Joachim Quoden has extensive experience in packaging waste management and EPR, dating from 1992 when he spent 4 months in the German Federal Ministry of Environment working on packaging issues including the German Packaging Ordinance. From 1993 to 2006, Mr Quoden worked with Der Grüne Punkt - Duales System Deutschland GmbH as inhouse lawyer / Syndicus, where he was appointed head of International Affairs in 2001. Between 2001 and 2013, he also became Secretary General and later Managing Director of PRO EUROPE, the umbrella organisation of 35 packaging recovery organisations. Since 2013, Mr Quoden has been the Managing Director of EXPRA, an alliance of 27 PRO’s from 25 countries from all over the world. Besides the above, Mr Quoden is working since 1995 as independent lawyer in Germany specializing in international EPR legislation, chairperson of ISWA’s EU group, and has served as an expert in many industry platforms and projects like the ISO global standardisation project SIS/TK 165/AG 10 Packaging and Environment, CEFLEX, HolyGrail 2.0, Close the Glass Loop and 4EverGreen.