Michelle Wilson is an experienced senior international development professional with 18 years’ experience in Sub Saharan Africa and Asia. She spent 7 years living and working in Uganda, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, and Sierra Leone and has since supported projects in Sub Saharan Africa, India and Viet Nam. Her passion and experience is developing inclusive value chains across a range of sectors including agriculture, agroforestry and currently, waste management.
She is currently Director of Programmes at WasteAid and oversees WasteAid’s Uganda Circular Textiles Project (funded by the United Kingdom Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office through the Sustainable Manufacturing and Environmental Pollution Programme (SMEP)), which is based on Kampala Uganda. Working with local textile and vocational training partners. the aim of the project is to support the development of alternative value chains for secondary textiles that otherwise end up at landfill.
Matthew Wilson is the Ambassador and Permanent Representative of Barbados to the United Nations (UN), World Trade Organization (WTO), and other international organizations in Geneva. Ambassador Wilson has more than 25 years of experience in trade and development.
He is the Chair of the WTO Working Group on Micro-, Small-, and Medium-Sized Enterprises (MSMEs), Co-Convenor of the WTO Plastics Pollution Dialogue, Coordinator of the Geneva SIDS Ecosystem and coordinator of the ACP in Geneva. Prior to this he was Chief of Special Projects and Chief of Staff at the International Trade Centre (2013–20), Senior Adviser to the WTO Director General (2011–13), and Deputy Aid for Trade Coordinator at WTO.
He has degrees in Psychology and Sociology; International relations; Development Studies; and an MBA-Essentials. He is on the Boards of the International Gender Champions; UNCTAD’s ASYCUDA; and the Forum on Trade, Environment & the SDGs (TESS).
Elisabeth Winkelmeier-Becker has been Parliamentary State Secretary in the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy since November 2019. In this role she is responsible for economic policy, industrial policy as well as digital and innovation policy.
She has also been appointed as the Federal Government's special representative for the implementation of the Raw Materials Industry Transparency Initiative (EITI) in Germany (D-EITI). She also represents the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and Energy on the supervisory board of Deutsche Bahn AG and DEG - Deutsche Investitions- und Entwicklungsgesellschaft mbH.
Paul is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales, and a Fellow of the Geological Society of London.
Paul is a Partner at Forvis Mazars where he focusses on Public Policy & Regulation (both in the UK and globally) and Sustainability Reporting & Assurance. He represents the firm externally at the Forum of Firms and EGIAN, as well as at regulatory and standard setting roundtables. He is the firm’s Global Leader for IFRS Sustainability Disclosure Standards and a member of the global sustainability assurance methodology team.
He has over 30 years of experience in the audit profession, with the first 20 years as a public sector auditor. He is a member of the Consultative Advisory Group of IPSASB and of the Practitioner Advisory Group of the International Non-Profit Accounting Standards project.
Djatmiko Bris Witjaksono is the Director General of International Trade Negotiation at Indonesia’s Ministry of Trade, with a distinguished career in trade diplomacy and policy. He has held key roles as chief or lead negotiator in comprehensive economic partnership agreements with Canada, UAE, EFTA, and Australia, among others. Previously Indonesia’s Ambassador to the WTO, he has directed various departments in the Ministry of Trade including trade advocacy and international trade cooperation analysis. An expert in regional and bilateral trade negotiations, he holds a BA in management from Brawijaya University and a Master’s degree in management and industrial technology from Bandung Institute of Technology.
Achmad Gunawan Witjaksono is the Director of Hazardous and Non-Hazardous Waste Management at the Directorate General of Solid Waste, Hazardous Waste, and Hazardous Substances Management, in the Ministry of Environment and Forestry of the Republic of Indonesia.
He has extensive experience with various environmental issues in hazardous waste and non-hazardous waste management, including as an active member of the Indonesian delegation in the Basel Convention, and has a lot of experience in handling illegal traffic in Indonesia. He also had 3 years of experience in handling climate change issues for resource mobilization and was a member of the Indonesian delegation at UNFCC (2015-2018). Also, he has more than 20 years of experience in pollution control from hazardous waste and air emissions.
Jesper Wohlert has more than 25 years’ experience in development cooperation and NGO management.
He is currently the European partnerships director of Humana People to People, a network of global development and nongovernmental organizations working with local communities to tackle the world’s most pressing social and environmental problems.
Each year, Humana People to People members collectively reach almost 15 million people worldwide, empowering positive change through development cooperation for the world’s most vulnerable and their communities.
Humana Spain is the national member of Humana People to People.
Adam Wolfenden is the Trade Justice Campaigner for the Pacific Network on Globalisation (PANG), a Pacific regional network promoting economic justice and self-determination in the Pacific Islands. Adam has worked in the Pacific for over 10 years monitoring negotiations on numerous regional trade agreements, WTO accessions and working against resource grabbing. Adam has a degree in Economics and has worked with numerous environmental and trade groups in Australia
