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Joëlle Vanhamme is Professeur de marketing at EDHEC Business School.

Anastasia Vayona is a social scientist with a background in circular economy, sustainability, and citizen engagement and have over 20 years of cross-cultural experience spanning five countries.

Her research on citizens’ perceptions of circular packaging for food and beverage products has led to the development of the innovative “Human In the Circular Loop” (HITCL) approach. Currently based at Bournemouth University, Anastasia investigates the intersection of human perceptions of environmental issues like biodiversity and sustainable diets. Her work bridges academic research and practical industry applications.
 

Ramona Vijeyarasa is Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney and Women's Leadership Institute Australia Research Fellow.

Dr Tom Voege is Policy Director of the PRO Circularity Alliance in addition to his role as Director of Public Policy & EU Representative at GRS PRO, where he shapes regulatory strategy around the circular economy and EPR. With a background spanning the United Nations and the OECD, he brings deep insights from global policymaking to practical implementation. His academic training, holding a PhD and MSc in Engineering and Environment from the University of Southampton, is complemented by 20+ years of professional experience.

Dr Christina Webb is a Research Fellow researching Sustainable Electronic Textiles at the University of Southampton. Her background is in Materials Engineering with a specialism in engineered materials for the aerospace, automotive, and medical sectors; with a particular focus on sustainability.

Dr Mateusz Wielopolski is actually a chemist by training, who specialised in the field of polymers and composites. This led him over the last 12 years into the space of circular materials innovation for the development of sustainable product concepts in various industries. After obtaining an MBA in sports management, he focused more and more on circular innovations in the sports and apparel sector and is now one of the co-founders of Circulix. Circulix seeks to empower fashion and apparel enterprises to become circular. Its circularity engine delivers the intelligence to provide understanding and insights to help empower the right decisions from design to recycling across the entire value chain based on a company’s data.

Ian Williams is Professor of Applied Environmental Science at the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences, University of Southampton. He is a multi award-winning academic who specialises in environmental pollution and resource management. Ian has published 16 books and over 300 peer-reviewed papers on waste and environmental issues, as well as over 100 commercial project reports.

He obtained his first degree in Chemistry from the University of Surrey in 1988 and a PhD in Public Attitudes to Air Pollution from Road Traffic from Middlesex University in 1995. He has been a lecturer at Middlesex University (1989-2000), the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan, 2000-2004) and the University of Southampton (UoS, 2005-present). He was the founder and Head of the Centre for Waste Management at the UCLan. He has appeared numerous times on broadcast media, including on the BBC, Sky, and France24.

Dr Andrew Wilson is Honorary Professor at the Australian National University, Fenner School of Environment and Society and Senior Visiting Fellow at the University of New South Wales, Institute of Environmental Studies. He is also principal of Australian Wildlife Services.

George Wilson has worked for >50 yrs in a range of wildlife, environmental, agricultural and disease management occupations. His experience covers surveys, ecological research, Indigenous land management, advice to governments and industry on resource management, animal welfare, quarantine and disease management.

He has worked for both State & Federal Governments and British Government agencies in scientific research, public policy, and strategic analysis.

Dr Wilson has a particular interest in kangaroo management and supporting graziers to value kangaroos on their lands. His interest began in 1970 as a biologist with the NSW NPWS. In Scotland he worked on similar theme on Red Grouse and Red Deer, focusing on population ecology and disease management that maximises their value to landholders and so enables the species to compete with economic pressures to convert their habitat to sheep grasslands which have less biodiversity value.

His company Australian Wildlife Services has worked with Indigenous communities, farmers and graziers, natural resource managers, and zoos throughout Australia. Sustainable use leads to better animal welfare and the opportunity of saving methane emissions contributing to biodiversity conservation.

Dr Wilson has > 4400 hours aeronautical experience as a commercial pilot conducting surveys of kangaroos and camels in central Australia and waterbird surveys down the Murray River. He collaborated with Graeme Caughley to conduct the first broad scale kangaroo surveys of Australia.

He has held many honorary positions including as Commissioner Emeritus with the IUCN Species Survival Commission in recognition of his chairmanship of the Australian Marsupial Specialist Group. In 2021 he was made a Member of the Order of Australia for contributions to wildlife conservation, veterinary science and the community.

Joseph Winters is Staff Writer at Grist.org.

Dr Jane Wood is a textile scientist and Lecturer in Textile Technology at the University of Manchester. Her research focuses on sustainable textiles, textile chemistry, colour technology and textile performance, with particular interests in the environmental and human health impacts of chemicals used throughout the textile lifecycle. She leads the Sustainable Textiles and Apparel Research (STAR) group.