Managing director of EXPRA – Extended Producer Responsibility Alliance – Inspiring Packaging Recycling, a new alliance of
packaging recovery organisations currently from more than 17 countries. He is vice-chairperson of the legal working group of ISWA and chairperson of the ISWA EU Group; he was also an expert of the ISO global standardisation project SIS/TK 165/AG 10 Packaging and Environment that has developed between 2009 and 2012 global standards on packaging optimisation, recycling, reuse and energy recovery.

Nancy Strand works as senior advisor in the Norwegian national member, Avfall Norge, the Norwegian waste management and recycling association. She recently stepped down after seven years as CEO, and before that she worked as general manager for LOOP, a foundation that fosters better recycling habits. In 1990 she founded one of Norway’s first environmental consultancies, and has worked to coordinate business concerns with environmental efforts throughout her career. She holds a degree in Business Administration from the Norwegian Business School, and Environmental Resource Management from the University of Southeast Norway.

In 2020 she was elected as ISWA’s Treasurer.

Vanya Veras is a multinational, multicultural environmental economist of Greek and English parentage with over 20 years’ experience in waste management legislation, practices and systems. She has been Secretary General of Municipal Waste Europe since January 2012; the association represents municipalities and public responsibility for waste.
In 2007, after eleven years in Brussels working on waste and environmental policy, Vanya joined Coca‐Cola Hellenic in Greece as Environmental Affairs Manager. She then worked for Mayor of Piraeus for two years as special advisor on waste management, leaving this post and Greece to represent municipalities in waste management with Municipal Waste Europe aisbl in 2012.
With the benefit of this combined experience of the waste industry, the producer and the local authority, Vanya guides municipalities and their waste management companies in their cooperation with Brussels stakeholders to shape new legislation which now works towards achieving a circular economy and the ambitious goals of the green deal and the UN climate neutrality and sustainability goals.