Kees Baldé earned his PhD in chemistry from Utrecht University in 2008. Afterwards, he took a position on the environmental statistics team at Statistics Netherlands, where he is the head of waste statistics and serves as a Dutch delegate at numerous international meetings.
Kees initiated and was a key contributor to the 2011 report on Green Growth in the Netherlands, for which he earned an internal innovation award from his Director. From 2012 onwards, Kees splits his time between Statisticss Netherlands and the United Nations University. This has lead to a detailed assessment of the fate of e-waste in various European countries and setting guidelines to measure e-waste statistics in the context of the Partnership on Measuring ICT for development.
