Ms. Cenni is a programme officer of the Technical Assistance Branch of the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions Secretariat, where she coordinates the online training programme.
Previously she coordinated the Probo Koala assistance programme in Africa, the E-waste Africa programme and the Mercury programme of the Basel Convention, facilitating projects in cooperation with the Basel Regional Centres.
Prior to joining UNEP, Ms. Cenni was the environmental manager of a chemical company in the waste water treatment sector, where she was responsible for the environmental management system, according to the ISO 14000 standards. In UNEP she worked for the Secretariat of the Stockholm Convention and for the Secretariat of the Rotterdam Convention. Also, she was a member of the team in charge of the Palestinian-Israeli portfolio of activities of the Post-Conflict and Disaster Management Branch.
Ms. Cenni, an Italian national, holds a Master's degree in environmental sciences and studied at Bologna University, in Italy and Lund University in Sweden, where she specialized in marine toxicology.
