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Participants’ Biographies

Baltimore, MD, USA27-28th September, 2017

CCAC Waste Initiative Global Workshop for City Leadership

City Delegates

Ahmed Chirmata

Chief Engineer, Environment Department

Email: [email protected]

Ahmed Chirmata is Agadir’s Chief Engineer. Mr. Chirmata has a diploma inindustrial engineering, and a master’s in energy and environment. Towardsthe beginning of September Mr. Chirmata will support his doctorate thesisin environmental science. Mr. Chirmata has worked in the field of theenvironment and energy for more than 18 years, and also teaches in theUniversity.

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Desmond Appiah

Chief Resilience & Sustainability Advisor to the Mayor of Accra Accra Metropolitan Assembly


Desmond C. Appiah is currently the Chief Resilience & Sustainability Advisor tothe Mayor of the City of Accra at the Accra Metropolitan Assembly. Hecoordinates all city programs aimed at ensuring sustainable city development inareas pertaining to climate change, waste management, road safety, disasterplanning and management, with a charge to integrate management structuresfor enhancing urban resilience. With over 19-years’ experience in sustainabilityrelated projects in manufacturing, academia, forestry, mining, agro-business,and commercial sectors across Europe, USA and Africa, Desmond is thefounder of Sustainable Ghana Limited, an innovative health, safety, quality andenvironmental management firm which has supported several small andmedium scale industries to assess and develop proactive managementapproaches to risks in HSEQ. Desmond holds an MSc (Energy and SustainableDevelopment) from De Montfort University, Leicester UK, an MS (EnvironmentalProtection & Safety Management) from St. Joseph’s University, PhiladelphiaUSA, a BA (Hons) (Geography and Resource Development) from the Universityof Ghana, a PG Certificate (Group Crisis Intervention) Critical Incidence StressManagement and a First Certificate in Food Safety from The Royal Institute ofPublic Health.

Shareaf Al-Shbeal

Manager of Waste Treatment DepartmentGreater Amman Municipality (GAM)


Likes to be addressed as: Shareaf

Shareaf Al-Shbeal works as Manager of the Waste Treatment Dept. in theGreater Amman Municipality (GAM). Shareaf supervises waste transfer stationsin Amman, receiving waste from all districts of Amman, then transferring to theGhabawi waste landfill. From 2012-2016 he worked as a consultant for fleetmanagement in GAM. From 2011-2012 he worked as fleet manager in GAM.From 2009-2011 he worked as production manager in GAM.

Suthisa Pornpermpoon

Department of Environment, Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA)


Mrs. Suthisa Pornpermpoon is the director of solid waste, hazardouswaste, and nightsoil management division, Department of Environment,Bangkok Metropolitan Administration. Mrs. Pornpermpoon has morethan 15 years of experience in solid waste management including wasteminimization, 3Rs, waste collection management, waste disposal andSWM's climate change plan in Bangkok.

Sarfaraz Khan

Joint Commissioner , BBMP


Likes to be addressed as: Sarfaraz

Working as joint commissioner , Mr. Sarfaraz takes care of wastemanagement, health , solid waste processing and other civic related issues.Mr. Sarfaraz has worked as the municipal commissioner and urbandevelopment commissioner in other Indian cities as well.

Andrea Celeste Paiz

Technical Adviser of Treatment and New Technology Direction


Andrea Celeste Paiz graduated in Biological Sciences and later gaineda Master's degree in Environmental Engineering. For over two years,Mrs. Paiz has been working in Buenos Aires Government, exclusivelydedicated to issues related to MSW Management. Andrea really likesher work since it directly helps to reduce the human impact on theenvironment and improve the quality of life for all citizens.

Sudhakar Subramaniyan

Executive Engineer, Greater Chennai Corporation


Likes to be addressed as: S.Sudhakar

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S. Sudhakar, M.E., M.I.E., F.I.V., F.I.I.TArb., M.IRC., is working as an ExecutiveEngineer in Greater Chennai Corporation, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India. Mr.Sudhakar graduated in Civil Engineering from the University of Madras andholds a post graduation in Construction Engineering and Management fromCollege of Engineering, Anna University, Chennai. He has wide experience ofabout 29 years in the field of construction industry and has executedconstruction of major Petrochemical Industrial structures, bridges and roads.Mr. Sudhakar has work experience in storm water drain and solid wastemanagement of Chennai City. He is Fellow of Institution of Valuers, Institutionof Indian Technical Arbitrators and Member in Institution of Engineers andIndian Road Congress and has attended various workshops and training inIndia, China, Singapore and Hong Kong.

