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After working 10 years in the private sector in several posts related to marketing and innovation Sebastien Paquot joined the European Commission in 2015 as Policy Officer in the unit in charge of Circular Economy. In 2017 he was appointed adviser to the Director General of DG Environment before becoming Member of the Private Office of Commissioner Vella in 2018. He joined the EU Delegation in China in September 2019 as Head of Section in charge of Environment and Climate files.
帅俊伟曾在私营部门不同职位工作了10年，主要从事市场营销和创新。他于2015年加入了欧洲委员会， 在环境总司负责循环经济的部门担任项目官员。他于2017年被任命为环境总司总司长（副部级）顾问，并于2018年成为欧盟环境、海事事务与渔业委员维拉（部级）内阁成员。他于2019年9月加入欧盟驻华代表团，担任处长，主要负责环境和气候政策。

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Graduated from East China University of Science and Technology, Kathy Man used to work in China National Chemical Information Center and China National Chemical Economic and Technological Development Center. Now, as the Vice Secretary-general of Committee of Multinationals, Kathy is responsible for the international organizations cooperation and communication, such as ICCA, WPC, CEFIC, ACC, IFA, UNEP, UNDP and AEPW; responsible for sustainability, particularly the plastic circular economy, promoting the establishment of CPCIF’s “two horizontal and three vertical” system of plastics waste treatment, including chemical recycling, green supply chain of recycled plastics, biodegradable plastics, policy communication and international cooperation; responsible for industry communication, leading a number of influential industry-leading projects, such as “Chemical Industry Hackathon”, "Chemical Industry CSR Project Incubator" and etc.
毕业于华东理工大学，曾就职于中国化工信息中心、中国化工经济技术发展中心，目前任中国石油和化学工业联合会国际部国际交流处处长、国际交流与外企委员会副秘书长。负责国际组织与国际交流推动，中国与ICCA、WPC、CEFIC、ACC、IFA、UNEP、UNDP、AEPW等众多国际机构的交流与合作；负责可持续发展工作，关注塑料循环经济，推动构建CPCIF应对塑料污染问题的“两横三纵”大体系——化学循环、再生塑料绿色供应链、可降解塑料、政策沟通与国际合作协同；负责行业沟通工作，创建“大学生挑战赛（黑客松）”、“化工行业CSR项目孵化器”等多个有影响力的行业先导项目。

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Dr. K Jim Jem serves as Chief Scientist, Advisor and/or Visiting Professor of multiple organizations such as World Ecology Organization, Global Forum on Human Settlements (former United Nations Ecological Industry Development Organization), China Prosperity Green Industry Foundation (under China Ministry of Industry & Information Technology), and Ningbo Institute of Materials Technology & Engineering (under China Academy of Science), etc. He received his Ph.D. in biochemical engineering from Tufts Univ., Master degrees in chemical engineering from Univ. of Minnesota and agricultural engineering from Purdue Univ., and B.S. Degree from National Taiwan University. He had worked 15 years in the USA in engineering, biotech, and pharmaceutical companies such as Ratheon, Serono, Diversa, with multiple awards such as the Young Enigneer Awards from Philadelphia and Delaware Valley Tri-States. In 2000, he moved back to China to work for bio-tech and bio-plastic companies such as Cargill, Cargill-Dow, NatureWorks PLA, Corbion Purac, and Total Corbion PLA as the Greater China General Manager (for 12 years). He had also served as a Visiting Professor for Chinese Univ. in HK, Nanjing Industry Univ. and Jiannan University plus several other universities in China.

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Derek recently joined Veolia in 2020 as Commercial Director of Veolia Huafei Polymer Technology (Zhejiang) Co., Ltd. He is focusing in plastic material commercial activities in the consumer goods segment since his graduation from ECUST in 1999 with a Bachelor degree in Fine Chemicals, while serving front-line sales and leader roles in Berry global (Legacy RPC), Evonik HPP, Husky IMS and Far Eastern Group in these years.

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Weiqing Joined Arkema Changshu R&D center (CRDC) in 2012 with a master degree in polymer from ESPCI, and after defending his Ph.D in material science and engineering in CEMEF of MINES Paristech. Since then he occupied various positions in new product development and product stewardship. He started leading technical polymer team in CRDC from 2017, and took position of Changshu R&D center director in 2020.

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Monique Maissan is a Dutch entrepreneur and textile engineer specialising in sustainable solutions for the industry. As CEO and founder of Waste2Wear, she leads a committed team towards innovating a variety of products made from recycled plastics to make a positive environmental impact. Waste2Wear has been creating products from recycled plastic bottles (RPET) for a dozen years making them a true pioneer in the industry. Not only that, they are the first company in the world to produce products from post-consumer polypropylene (RPP) from items such as fridges, washing machines, air conditioners and even car dashboards. For this innovation, they won The European Union Chamber of Commerce in China (EUCCC) Sustainable Business Award 2020.

In addition, Monique and her company, have been acknowledged through the following awards: The She Rockers MyEO Women SDG Award 2019 from EO (Entrepreneur Organization); The Personality of the Year award from the Benelux Chamber of Commerce 2019. She was a finalist for the EY (Ernst & Young) Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year 2019 award; The #1 Business Women Of Excellence award in Egypt in 2018; The Women Economic Forum’s Outstanding Women for the Advance of Sustainability award in 2017; The Sustainable. Business Award from the European Economic and Sustainability Committee in 2014; The Entrepreneur the Year award 2012 in the USA from Enterprising Women.

Monique continuously strives to create collaborations with a broad diversity of stakeholders to help creating awareness and to find solutions to protect the environment. This includes collaborations with the Jane Goodall Institute, National Geographic and many more.

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Jet Chang, holds his master of science degree from the Northwestern Polytechnic University and Nanyang Technological University, respectively. Before joining Tomra Group as Vice President for Circular Economy Business Development, he worked for a number of international and domestic companies in the environment industry such as Haldor Topsoe China, Poten Environment and Derun Environment. And before that, he served as senior commercial officer at the Embassy of Denmark in China for 7 years.
常新杰，陶朗集团循环经济业务副总裁， 欧盟中国商会环境工作组主席（兼）：常新杰于2017年加入全球收集与分选行业的领导企业-挪威陶朗集团。他拥有15年以上的环保行业从业经验，曾先后服务于丹麦驻华大使馆商务处，丹麦托普索集团，博天环境集团，德润环境等中外行业领先企业。在陶朗集团，他主要负责循环经济业务开发，重点关注塑料，尤其是消费后塑料包装，从收集，分选，再生加工与循环利用的闭环循环体系构建，也曾多次受邀在固废资源化与循环经济相关行业会议发表重要演讲。自2019年3月以来，他同时兼任欧盟中国商会（EUCCC）环境工作组主席。常新杰拥有南洋理工大学工程硕士学位以及西北工业大学工学硕士学位.

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Jack Chen is responsible for Research and Innovation activities at Clariant China. He studied undergraduate at Fudan University and received a PhD in Organic Synthesis from University of Michigan. Jack started his career in pharmaceutical process research and development at Pfizer (legacy Upjohn) in Michigan. Then he moved to GlaxoSmithKline to run its process automation group in Philadelphia. Later he held leadership positions at Asymchem Labs, a CRO/CMO company serving pharma companies based in both US and China. In 2009, he returned to Shanghai, and led Research and Innovation for DSM Nutritional Products, successfully building up two research centers in China. Before joining Clariant, Jack also spent 2 years in DSM HQ in the Netherlands, overseeing a R&D Excellence program. In additional to his 15+ years of managing R&D teams and innovation, he collaborated extensively with academic institutions and trade associations in China.