Materials Expert, World Wide Fund for Nature-Singapore
Yvonne’s role as a Materials Expert aims to guide businesses (mainly in the packaging waste) towards sustainability, by firstly, identifying unnecessary packaging that can be eliminated or switched to reusable and secondly, providing consultancy on the material’s impact on the environment.
She is well versed in Materials and Environment issues, and the different waste management technologies, having graduated from Nanyang Technological University with a B.Eng. in Materials Engineering (2004), M.Sc. in Environmental Engineering (2007) and PhD in Environmental Engineering (2016). Before joining WWF-SG, she had close to 10 years of research experience on solid waste treatment.