Serigne Léye Thioune

Director of Technical Services


Serigne Léye Thioune is a Civil engineer by training and has a postgraduate diploma in municipal engineering management and inmaintenance and management of municipal facilities. He is responsible ofplanning, managing and carrying out of urban projects in road; publicbuilding; public light; drainage; environmental and solid waste; urbanmobility (traffic lights).

Shedrack Maximilian

Solid Waste & Environment Management


Likes to be addressed as: Shedrack

Shedrack Maximilian graduated with a Bachelor of Environmental HealthScience in 2007 at University Of Dar Es Salaam, Muhimbili Campus inTanzania. He worked with the Ministry of Health in Tanzania in 2008 as anintern at Rukwa region in several issues regarding environmental health. Atthe end of 2008 he was employed by the government of Tanzania in a localdistrict 60 KM from Dar Es Salaam as the Environmental Health officer wherehe was dealing with solid waste and sanitation issues and control ofcommunicable diseases . He worked under different managerial positions insolid and sanitation issues. Currently he is working as the Head ofDepartment of Solid Waste and Environmental at Dar Es Salaam City lookingon solid waste infrastructure, operation treatment, recyclingand disposal.

Pradeep Khandelwal

Chief Engineer, Solid Waste East Delhi Municipal Corporation


Mr. Khandelwal, has over 32 years of professional experience. He graduated inCivil Engineering from REC Kurukshetra and Environmental Eng. & Science fromIIT Delhi in 2003. He has worked in fields like planning, monitoring, execution andmanagement of projects in different sectors. He has attended technical seminarson the transport sector, earthquakes, ready mix concrete, drainage, softwaretechnology, landfilling. He has presented papers on traffic management for energysavings and on Green Building and tall structures. He has been involved inprojects associated with development and management of urban facilities. TheMunicipal Corporation of Delhi has nominated him for technical visits to Japan,Denmark, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand for development of urban facilities,Climate Change and Solid Waste Management. He is also a life member of variousinstitutions like IRC, IBC, Earthquake society of India, and Association of StructuralEng.

Loganathan Moodley

Senior Manager: EngineeringeThekwini Municipality - Cleansing & Solid

Waste


Likes to be addressed as: Logan

Logan Moodley is the Senior Engineering Manager for the eThekwini Municipality andCity of Durban, South Africa, heading up the Plant & Engineering Division of theDepartment of Cleansing and Solid Waste unit. Logan is responsible for the overalldevelopment of landfill sites, disposal operations and various special projectsthroughout the Durban Municipal region of eThekwini. Logan heads up the technicalteam that comprises the specialist landfill gas-to-electricity CDM projects, treatmentof landfill leachate, landfill operations, landfill design, landfill construction, closure,rehabilitation and more recently waste transfer stations. He is also responsible forstrategic planning of waste management for the City of Durban and is activelyinvolved with local waste related research and development studies. His most recentworks are focused on climate change mitigation focusing on landfill gas opportunitiesas a transportation fuel and integrated waste management planning for Durban. Hehas further support on various specialist waste management training throughsupporting local and international programmes. Logan is a Professional Civil Engineerand has a Masters of Science in Engineering degree from the University of Kwazulu-Natal. He has to date authored and co-authored around12 technical papers.

Makhosazane Jabulile Baker

Director Waste Management and RegulationEnvironment and Infrastructure Services


Liked to known as: Khosi

Makhosazane Baker is the Director of Waste Management and Regulation inthe City of Johannesburg. Her duties include driving the City’s wastemanagement policies, strategies, planning and regulation of wastemanagement activities in the City of Johannesburg. The Unit also undertakesresearch, information management and trend analysis to inform policydevelopment. She is also responsible for development of strategic projects totest policy implementation and to inform new policy direction. Prior to joiningthe City of Johannesburg, Ms. Baker worked at the National Department ofEnvironmental Affairs (South Africa) where she gained experience in wastemanagement policy and regulation through her involvement in national policyand legislation development. Her 20 year career in Environmentalmanagement started at a provincial government where she was monitoringand enforcingcompliance to waste management legislation.

