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As the Head of Environment, Energy, and Regional Statistics Department at the Agency for Statistics of Bosnia and Herzegovina (BiH), Ms. Korajčević  is responsible for technical statistical research, including the continuous monitoring and application methodological standards, as well as monitoring the practical application of legislation. 

Ms. Korajčević has been actively involved in capacity development and governance, including with the development of the Environmental Protection Strategy 2030+ which provides a framework for long-term planning and harmonized environmental practices and measures throughout BiH.

Furthermore, Ms. Korajčević has played a crucial role in aligning BiH's legal and institutional frameworks with the EU environmental laws and procedures. As well as drafting legislative acts and providing training for the implementation of the Stockholm Convention in BiH.

Additionally, Ms. Korajčević is a member of several professional bodies, including the UNECE JTF of Environmental statistics and indicators, the Working Group on Environmental Monitoring and Assessment (WGEMA), and the Inter-Agency and Expert Group (IAEG) on Disaster-related Statistics. Ms. Korajčević is also the BiH National Focal Point for the Sustainable Development Goal indicators under United Nations Environment Custodianship and has authored several publications, including on e-waste. 

Tomas Marques is Regional Sub-programme Coordinator (for Science-Policy and for Air Quality) at UNEP’s Europe Office where he works on environmental assessment processes, on the implementation of Shared Environmental Information System (SEIS) principles of open access to data, and on assessment and capacity-building activities related to environmental statistics and the SDGs, air pollution and air quality monitoring and management. Based in Geneva, Switzerland, the main geographical foci of his current work at country level include Central Asian and Western Balkan countries but he is also involved in several regional-level processes related to environmental monitoring and data, environmental statistics and assessments, and air pollution. Before joining UNEP’s Europe Office he worked as Economic Affairs Officer in the Secretariat of the UNEP-hosted International Resource Panel (IRP) where he was responsible for coordinating IRP assessment work streams on sustainable management of metal resources, material flow analysis, integrated scenario analysis, and the circular economy. He also worked on UNEP programmes related to cleaner and safer production, resource efficiency and sustainable consumption and production (SCP), industrial risk reduction and emergency preparedness. An industrial engineer by training, before joining UNEP in 2007 Tomas worked for 8 years in several environmental impact assessment studies, environmental audits and other environmental-related projects in a variety of sectors including in the construction sector, transport sector (airport, road, light railway and high-speed railway infrastructure projects), and industry.

Linah Ngumba works for the Kenya National Bureau of Statistics, which is the country's National Statistics Office (NSO). She is in charge of the ICT statistics section, which is in charge of conducting nationwide ICT-related studies and analyses in the country. She pioneered the ICT statistics chapter in the Economic Survey report, ICT enterprise and public institution surveys, and an ICT module in the 2019 Population Census. Ms Linah is the current Chair of the International Telecommunication Union's Expert Group on ICT Household Indicators (ITU). She has a master's degree in communications management, a master's degree in economics, and a bachelor's degree in economics and statistics.

Vanessa Forti, Associate Programme Officer at UNITAR-SCYCLE, is an environmental engineer graduated cum laude from Universita’ degli Studi di Bologna. She has a strong experience in the field of sustainability with more than four years of experience in waste quantification at global level, waste management, resource efficiency and assessing environmental impacts associated to hazardous chemicals. Vanessa is the author of various publications that focus on quantifying e-waste amounts and environmental impacts, such as the recently published 2020 edition of the Global E-waste Monitor 2020 (Forti et al. 2020) and the globally recognized E-waste Statistics Guidelines on classification, reporting and indicators (Forti et al. 2018).

Vanessa has an in-depth expertise in developing methodologies, surveying, modelling, and reporting on waste statistics (e-waste, mercury, and battery waste). She is also a member of the Global E-waste Statistics Partnership, which works to help countries produce e-waste statistics and to build a global e-waste database for tracking developments over time. She has co-developed e-waste guidelines on classification, reporting and indicators with the aim to support governments in compiling e-waste data using an internationally harmonized framework. She is highly skilled in organizing, developing, and conducting capacity-building workshops on e-waste statistics, legislations and e-waste management addressed to governmental bodies and policy makers. In this context, Vanessa has gained experience in consulting with experts and stakeholders and in consensus building with facilitating dialogue and knowledge sharing between policy makers and non-governmental organizations and in building institutional capacity on e-waste.

She has conducted numerous projects for various European Institutions, she has co-developed EEE Placed on Market and WEEE Generated tools and manuals that are used globally. She is currently managing a four-year service contract for DG Environment to support the Commission with the "Update and maintenance of the waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE) calculation electronic" (Reference: No 07.0201/2019/811039/SER/ENV.B.3).

Sarah Njau is the sustainability and impact business manager at Vintz Plastics Limited. She has previously worked as the Business Development Officer WEEE Centre and adjunct lecturer at Moi university, Nairobi campus teaching research methods and social development related courses such as; Development and governance, development concepts as well as ethics and social responsibility. She holds a bachelors of arts in social sciences from Makerere University, Kampala Uganda and a masters of sciences in development studies from Moi University Kenya. She has been engaged extensively in the development of various waste management policies in Kenya and the greater EAC [Sustainable waste management act and policy, National E-waste Strategy (Kenya) and the Regional E-waste Management strategy 2022-2027]. She is a member of the EACO working group 7 (green ICTs and E-Waste Management), Kenya’s national e-waste steering committee as well as the EEE PRO formulation secretariat

He is a University of Nairobi trained Economist (Master of Arts in Economics) and is in charge of Consumer Protection and Customer Service at Kenya’s ICT Regulator, the Communications Authority of Kenya (CA). He has worked at CA for 17 years. Previously, he worked at Kenya’s Competition Regulator, now the Competition Authority of Kenya for over 10 years. 

Mr. Ooro is the current Chairperson of East African Communications Organisation’s (EACO) Working Group 07 on E-waste Management and Green ICTs, having served for 10 years. He is also a member of the  International Telecommunication Union (ITU) Study Group 12 that deals with  Performance, Quality of Service and Quality of Experience.

He has supervised successful development of consumer protection and customer service instruments as well as surveys in competition, consumer, customer satisfaction and service delivery issues for the organizations he has worked for.