Vanessa Forti of The United Nations University was the first speaker to kick off our Telecom/Media/Tech Program on September 17, 2020 .  Vanessa gave us a solid overview of the global electronics waste issue and an update on the latest policy developments in her presentation Global Monitoring of E-Waste. 

Vanessa is a Program Associate at UNU where she is focused on waste quantification and the evaluation of its impacts, and she is the author of various publications such as the 2020 and 2017 edition of the Global E-waste Monitor (Forti et al. 2020, Balde et al. 2017) and the globally recognized E-waste Statistics Guidelines on classification, reporting and indicators (Forti et al. 2018). 

This event was exclusive to emerging markets investment professionals.