Segun Adeniji

General ManagerLagos Waste Management Authority


Likes to be addressed as: Segun

Segun Adeniji holds a degree in History from University of Lagos and a Mastersin Public Administration from Lagos State University. He started his career inLagos State Waste Disposal Board, now Lagos Waste Management Authority(LAWMA), as administrative officer and rose to the post of Assistant ChiefAdministrative officer before his deployment to mainstream of civil service in1999. He has served in different capacities as Special Adviser to the Governoron Education, Lagos State Sport Council, Office of Transformation. He hasworked as Assistant Director Ministry of Youths, Sports and Social Development,Deputy Director Ministry of Rural development and Director Ministry of PhysicalPlanning And Urban Development. He won the Best Officer Award (seniorcategory) while in Ministry of Rural Development. In 2015 he was deployed backto LAWMA as the Assistant General Manager Client Services. In June 2016 hebecame the General Manager. Under his management LAWMA is graduallytransiting into a regulatory body with a major concern of setting standard forbest practices in the waste manage sector. He is a member the Cleaner LagosInitiative Committee reforming the waste management sector of the state.

Oluwatoyin Omolara AdenijiLagos Waste Management Authority

Ms. Oluwatoyin holds a degree in Education (Hons) Home Economics Educationand a Master in Clothing and Textile. She started her career in Lagos WasteManagement Authority (LAWMA) in 1987 as clerical officer. She later joinedLagos State Primary Education board in 2008 as a teacher. She was secondedto the Ministry of Women Affairs and Poverty Alleviation as instructor in skillacquisition. She is also a part time lecturer (Textile & Design) in Yaba College ofTechnology, Lagos and University of Lagos. While working in LAWMA, Mrs.Oluwatoyin developed an avid interest in waste management, particularlyrecycling.

As part of her curriculum in skill acquisition, textile and design, she introduced acourse content on Textile Recycling an Eco friendly option to teach students theenvironmental impact associated with production, use and of life managementof textile and also prevention of textile waste. She is married with children.

Enrique Cruz

Environmental Management / Sub-Manager, Lima


Likes to be addressed as: Enrique

Enrique is an Environmental Engineer with complete studies of Master inEnvironmental Management, registered at the Engineers School in Peru(chartered engineer), trilingual (Spanish / English / French), with thirteenyears of successful working experience managing, analyzing, auditing,evaluating and supervising projects such as: Environmental ImpactAssessment, Natural Resources Management, Solid Wastes Management,Monitoring (air, water, noise, soil), both in public and private activities(Mining, Energy, Construction) regarding company´s policies and nationaland international standards, considering safety and social responsibility.

Alexander Vinck Posada

Cleanliness Services Sanitary Engineer


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Alexander is a Sanitary Engineer with a specialization in Geographic InformationSystems. He works with Empresas Varias as a logistic specialist.

Roger Peniche Sala

Senior Advisor on Climate Change and Energy


Since January of 2016, Roger is the Principal Advisor on Climate Change andEnergy in the municipality of Naucalpan, Mexico. From this position hecoordinates the implementation of the Project “Management and treatment oforganic waste with energy recovery”. In addition, he is coordinating theimplementation of the Municipal Program of Climate Change 2013-2023.Previously he worked as Director General of Social Communication at the FederalMinistry of Health, and during 7 years he coordinated the agenda of bilateral,triangular and regional cooperation with North America and Mesoamerica in theMinistry of Environment and Natural Resources of Mexico.

