I am a Programme Associate at UNU-Vie-SCYCLE, I hold a Master degree in Environmental Engineering from Universita’ degli Studi di Bologna where I graduated cum laude. For three years, I have been focusing my research activities on e-waste statistics and I an author of various publications that aim at quantifying e-waste amounts and problems, such as the 2017 edition of the Global E-waste Monitor 2017 (Balde’ et al., 2017) and of the globally recognized E-waste Statistics Guidelines on classification, reporting and indicators (Forti et al., 2018).