Carla Valle-Klann is responsible for the areas pertaining to the Basel Convention technical guidelines, electronic approaches to the notification and movement documents and she leads the technical assistance programme and the e-waste programme in the Secretariat of the Basel, Stockholm and Rotterdam Conventions. Carla joined the Secretariat in September 2010. She has been working for the United Nations (UN) since 2005.

Tatiana Terekhova has a leading role in the partnership programme, engagement with non-state actors, and illegal traffic and trade of hazardous chemicals waste under the Basel, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions. Tatiana implements a number of capacity-building activities, including in relation to marine pollution and plastic wastes. She deals with the Sustainable Development Goals, in particular its indicators.

Heidi Savelli-Soderberg is acting Chief of the Source to Sea Pollution Unit focusing on plastic pollution and marine litter, wastewater and nutrients within the Marine and Freshwater Branch of the United Nations Environment Programme. She has worked with coastal and marine management including prevention of land-based sources of pollution for 20 years and led the Units work on plastics since 2009. She trained as an ecotoxicologist with an MSc from Lund University, Sweden.

Ms. Kakuko Yoshida is Global Coordinator of Chemicals and Pollution Action Subprogramme of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). Until 31st October 2021, she was the Chief Technical Advisor to the project CounterMEASURE II for Plastic Free Rivers in Asia and the Pacific. With experience over 25 years, Kakuko has led programmes and projects on environmental assessment, air pollution, chemicals and waste management, conservation education, and environment and health, in Africa, Asia Pacific, and Latin America and Caribbean.

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The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazardous Wastes and Their Disposal, usually known as the Basel Convention, is an international treaty that was designed to reduce the movements of hazardous waste between nations, and specifically to prevent the transfer of hazardous waste from developed to less developed countries (LDCs).