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Boon Poh Phee

Penang State Minister


Hon. Mr Phee Boon Poh is a Butterworth Borned Businessman managing PheeFamily Group of Companies. First elected as State Legislative in 1990, and waselected the State Opposition Leader in 2004. In 2008, Phee was appointed asState Minister after the change of State Government. He is the Chairman of theSocial Welfare, Health & Caring Society Committee. In 2009, Phee took overthe Environment, Forestry, Landscape & Wildlife, and Drug Abuse Committee inaddition to his portfolios. Penang joined as Member of CommonwealthParliamentary Association Climate Change Networking for Southeast AsiaMember of Climate Alliance. He is a member of Zero Waste Society, ISWA, IPLA- International Partnership of Local Authorities UEAMA-Urban EnvironmentAccord Member Alliance Penang As A Signatory To: Gwangju Initiative at theISWA World Congress 2011 in Korea Message To G20 Cannes Summit GwangjuCities Declaration Commitments By Cities to Kyoto Protocol Principles ZeroWastes For Green Economy - Role of Local Authorities in Daegu, Korea Onwardand Forward CLEANER and GREENER PENANG Program to be implementedfor the Year 2012 - Save Energy & Water Towards The Reduction of CarbonFootprint, Zero Disharge & Zero Waste Policy Towards Renewal Energy andSustainable Resources.

Paloma Caruso

Environment Department, Waste ManagerEmail: [email protected] l

Likes to be addressed as: Paloma

Paloma is an environmental engineer, with an Environmental Education postdegree. She has more than 7 years of experience working in the private and publicsector. Currently Paloma is working for the Municipality of Puerto Varas in chargeof climate change, recycling,environmental education.

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Rajendra Jagtap

Chief Executive Officer, Pune Smart City Development Corporation

Email: [email protected]; [email protected]

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Rajendra Jagtap is the executive and administrative head of Pune SmartCity Development Corporation Ltd. Service provision involves provisionof infrastructure, public health, slum redevelopment, solid wastemanagement, primary education and basic services to urban poor. Whileenvironmental balance including implementation of large scale projectsfunded by the Government of India like river front development, ecorestoration of lakes, basic services of urban poor, sewage treatmentplants and greening hills and recyclingof waste.

Jacinto Guevara

Environmental Management SpecialistEnvironmental Protection and Waste Management Department, Quezon City


Likes to be addressed as: Jack

Jack is a graduate of Entrepreneurial Management at Quezon CityPolytechnic University with masters in Environmental Management. Presently,he is working as Environmental Management Specialist under theEnvironmental Protection and Waste Management Department of theQuezon City Government. He is the Assistant Chief of the Pollution ControlDivision of this Department whose function is to oversee the environmentalcompliance of the industries and business establishments in Quezon City interms of Solid Waste Management, Water Quality Management and AirQuality Management.

Jenny Portilla

Environmental engineeringDepartment of Environmental Policy and Planning


Likes to be addressed as: Jenny

Jenny Portilla is an Environmental Engineer and has a master degree inIntegrated management (environmental, quality and prevention). She has 5years of experience working in the area of solid waste, especially as a publicemployee. Currently she works in the Solid Waste department of theEnvironment Secretariat of the Municipality of the Metropolitan District of theMunicipality of Quito.

José Henrique Penido Monteiro

Chair Environmental Sustainability Office


Liked to known as: Penido

José Henrique Penido Monteiro graduated in Mechanical Engineering at theCatholic University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. At present he is the Chair of theEnvironmental Sustainability Office of COMLURB, the municipal company in chargeof waste management in the city of Rio de Janeiro; President of the Institute forDissemination of Information on Environment and Sanitation - Web-Resol,responsible for a web site called “Solid Waste”. He has been President of COMLURBand Undersecretary of the Environment Secretariat of the State of Rio de Janeiro. Hehas worked as consultant to many national and multilateral organisms andinstitutions as BID, IMDB, OPAS, GIZ and IBAM. Mr. Penido Monteiro was namedmember of the Environmental Consulting Board of ELETROBRÁS – CENTRAISELÉTRICAS BRASILEIRAS S.A. in 1990, member of the B Group – Urban WasteEnergy Generation of the World Energy Council in 1993 and assigned by the FederalGovernment of Brazil as a member of the waste management subcommittee of GMI.Mr. Penido Monteiro has published essays and manuals, and has conducted studieson technical and institutional issues related to sanitation, particularly in the field ofbiogas energy recovery, compost production and solid waste management. Mr.Penido Monteiro also teaches an MBA course on Solid Waste Management at theFederal University of Rio de Janeiro since 2007.

