Vanessa Forti, Programme Associate UNUVie- SCYCLE, is an environmental engineer graduated cum laude from Universita’ degli Studi di Bologna. 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 recently published 2020 edition of the Global E-waste Monitor 2020 (Forti et al. 2020) and the globally recognized E-waste Statistics Guidelines on classification, reporting and indicators (Forti et al. 2018). Vanessa has an in-depth expertise in developing methodologies, surveying, modelling, and reporting on waste statistics (e-waste, mercury, and battery waste). She is also a member of the Global E-waste Statistics Partnership, which works to help countries produce e-waste statistics and to build a global e-waste database for tracking developments over time. She has co-developed e-waste guidelines on classification, reporting and indicators with the aim to support governments in compiling e-waste data using an internationally harmonized framework.