I have spent my whole career in environmental and waste management. I started my career in Haiti, where I worked for the local public water company after the 2010 earthquake. After this life-changing experience, I have developed my expertise in Industrial wastewater and waste management.  I would say that sustainability has been my job and passion since the beginning.

My organisation's business is sustainability, circularity and recycling. My job consists of setting up new recycling capabilities in Southeast Asia.

The cultural differences are one of the key challenges I met. Working in APAC brings a large cultural gap and increases the likelihood of misunderstandings. Reading the book on the culture map by Erin Meyer helps a lot to break the invisible boundaries of cultural differences.

Financing is also one of the key challenges. There is often a discrepancy between people's desire to be more sustainable and the market reality. At the end of the day, every sustainability strategy should be profitable to be long-term. But how we measure this profitability is challenging depends on your own KPI.

Being able to jump on any occasion to convince people to be more sustainable. When working in developing countries, understanding them is the key to implement good business practices there. I act where it matters.