Ms Rosie McDonald, Climate Change Officer, ITU
Session moderator
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Rosie McDonald is a Climate Change Officer within the ITU's Telecommunication Development Bureau. She supports ITU's efforts in green digital transformation by providing research, tools and capacity building to address environmental challenges related to climate change and e-waste. Her work focuses on monitoring greenhouse gas emissions and climate commitments of the ICT industry, and e-waste data and statistics capacity building under the Global E-waste Statistics Partnership (GESP).
Prior to ITU, she worked in the science and technical branch of the Secretariat of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm (BRS) Conventions, and was also a modeller for the land use, land use change and forestry (LULUCF) sector of the UK national greenhouse gas inventory. Within a higher education setting, she has experience of working in STEM outreach and teaching environmental statistics and GIS. She holds a PhD in Environment Sciences from the UK Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and an MSc in Environmental Protection and Management from The University of Edinburgh (UK). |
Ms Andrea McCormick, Global Lead for Sustainability Programmes, Vodafone Group
Panelist 
| Andrea McCormick leads global sustainability programmes at Vodafone Group, turning sustainability ambition into practical delivery across 15 markets in Europe and Africa, from climate and renewable energy to circularity and digital inclusion. Previously Head of Sustainability at OVO Energy, she led work to decarbonise home energy in the UK. With 19 years in sustainable business transformation, including advisory roles with PwC and ERM, Andrea is a regular speaker and published commentator on climate transition and corporate sustainability. She holds an MSc in Environmental Technology from Imperial College London.
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Ms Jean Cox-Kearns, Global ESG - Circular Economy Lead, Lenovo
Panelist
| Jean Cox-Kearns has more than 25 years of experience across environmental compliance, policy development and implementation, corporate social responsibility, sustainability, and the circular economy.
She spent 17 years with Dell, where she implemented WEEE, battery, and packaging compliance programmes across Europe and globally. From 2019 to 2021, she ran her own sustainability consultancy, supporting global IT brands with corporate social responsibility strategies and regulatory and standards compliance activities. From 2021 to 2023, she served as Chief Sustainability Officer at TES. She now works with Lenovo as part of the Global ESG Team focused on Circular Economy programs.
Education and Leadership Roles: - M.Sc. in Executive Leadership
- Postgraduate qualification in Design Thinking for Sustainability
- Chair of the International Electronics Recycling Congress, now in its 25th year
- Chair of the Board of an Irish mental health charity
- Member of the SERI Technical Advisory Committee for the R2 Standard and the new SERI ESG Standard
Over the past 25 years, Jean has worked extensively across Europe, the United States, South America, Asia, Australia, and West and East Sub-Saharan Africa.
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Mr Gerardo Parco, Director of Sustainability and Climate Change, OPEC Fund Panelist 
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Mr Parco is the Director of the Sustainability and Climate Change Unit at the OPEC Fund for International Development. He leads a team managing the Environmental and Social safeguards and Climate requirements of investment projects for both the sovereign and non-sovereign portfolio of OPEC Fund. His portfolio of projects span Asia and the Pacific, South Asia, Central Asia, Middle East and North Africa, Latin America and Africa.
The projects and operations he oversees are include high-risk infrastructure project such as dams, renewable energy (wind and solar), expressways, urban projects, and more. Private sector work includes work with financial intermediaries, trade finance operations and corporate loans.
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