Marcia Metran

Assessor of Planning and Development Director, Sao Paulo


Likes to be addressed as: Marcia

Marcia holds a Bachelor of Business Administration, post graduated in Marketing(1992), Business Administration (2002) and is currently finishing a post-graduationin Media, Politics and Society. Marcia worked 25 years in an agro and seedsmultinational company where she gained experiences in the Advertisement &Promotion, Internal Communications & Change Management areas, and in thelast years in Strategic Planning area. After 2013, Marcia worked as a consultant inCultural Changes and Marketing. Since last February, Marcia has been working asan Assessor of Planning and Development Directory of AMLURB - Urban CleaningAuthority of São Paulo City to set and support the implementation of the 4 YearPlan for waste in São Paulo City focusing in organics and recycled wastes, as wellas reverse logistics.

Partners

Sandra M. Mazo-nix

Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Initiative Coordinator, Climate and Clean Air Coalition (CCAC)


Sandra Mazo-Nix has a B.S. in Engineering Management from the National Universityof Colombia, and an M.S. in Environmental Science and Policy from George MasonUniversity. As part of her graduating thesis for her bachelor degree, Ms. Mazo-Nixconducted a research project to evaluate the feasibility of a recycling program at abottling plant in Medellín, Colombia. Ms. Mazo-Nix joined Climate and Clean AirCoalition (CCAC) as the Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) Initiative Coordinator inJanuary 2016. Before that, Ms. Mazo-Nix worked for over eight years at SCSEngineers, an engineering consulting firm in the United States. Ms. Mazo-Nix’sproject activities at SCS Engineers included research on solid waste managementpractices, landfill gas generation and recovery modeling and reporting, landfill gasutilization cost analyses and electricity market research for the United StatesEnvironmental Protection Agency (U.S. EPA) Landfill Methane Outreach Program,CCAC, the Global Methane Initiative, the World Bank, among others. Ms. Mazo-Nixwas also involved in the development and preparation of solid waste assessmentstudies, landfill gas pre-feasibility and due diligence reports for greenhouse gasemissions mitigation projects in El Salvador, Argentina, Brazil, Mexico, Vietnam andColombia. The Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA) has certified heras RecyclingSystems Manager and Composting Programs Manager.

Thomas A. Frankiewicz

United States Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA)

Lead, International Biogas Programs


Tom provides technical expertise to promote use of landfill gas for energyproduction in the United States, and methane mitigation in the waste sectorinternationally through the Global Methane Initiative and in mega-cities through theClimate and Clean Air Coalition.

Previously at EPA, he worked with the combined heat and power (CHP) industry,energy end-users and governmental organizations to encourage deployment ofnatural gas and biomass/biogas-fired distributed generation and CHP projects.

Before joining EPA, Tom spent over ten years in the field of air quality working forstate and regional organizations, including the Ozone Transport Commission andIndiana Department of Environmental Management.

He has a Bachelor of Science in Public Affairs and Environmental Management fromIndiana University, School of Public and Environmental Affairs, and a Masters ofBusiness Administration from George Washington University.

Gary CrawfordISWA, Lead Partner

Gary Crawford is employed by Veolia as vice president of international affairs. Heis based in Veolia’s corporate headquarters in Paris, France. He has more than 25years of experience in the waste industry and has held various operational,technical and managerial positions. He is responsible for establishing activepartnerships with key global stakeholders and institutions to support thecompany’s current activities and developing business. He is focused on emerginggrowth markets associated with cross-cutting subjects, such as the circulareconomy, climate change and smart and sustainable cities. He also is responsiblefor identifying new business models for developing economies that deliversustainable development benefits and business value.

Previously, he was the vice president of sustainable development for VeoliaEnvironmental Services (VES). He led an international team that was responsiblefor the development and implementation of the corporate health, safety, andenvironmental policies, programmes and initiatives. His team also providedsupport and expertise to VES’s world-wide business units on carbon managementand the execution of sustainable development projects. Mr. Crawford is a memberof the Board of the International Solid Waste Association (ISWA) and is chair of theISWA Working Group on climate change and waste management. RepresentingISWA, he is a member of the Steering Group and Lead Partner of the Climate andClean Air Coalition (CCAC) Municipal Solid Waste Initiative. Mr. Crawford receiveda Bachelor’s degree in geology from Cook College, Rutgers University, and aMaster’s degree in engineeringgeology from Drexel University in the U.S.

