Chemicals Management for Electronics in Europe 2022

Danielle is the Content Marketing Manager at Chemical Watch, and has been with the business for nearly five years. Prior to this, she was the Reports Editor at publisher B2B Marketing and a Senior Researcher at business intelligence company Pearlfinders. She is bilingual (English/French) and holds a degree in English & Film from the University of Southampton.

Jan is Environmental Compliance Officer at BARCO and leads the Barco in house ECO office team responsible for environmental product compliance, compliance data collection, chemical product safety and EPR reporting. He is overseeing future proof products designed with focus on sustainable design anticipating future regulatory, standards and market demands.

Margaux Le Gallou is a Programme Manager at ECOS, the Environmental Coalition on Standards. She is responsible for ECOS activities related to the standardisation process and political developments in chemicals, environmental assessment, and environmental information. She notably follows development on Digital Product Passports. Prior to joining ECOS in 2021, she worked on circular economy and eco-innovation policies. Margaux holds a BA in politics and international relations from the University of Kent, a MA in European affairs from Sciences Po Lille, and a MA in European economics from the College of Europe.

Susanne is partner at ERM. ERM supports sustained business success in a context where sustainability, environmental, health, safety and social performance expectations are rapidly increasing. As a Partner in ERM's UK & Ireland business, but with an EMEA remit, Susanne is focused on driving high-performance corporate sustainability strategies, producer responsibility and climate programmes for global companies at the cutting edge of advanced digital technology: from semi-conductor manufacturing, consumer electronics, telecoms and data centres, through to software providers, social media and tv and media content producers. Formally, Susanne was Associate Director, Climate, Environment and Sustainability at techUK, the business organisation for the UK’s technology sector. She was also a board member of the High Speed Sustainable Manufacturing Institute.

Jean-Pierre Schweitzer is Senior Policy Officer for Circular Economy and Products at the EEB. He follows the development of various types of product policy at the European level including ecodesign, green public procurement, extended producer responsibility and product environmental footprinting. He is particularly focused on the electronics and packaging sectors. He also helped to set up the European Right to Repair movement – a growing movement of organisations hoping to enable repair in Europe. Prior to joining the EEB in 2018, Jean-Pierre worked for four years in the environmental economics team of the Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP) a Brussels based think-tank. He has a masters in Environmental Policy and Geography from Humboldt University and Oxford.

Christina is the President & CEO at the Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Institute, where she is globally responsible for the growth, innovation, and impact initiatives across sectors such as built environment, fashion, cosmetics, cleaning products, electronics and packaging. Before joining the Institute Christina held management positions in international sustainability firms at the forefront of environmental and circularity services. Christina started her professional journey at the United Nations Industrial Development Organisation and holds a PhD in materials chemistry.

Robert (Bob) Leet is an Intel Senior Technologist, and Senior Supply Chain EHS Engineer at Intel Corporation, in Portland, Oregon, USA; where he has been employed for 27 years. He holds a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Chemical Engineering from Arizona State University, his Master’s degree focusing on Semiconductor Processing and Manufacturing. His specialties are in the U.S. TSCA regulation, and regulatory impacts to process technologies for Intel’s Global Supply Chain organisation. He is the holder of seven patents for semiconductor devices and waste treatment technologies. He is a published author in three journals, and has published many industry papers related to chemical regulatory, conflict minerals and corporate responsibility topics. Bob is a member of the US Semiconductor Industry Association, and is the U.S. Chair of the World Semiconductor Council’s EHS Task Force.

As IPC’s EHS policy and research director, Kelly Scanlon leads the association’s advocacy on topics related to environment, health and safety. She coordinates with IPC’s government relations committees and the standards and education teams to develop robust policy and research agendas relevant to electronics manufacturers. Dr. Scanlon began her role with IPC in April 2019 and comes to IPC with more than 20 years of experience as a public health scientist.

Bob is a subject matter expert in globally restricted substances (RoHS, REACH and Prop 65) with over 10 years of experience servicing all sizes of organisations.

Cindy is an attorney-adviser in the Existing Chemicals Risk Management Division of the Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She has more than 20 years of experience in developing chemical substance regulations under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). Cindy’s current responsibility is regulatory development under TSCA section 6, chemical substances in her portfolio include phenol, isopropylated phosphate (3:1), decabromodiphenyl ether, 1,4-dioxane, and trichloroethylene.

