Elisa Tonda has nearly 20 years of experience in the field of environmental management, business sustainability, resource efficiency, sustainable consumption and production, and sustainable development. She has started her career in the private sector as environmental expert and then held several positions in UN organizations at global, regional and national level.
From 2002 she worked as industrial development officer at the UN Industrial Development Organization in the areas of cleaner production and sound chemicals management. In 2009 she joined UNEP as regional officer for resource efficiency and sustainable consumption and production in the Regional Office of Latin America and the Caribbean. In 2012 she joined the Economy Division where she led a progressively growing team working on the agenda of sustainable consumption and production, circular economy, sustainable value chains across several industrial sectors.
Elisa has a Master’s degree in environmental engineering from the Polytechnic of Turin, Italy and in Sustainable Development from the University of London, UK.