President, International Solid Waste Association (ISWA)

Antonis Mavropoulos is the founder and CEO of D-Waste and the President of ISWA.

He has been involved in solid waste management projects for 20 years, in 20 countries and he has completed more than 150 projects. He strongly believes that a Wasteless Future is realistic, by combining technical and social innovation.

His recent research work deals with the Fourth Industrial Revolution and its impacts to waste management and recycling. Before that, his work has focused on Globalization, Megacities and Solid Waste Management as well as with on the use of mobile apps for a better waste management.  He is also the inventor of Waste Atlas, a global interactive map that is developed in cooperation with GIZ SWEEPNET, ISWA, WTERT, SWAPI and Leeds University.

Antonis Mavropoulos has published and participated in the writing of several books and scientific publications, while his articles have been translated in Portuguese, Rumanian, Hindu and Spanish. For more about him you can visit his blog at http://wastelessfuture.com