Danelle Gagliardi represents a wide variety of clients in complex environmental transactions, litigation and regulatory compliance, including those in the metals, mining, waste management and chemical industries, as well as the renewable energy industry. She regularly advises on obligations under state and federal environmental statutes including the Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Toxics Substances Control Act (TSCA), Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) and California’s Proposition 65 (Prop 65).

Aury Hathout, M. Env, VEA®, CEA, is a certified environmental auditor and has a Master’s degree in Environment combined with graduate education in Business Administration from the University of Sherbrooke. Since 2008, Aury provides practical consulting services, including environmental compliance and management systems auditing in multiple industrial and services sectors. He is the environmental compliance specialist of hundreds of electrical and electronic products sold worldwide, with any of the following requirements: RoHS, REACH SVHC, WEEE, PFAS, TSCA-PBT, Conflict Minerals, California Proposition 65, etc. At Enviropass, Aury works as the lab quality manager.

Arlene PhD, biophysical chemist, author, and mountaineer is a Research Associate in Biology at the University of California at Berkeley and executive director of the Green Science Policy Institute. The Institute’s scientific research and policy work with business and government has contributed to reducing the use of classes of harmful chemicals including flame retardants and PFAS in consumer products worldwide. She is the author of Annapurna: A Woman’s Place and Breaking Trail: A Climbing Life

Lead Chemicals analyst and BOMcheck implementation consultant. Harry with an educational background in Chemistry, is responsible for the assessment and screening of all restricted and declarable substances added to BOMcheck which includes substances regulated under RoHS, REACH, Proposition 65, EU MDR and US TSCA.

Leigh is Chemical Watch News & Insight's Managing Editor and was previously in charge of our global business coverage. Prior to joining the company, Leigh wrote for the Press Association, ICIS and edie.net, covering a range of environmental and business related topics.

Steven assists companies with their understanding of environmental regulations and how they are enforced. He is an internationally recognized expert, with more than 20 years of experience in EU policy development focusing on sustainability, product, waste and recycling legislation.

Ruxandra defends industry interests towards legal and regulatory challenges to EU market access. Her practice is focused on EU regulatory law and litigation with a strong emphasis on product, environmental and sustainability regulations, across a large number of sectors ranging from raw materials (chemicals, minerals) to products such as electronics, consumer apparel, medical devices, cosmetics, food and food contact materials. Ruxandra also advises on supply-chain related matters, in particular environmental and regulatory. Although rules and regulations apply per jurisdiction, companies operate globally – her expertise and advice assist companies address global challenges and risks. Ruxandra’s litigation experience is extensive (she defended close to 100 actions before the European Court of Justice and before the Board of Appeal of ECHA), and she has formed and continues to act as a trusted advisor to more than 30 industry groups.

Kamila joined Eurometaux in March 2017 and she is in charge of the Sustainability Department. Her professional experience includes working in an environmental consultancy advising amongst others on the Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS). In 2006 she joined APPLiA (formerly CECED) representing household appliance industry, where she dealt with energy efficiency, e-waste and chemical matters. Later on she moved to CECIMO being responsible for ecodesign, standardisation, EU funded projects and other technical dossiers relevant to machine tools sector. Kamila studied Environmental Protection and Management in Poland at Gdansk University of Technology (BSc) and Nicolaus Copernicus University in Torun (MSc).

For over 24 years Claudio Mereu has been focusing on EU Regulatory law, with an emphasis on the chemicals (REACH), pesticides, biocides and life sciences industry sectors. Claudio handles product approval and registration processes in the EU, related litigation before European and national courts, as well as ECHA’s Board of Appeal, and counsels companies on a wide range of business law matters relating to their international agreements and commercial presence in Europe. His expertise covers all aspects of product stewardship, regulations and restrictions (including notification, data protection, mutual recognition, classification & labelling, marketing and use restrictions, parallel imports, environmental liability, product recalls and data compensation negotiations, amongst others). Claudio is highly recommended as a Tier1 lawyer by Legal500 and Chambers Europe, and is a regular speaker and panelist at international conferences.

Michaela is a regulatory assistant at the Prioritisation and Integration Directorate of ECHA, involved in the coordination of the SCIP database-related activities. Before this, she worked with REACH when performing completeness checks on REACH registration and PPORD dossiers. Previously she has worked in research and development, both in medical devices and organic chemistry. Michaela has a degree in Pharmaceutical Biotechnology (chemical engineering) and was born in Slovakia.