Experts

Dr. Sahadat Hossain

Professor of Civil Engineering Department and Director of Solid Waste Institute for

Sustainability (SWIS), University of Texas at Arlington (UTA)


Dr. Sahadat Hossain is a Professor of Civil Engineering Department and Director ofSolid Waste Institute for Sustainability (SWIS) at the University of Texas at Arlington(UTA). Dr. Hossain has completed his B.S. degree in Civil Engineering from theIndian Institute of Technology (IIT), Bombay, India, Master of Engineering inGeotechnical Engineering from Asian Institute of Technology (AIT), Bangkok,Thailand, and Ph.D. from North Carolina State University (NCSU) at Raleigh, NC,USA.

Dr. Hossain’s research and scholarship are well recognized nationally andinternationally. He is an expert in sustainable waste management. He is working ondifferent aspects of sustainable waste management including bioreactor landfillengineering design and operational practices for last 20 years. At present Dr.Hossain is working on research, development and implementation of innovativesolutions for sustainable waste management and to provide support for wastemanagement in USA and developing countries. The major objective of his research isto develop and test innovative, cost-effective and sustainable technologies forsustainable solid waste management systems, including bioreactor landfilltechnology, landfill to gas to energy, utilization of waste materials for sustainable andreusable construction materials, and landfill mining.

Joanna D. Underwood

Founder and Chair, Energy Vision


Joanna Underwood, one of the pioneers of this country's environmental movement,has launched and run two national environmental research organizations. The first,in l973, was INFORM, which documented the impacts of business practices on theenvironment and pubic health. Its research, published in more than 100 reports,influenced US public policy significantly by introducing the importance of strategieseliminating pollution and resource destruction at their source. This inspired thecountry’s first pollution prevention law (l990) and won for INFORM the USEnvironmental Protection Agency’s highest leadership award. In 2007

Underwood launched Energy Vision, concentrating on ways to make the most rapidtransition to the renewable energy sources and carbon - free fuels needed for asustainable future. In comparing all available fuel options, EV found one of the mostpromising to be the first commercially viable sustainable fuel – a form of renewablenatural gas (RNG) made from organic wastes – clean, virtually carbon-free (and insome cases net carbon negative).

EV organized the first RNG workshop with the US Department of Energy for itsClean Cities affiliates in 2010, and has since then sponsored day-long “Power ofWaste” Workshops in ten regions of the country. EV has published severalgroundbreaking reports on the waste-to-fuel strategy including the first step by stepguide for communities on how to explore beneficial uses of their organic wastes.Underwood was invited in 2015 by the US EPA to introduce this strategy intoTunisia and will host a workshop in Johannesburg South Africa later this year.

Ms. Underwood has spoken widely on sustainability issues. She has served on manyboards ranging from the Rocky Mountain Institute to the New York State EnergyResearch and Development Authority and the President’s Council on SustainableDevelopment under the Clinton Administration. Among awards that she hasreceived was being named one of the 100 top global sustainability leaders by EarthTimes in 2000 and 2002 and a lifetime achievement award in 2015 for her role inenergy innovation from the Natural Gas Vehicle Association.

Ms. Underwood received her BA from Bryn Mawr College in 1962 and an honoraryPhD in Science from Wheaton College in 1992.

James Alexander

Programme Director, City Finance FacilityC40 Cities Climate Leadership Group


James Alexander is the City Finance Programme Director & Head of the C40Cities Finance Facility. Prior to joining C40, James served as Senior PolicyManager and Head of the London office for the Scottish Council forDevelopment and Industry, where he advised the Scottish Government andother key stakeholders on the actions and priorities needed to createsustainable economic prosperity for Scotland. James worked with theleaders of Scotland’s cities to develop the Cities Strategy for Scotland andsetup and led a new Scottish Cities Alliance focused on driving investment,economic growth and job creation in Scotland’s cities. James has also ledinternational trade missions to the Middle East; and has considerableexperience in the skills sector, including two years as President of theNational Union of Students in Scotland. James has a degree in Mathematicsfrom Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

Dr. Seema Awasthi

Director, ICUC Consultants Pvt. Ltd., Delhi, India


Dr. Seema Awasthi, a Doctorate in Environmental Engineering, has more than twentyyears of experience in the waste management sector in the urban environment ofdeveloping economies including India, Nepal, Maldives and Mexico. She has workedas a SWM/ PPP expert in a number of waste management projects across more than200 ULBs of India with cumulative volume of more than 60,000 tons/day. She alsoworked as a core team member in the SWM projects in the countries of Maldives,Mexico, Singapore and Nepal. As a fellow of an NGO, LEAD India, she got theopportunity to have worked at grass-root level with the local communities toimplement environmentally sustainable projects in the eco-sensitive regions ofHimalaya region. She has published and presented about 14 papers and case studiesin various International & National Conferences on the diversified areas of wastemanagement, climate change and air pollution.

