With over 20 years of experience in trade, Tatiana Prazeres has worked in government, the private sector, international organisations and academia in Brasilia, São Paulo, Geneva and Beijing. She was a senior advisor to the director-general of the World Trade Organization in Geneva between 2013-2018. While living in China in 2019-2021, she was a senior fellow at the University of International Business and Economics (UIBE). In 2022, she was the head director of the Department of Trade and International Relations at the Federation of Industries of São Paulo (FIESP). A career government official, she holds a PhD in international relations and a master’s in law. In 2014, she was recognised as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum.
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Kabir Arora
General Secretary- International Alliance of Waste Pickers
International Alliance of Waste Pickers (IAWP)
Kabir Arora (Qabeer Jalandhari) has been serving in his present role since July 2024. Since 2014, he has organised waste pickers, previously holding the role of national coordinator for the Alliance of Indian Waste Pickers and collaborating with Hasiru Dala in Bangalore. From 2018 to 2024, he acted as Asia Pacific coordinator for the International Alliance of Waste Pickers. He is also pursuing a PhD at the University of Witwatersrand, focusing on understanding home as a place of work for waste pickers, supported by the Southern Centre for Inequality Studies. IAWP is supported by WIEGO.