Kamelija Milosev is a Subject Matter Expert specializing in EU chemicals, biocides, and medical device legislation and has been with Enhesa since 2019. She obtained her European Law Bachelor’s degree from the University of Maastricht and her Master of Law degree in Innovation, Technology and the Law from the University of Edinburgh, where she found herself most interested in the topics of bioethics and medical technology law. Her expertise is predominantly focused around the EU REACH, CLP, BPR and MDR – as she hopes to make sense of these complex pieces of legislation to companies, be it through personalized impact consultations, topic-specific trainings, best practice guidance, webinars, or conference events. Through a combination of legal acumen, practical experience and common sense, Kamelija helps companies build and maintain a change-proof, sustainable and most importantly -compliant- products portfolio.

Jitka Straková, is a global researcher at International Pollutants Elimination Netwok (IPEN), a global network forging a healthier world where people and the environment are no longer harmed by the production, use, and disposal of toxic chemicals. Since 15 year ago, Jitka worked as a volunteer, a local campaigner and later as a coordinator of international projects and as a research advisor in Arnika, Czech-based NGO. Jitka’s work is closely interlinked with IPEN’s Dioxins, PCB and Waste Working Group and involves conducting various studies on persistent organic pollutants (POPs) in products, waste and the environment. Jitka authored several studies on POPs chemicals in products and co-authored monitoring reports on POPs pollution hot-spots around the globe. 

Pascal Leroy, Director General of the WEEE Forum since 2007, oversees the general management of the association. He has been involved in all manner of e-waste programmes, policies and projects for twenty years. Formerly he was Government Affairs Manager on WEEE at APPLiA, the European home appliance manufacturing industry association. He also worked for five years in the European Parliament, as well as for Hill and Knowlton, one of the world’s largest PR/PA firms.

Randy has over 25 years working in product certification and compliance and holds a BSEE from ITT Technical Institute as well as a certificate in Electromagnetic Compatibility from the University of Missouri-Rolla.

Jonatan has background as a PhD in organic chemistry and experience from working as a project manager within different sectors, including MedTech, automotive and pharmaceutical industry. At ChemSec, he coordinates the different projects and leads the work on PFAS, with a focus on safer alternatives to PFAS, as well as being responsible for the ChemSec Business Group.

Lisa Allen has a background in inorganic and physical chemistry from the University of Cambridge. Prior to joining ILA she led the work of REACHReady Ltd, a membership organisation providing regulatory and technical to stakeholders affected by EU REACH. Since 2016, Lisa has managed the Lead (Pb) REACH Consortium, acting on behalf of a membership of more than 90 legal entities involved in the mining, smelting, refining, use and recycling of lead metal, the manufacture of lead compounds, and the production of lead-based batteries. She also coordinates the efforts of ILA’s cross-industry advocacy and communications taskforce (‘Pb MACTF’), established to support downstream users and other stakeholders impacted by the prioritisation of lead metal for REACH Authorisation.

Francesco Gattiglio is Director External Affairs, EU at Albemarle, a global specialty chemicals company with leading positions in lithium, bromine and refining catalysts. He joined Albemarle in 2022. Before joining Albemarle, he worked as Director EU Affairs & Policy at EUROBAT, the Association of European Automotive and Industrial Battery Manufacturers, since 2014. At Albemarle, he follows in particular the EU legislation on sustainability, due diligence, decarbonisation and electrification of transports. He has a background in International Relations (University of Florence) and International Political Economy (University of Warwick).

Sander is heading the European Advocacy activities of ICL-IP. In this role, he's responsible for all advocacy activities with a focus on regulatory and REACH related matters for several product groups. He has an MSc degree from the University of Utrecht (The Netherlands) in Environmental Toxicology and has a BSc degree in Analytical and Bio-chemistry. Previous to ICL, he had various positions (R&D, Product Stewardship, Regulatory) in the chemical industry (AkzoNobel, Supresta) and at a consultancy (AquaSense). Sander represents ICL in a number of downstream industry associations, with expertise in the fields of  REACH, globally emerging regulations, risk/hazard and exposure assessment and monitoring.

Jindrich is a Programme Director of the Arnika – Toxics and Waste Programme, Czech Republic and IPEN advisor for dioxins and wastes. He has more than thirty years experience in leading campaigns on chemical and waste issues. He represents IPEN in expert groups of the Stockholm and Basel Conventions and co-authored more than eighty technical reports on dioxins, mercury and waste .

Hugo has represented the metals sector on REACH and other chemicals management programs for the past 15 years. He takes part in the ECHA SEAC and MSC meetings as industry observer and has therefore first-hand experience in respect to REACH programs and how they are implemented by sectors and companies.