Vanessa Forti, Associate Programme Officer at UNITAR-SCYCLE, is an environmental engineer. She has a strong experience in the field of sustainability with more than four years of experience in waste quantification at global level, waste management, resource efficiency and assessing environmental impacts associated to hazardous chemicals. Vanessa is the author of various publications that focus on quantifying e-waste amounts and environmental impacts, such as the 2020 and the 2024 edition of the Global E-waste Monitor, and the globally recognized E-waste Statistics Guidelines on classification, reporting and indicators (Forti et al. 2018). She has conducted numerous projects for various European Institutions, she has co-developed EEE Placed on Market and WEEE Generated tools and manuals that are used globally.