Mariel Vilella

Mariel Vilella has been successfully working in the field of socio-environmental project management for the last 15 years in collaboration with key European and international networks, NGO organisations, top researchers, policy-makers and other key stakeholders.

Being the Managing Director of Zero Waste Europe, Mariel represents the vision and strategy of Zero Waste Europe, as well as manages the ZWE team in collaboration with ZWE members worldwide that are promoting zero waste policies and practices. Previous to this role she was the lead climate policy advisor with GAIA and today she continues to guide GAIA’s work on zero waste project guidelines for major sources of climate finance, and international energy policy with impacts on the waste sector. She has extensive experience in research, publications development and project management and in 2011, she was the lead author of the report ‘The European Union’s Double Standards on Waste and Climate Policy’.

Mariel Vilella is speaking at the following WCEF2017 sessions:

Mon 5 June at 14.15 : Circular Blueprints Gameshow – Driving the Economic Transition in the Nordics & Beyond