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Joëlle Vanhamme is Professeur de marketing at EDHEC Business School.

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

Dr Tom Voege is a leading expert in the areas of circular economy, sustainability, and EPR Policy, and a sought after public speaker and author. He currently serves as Director, Public Policy and EU Representative in Brussels for GRS Service. With 20+ years experience, he has held senior roles at the United Nations, at the OECD, and at the International Chamber of Commerce, as well as in consulting and academia. He is a member of the World Economic Forum Expert Network. He holds a PhD and an MSc in Engineering and Environment from the University of Southampton.

As a Producer Responsibility Organisation (PRO) GRS Service GmbH handles all Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) compliance for its clients. It covers various waste streams with its efficient, safe, and comprehensive waste take-back schemes, and its services include the whole back-office task involved in collection, transport, sorting, cooperation with recyclers, and reporting. As the legacy waste battery take-back scheme in Germany, it has consequently built up a wider portfolio of waste streams, and since 2024 it is part of a consortium building up the German textile EPR-scheme ahead of mandatory EU regulation.

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.

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.

Steven Wright is Head of Subject - Fashion Marketing and Photography, University of South Wales.