Dr. Luis Felipe Dornfeld Colturato

Engineering Department / Director, Methanum


Likes to be addressed as: Dr. Colturato

Dr. Colturato is an Environmental Engineer, Master in Environmental Technology andDoctor in Sanitation, and has been working for 15 years on the subject of planning,management and treatment of municipal, agricultural and industrial waste andwastewater, generation and use of biogas. He carried out technical visits to morethan 200 waste treatment facilities in Latin America, Europe and Asia and got robustexperience in operation of MBT Plants for MSW treatment in Spain. He conductsconsulting, training and support to decision-making related to waste managementand treatment infrastructure, anaerobic digestion and biogas production. He alsoparticipated actively in the formulation of laws and regulations on the subject andhas developed national technology for organic waste valorization and biogas usage.Dr. Luis Felipe has published and co-authored several books and coordinated theimplementation of important biogas projects in Latin America, one of them awardedby the City Solutions Platform in 2016. Currently he is developing strategic wasteprojects in Brazil, Latin America and the Caribbean.

Dr. Sarika Jain

Researcher and Policy Manager, World Biogas Association


As a Research and Policy Manager for the World Biogas Association, Dr. Jain focuseson the growth potential and application of Anaerobic Digestion and Biogastechnologies in the emerging, frontier and developed markets. She has beenworking on the contribution of anaerobic digestion towards mitigating climatechange and achieving United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals.

Dr Jain has a Master's degree in Environmental Engineering from the University ofMichigan and doctoral degree from the University of Southampton. Her doctoralthesis evaluated the emissions impact and economic feasibility of anaerobicdigestion. With a diverse breadth of experience in environmental research andconsultancy, Sarika has lived and worked in India, USA, the UK and Singapore.

C40 Team

Ricardo is the Head of Water and Waste Initiative for the C40 CitiesClimate Leadership Group, responsible for developing andimplementing the global strategy on Urban Water and SustainableMaterials Management responding to C40 member cities’ interestsand priorities in areas such as Integrated Water and WasteManagement, Resource Efficiency, Infrastructure planning, Wasteutilization and water treatment, Improved disposal, andaccelerating the transition towards Water-wise, Zero Waste citiesand the Circular Economy.

Ricardo Cepeda-MárquezHead of the Solid Waste Initiative

Amrita Sinha KatariaNetwork Manager, Solid Waste

Amrita Sinha Kataria manages the Solid Waste Network at C40.In this position, she assists cities and collaborates with networksof global cities to deliver their strategies for tackling wastemanagement issues. Before joining C40, Amrita worked forTeam London Ambassadors, a part of the Mayor of London’sOlympic and Paralympic programme for London 2012. Prior tothis role, she worked as a Waste Prevention Adviser withLambeth Council, London.

She also worked on a project with the Greater London Authority to research provision ofenvironmental management support to SMEs in London. Amrita formerly worked in NewDelhi, India as a Program Analyst on the Clinton Climate Initiative Waste and Solar Team. Shehas also worked for Coca-Cola, India to develop their rainwater-harvesting manual for bottlingplants. Amrita holds a M.Sc. in Environment, with specialisation in Water and Waste ResourcesManagement from The Energy and Resources Institute (TERI) in New Delhi, India, where shereceived DAAD (The German Academic Exchange Service) scholarship to Freie Universitat,Berlin. She holds a B.Sc. in Environmental Science from University of Delhi, India. Currently,she is an Associate Member of IEMA (Institute of Environmental Management and Assessment)and University of Bath, UK.

