Professor Sadhan Kumar Ghosh is the Director General, Sustainable Development and Circular Economy Research Centre at International Society of Waste Management, Air and Water (ISWMAW) and former Dean, Faculty of Engineering and Technology at Jadavpur University. He is Founder and President of the International Society of Waste Management, Air and Water and the Chair of IconSWM-CE and IPLA Global Forum 2023. He is Project Leader for the Global Status of Implementation of Circular Economy (2018-2023). He is the Editor-in-Chief, of the Journal of Solid Waste Technology and Management and is Associate Editor, The Journal of Material Cycles and Waste Management. He is the international expert of UNCRD, Japan, APO, Japan, SACEP Sri Lanka and CPC, Taiwan. He has research collaborations with more than 35 countries. Dr Gev Eduljee is a non-executive director at resource management consultancy Resource Futures. Previously he was Director of External Affairs at SUEZ recycling and recovery UK, and latterly as Interim Director of the Smart Sustainable Plastic Packaging (SSPP) programme at UKRI. He worked in hazardous waste treatment before spending 15 years in environmental consulting. He has published widely on waste management and the circular economy, risk assessment and public health issues. He was a member of Defra’s Advisory Committee on Packaging and the Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances, and of CEN’s Strategic Advisory Body on Environment (SABE).