point for the Inter-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) on MDG/SDG Indicators and provided advice on the work on monitoring the MDGs and SDGs in the area of ICTs. Ms Gray holds a Master’s degree in Political Science and Economics from the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies in Geneva, Switzerland.
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Ms. Jennifer Sanford
Director
International Trade & Environmental Policy in the Government Affairs Department
CISCO
Washington, DC Jennifer Sanford joined Cisco in April 2004, and currently serves as Director of International Trade & Environmental Policy in the Government Affairs Department in Washington, DC. Ms. Sanford is responsible for advancing Cisco’s international trade policy agenda. She also manages Cisco’s U.S. climate & energy policy vision, strategy and execution, in areas such as grid modernization, climate change, energy efficiency, e-waste and eco-design. Ms. Sanford serves as Chair of the Industry Trade Advisory Committee on the Digital Economy (ITAC-8), Chair of the Telecommunications Industry Association (TIA) International Committee, and Member of the International Trade and Economic Diplomacy Advisory Committee for the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey. Prior to Cisco, Ms. Sanford was Director of International Trade Policy for seven years at the American Electronics Association (AeA) in Washington, DC, where she successfully led the high-tech industry’s efforts to secure Congressional passage of legislation to reauthorize Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) in 2002, and to establish China’s Permanent Normal Trade Relations (PNTR) status in 2000. She also worked for many years on the development and implementation of the European Union (EU) environmental and energy laws on electronics. Her career began in 1996 in San Francisco, CA, with a customs consulting and publishing firm, Worldtariff (now owned by FedEx). Ms. Sanford holds B.A. in International Studies (1994) and an M.A. in International Policy Studies (1995) from the Middlebury Institute of International Studies in Monterey.
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Ms. Lorraine Tew
Sustainability Manager, Cloud Supply Chain Sustainability Team,
Microsoft
London
Lorraine specialises in cloud supply chain sustainability at Microsoft, collaborating across a complex network of global partners and utilizing material and science-based methodologies to empower all parties to manage performance and drive new behaviours towards ambitious targets for emissions reductions. As a purpose driven driver of behaviour change, Lorraine has worked with large global corporations for over 15 years in ICT hardware lifecycle management, and brings experience of overcoming the challenges of leading circular strategies that focus on value retention, data security and net zero ambitions.
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Mr. Jelle Slenters
Head of Business Development EMEIA
Sims Lifecycle Services
Amsterdam Jelle Slenters is the Head of Business Development (EMEA) for Sims Recycling Solutions’s IT Asset Disposition division. Sims Recycling Solution’s mission is to create a world without waste, working in partnership with clients to engineer ITAD and recycling programs that deliver optimum value recovery, compliance and security, anywhere in the world. Passionate about building sustainable solutions that support the Circular Economy, Jelle has worked within the ITAD industry since 2003 . He holds degrees in economics and social economics from Hogeschool InHolland and the University of West of England. As a natural innovator Jelle’s forward-leaning approach enables him to push against the status quo, stimulate challenging debate and lead the charge for more environmentally sympathetic IT use and disposal models. |
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Mr. Patrick Hickey
R&D Adviser
Wisetek Solutions
Cork Pat is R&D Adviser with Wisetek Solutions in Cork Ireland. He is also a director of DCES, a not-for-profit research organization based in Dublin, Ireland. Prior to that he was Global Director of Engineering and IT with Wisetek Solutions, whose main activities revolve around forward and reverse logistics for the Electronics and IT industry. Wisetek is also heavily involved in the ITAD (Information Technology Asset Disposition) business with 5 processing locations in the USA. Prior to that, Pat spent 8 years as a Management Consultant with Adaptive HVM in Dublin Ireland, specializing in Industrial Engineering and productivity improvement and before that he was Executive Operations Director with CTVR, a Telecommunications Research center headquartered at Trinity College Dublin. Pat also spent 14 years with the Intel Corporation. His first role with Intel was as Head of Manufacturing Engineering and later, he became joint head of Manufacturing Operations for two of Intel's Semiconductor Fabrication Facilities in Ireland. He holds a Diploma in Industrial Engineering as well as a BA (Mgt), MBA and a DBA. His most recent publication in the Journal of Enterprise and Information Management explores issues prohibiting re-use of valuable equipment parts in secondary semiconductor markets and develops a technology solution which addresses the time and complexity issues detailed in the research. Pat also runs a not for profit research center based in Dublin Ireland, in association with his colleague, Professor Eugene Kozlovski from the University of Wales, Trinity St. David.
Mr Gilles Dretsch
Corporate Social Responsibility Department
Orange Gilles Dretsch has been working for the Orange Group for 20 years. After having managed several innovation projects for mobile network evolutions in the R&D Division and be involved in 3GPP standardization and European Collaborative projects, he joined the Corporate Social Responsibility Department of Orange between 2009 and 2014. His main mission in the Environment Division was to define and coordinate waste management policy and initiatives at corporate level for Orange subsidiaries in Europe and Africa to both ensure regulation compliancy and develop new value creation opportunities. He was also responsible of the relationships with external stakeholders (public authorities, industry, customers, NGO, investors…) on that subjects. From 2020, he is in charge to support and provide expertise to Orange Countries in network evolutions and transformation for Green ITN aspects regarding especially energy efficiency and eco-design to contribute to Net Zero Carbon objective in 2040. Mr René-Louis Perrier President Ecologic René-Louis Perrier is an engineer from the Ecole Polytechnique and holds a PhD in solid state physic. After starting a career in R&D with Thomson CSF then Schlumberger from 1987 to 1996, René-Louis Perrier developed the service business for GOSS graphic systems in the USA from 1997 to 2002. Back in France in 2003 he developed a new line of electric equipment for SAGEM before creating Ecologic in 2005. He has been the president of Ecologic since then. |
