De bijeenkomst vangt aan om 19.00 u met het aperitief en wij gaan aan tafel om 19.30 u.
Tijdens de vergadering zal de heer Ved Prakash, director of Steel en Metals at Gemini Corporation
Belgium N.V., een voordracht houden.
Ved Prakash is a Senior Board Member and Director at Gemini Corporation N.V handling close to 1.75 Million tons of recycling raw materials in Steel, Plastics, Paper, Metals and Rubber. Along with commercial operations Ved also manages the Global Logistic and Risk Management Team, responsible for handling annually over 100,000 TEU containers being shipped within 240 Port Pairs across the globe.
Ved has been a passionate frontrunner in Circular business of recyclable commodities. Ved has been advocating at many international platforms that Recycling Industry is an immediate solution to many world class problems such as Un-employment, Poverty, Sustainability and Climate Change.
Recently, Ved participated in the World Economic Forum at Davos where he conferred with prominent global leaders such as the President of Colombia, Finance Minister of Poland, Governor of Sao Paolo, Brazil, Governors of multiple states in India, The President of Flanders in Belgium amongst others. During his meeting the Director-General of the United Nations Office at Geneva Ms. Tatiana Valdovaya agreed to look into making Minimum Recycling Rate an agenda for UN to take up.
Ved has been a guest speaker for 15 years in numerous conferences such as American Metal Markets, Metal Bulletin, S&P Platts, Recycling Today, Metal Expert, SEAISI and SteelOrbis etc. He has also been guest lecturer at Thomas More, a prestigious university in
Ved has had multiple interviews published on recycling in distinguished magazines and websites such as, AMM, Recycling International, Dow Jones, Reuters, Rediff, Steel-360 and YourStory.
Ved’s over two decades experience in Recycling, Logistics and Risk Management enriches his knowledge about the challenges, opportunities and scope of Recycling Industry.