Federico Magalini, a Mechanical Engineer, holds a PhD in Management, Economics and Industrial Engineering from Politecnico di Milano University. He focuses his research activities on e-waste management and is an author of more than 30 publications in national, international journals and conference proceedings, as well as co-author of the first Italian book on e-waste management, published in 2005.
As a Research Associate since 2005 at UNU-ISP SCYCLE, Federico has been working with the Solving the E-waste Problem (StEP) Initiative on e-waste, including the studies for the European Commission on the review of the WEEE Directive; he is currently focusing on capacity building projects mainly in developing countries as project manager of Ewaste Academy – Managers Edition.
Between 2008 and 2011 Federico has also been working as Quality & Operations Manager in italian take-back system, and in 2011 he founded CYRCLE, his own consulting company, in addition to his UNU-related activities.