Ricardo also co-chairs the Municipal Solid Waste Initiative of the Climate and Clean Air Coalition, a global initiative focused on reducing Short Lived Climate Pollutants and the near-term impacts of global warming.

Ricardo has a Bachelor's degree on Environmental Engineering from the Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana (UAM) in Mexico and a Master's on Hydraulic Engineering from the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). Ricardo is a bicycle commuter and passionate road cyclist.

Kathrin ZellerNetwork Manager, Waste to Resources

Kathrin Zeller serves as a Network Manager for the Waste toResources Network at C40, aiming for the acceleration of thetransition from solid waste management towards sustainablematerials management. In her most recent experience inGermany she worked at a municipal PPP for waste treatmentin the city of Cologne within their international projects.

Prior to that, she served as a project coordinator for topicsof climate, environment and energy at the KonradAdenauer Foundation in Rio de Janeiro. One of herprojects was to help establish the Brazilian city networkCB27. Kathrin holds a master degree from the University ofCologne/ Germany in Regional Sciences of LatinaAmerica with a focus on theory of economic and socialpolicy, and a MBA of the Leuphana University Lüneburg/Germany in Sustainability Management. Kathrin is based inthe office in Rio de Janeiro and speaks German, Englishand Portuguese.

James AlexanderProgramme Director, City Finance

James Alexander is the City Finance Programme Director &Head of the C40 Cities Finance Facility. Prior to joining C40,James served as Senior Policy Manager and Head of theLondon office for the Scottish Council for Development andIndustry, where he advised the Scottish Government and otherkey stakeholders on the actions and priorities needed to createsustainable economic prosperity for Scotland.

James worked with the leaders of Scotland’s cities to develop the Cities Strategy forScotland and setup and led a new Scottish Cities Alliance focused on driving investment,economic growth and job creation in Scotland’s cities. James has also led international trademissions to the Middle East; and has considerable experience in the skills sector, includingtwo years as President of the National Union of Students in Scotland. James has a degree inMathematics from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.

Joshua GardnerProgramme Manager, Global Initiatives

Josh is the Programme Manager of Global Initiatives at C40, supporting the delivery of C40’sthematic initiatives and networks and strategic engagement with other C40 teams. Beforejoining C40, Josh worked as a sustainability consultant specializing in climate change inMelbourne, Australia. Most recently, he served as Project Coordinator for climate scienceand policy institute Climate Analytics to support the delivery of UNDP and ClimateVulnerable Forum’s Low Carbon Monitor report. He was a Senior Consultant with Ernst &Young in the Climate Change and Sustainability team, and in this role was secondedto City of Melbourne as part of Rockefeller Foundation’s 100 Resilient Cities initiative. Hisconsulting roles have seen Josh work with a diverse range of clients in government, not forprofit and the private sector to assist them across a breadth of sustainability issues, often withan emissions reduction lens. Josh graduated from the University of Melbourne with aBachelor of Chemical Engineering and Bachelor of Arts, majoring in politics.

Other Partners

Joe DonahueAssociate, Division of Health and EnvironmentAbt Associates

Joe Donahue is an environmental policy analyst at Abt Associates. He provides support onissues related to climate change mitigation for a range of U.S. government agencies,charitable foundations, and institutions. Mr. Donahue has supported the US EPA in its role asa lead partner in the Climate and Clean Air Coalition Municipal Solid Waste Initiative since2013. On EPA’s behalf, Mr. Donahue coordinates the development of tools, resources, andoutreach materials for the Waste Initiative. He also supports EPA’s technical assistance andcapacity building activities in several countries and regions, including India, Mexico, andSoutheastern Europe. Mr. Donahue has a Master’s degree in Environmental Policy fromGeorgetown University.

Nimmi DamodaranVice PresidentAbt Associates

Michelle GraffAnalyst, Division of Health and EnvironmentAbt Associates

Gabriela Otero Technical Coordinator, ABRELPE

Gabriela Otero is Geographer and Master of Science, and has ten years of experience inenvironmental consultancy and international cooperation projects. Since August 2013 is theTechnical Coordinator of ABRELPE, responsible for conducting all publications of theAssociation, including the Panorama of Solid Waste in Brazil, as well as the manager ofCCAC Waste Initiative projects for São Paulo and Curitiba.

Brent L. DielemanSCS Engineers

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