BAN's Board
Shawn Drew, Board Member
Shawn is the Data Integration Solutions Architect and Senior Applications Systems Engineer at University of Washington. He has worked in Advancement at University of Washington for the past 20 years, where he leads information management in the development and alumni relations departments to establish better data processes to help increase engagement among constituents. He led the University’s conversion to the Advance® software to more closely reflects gift officer and researcher needs and workflows. Under his leadership, his team created the Advance® training curriculum and launched a training series to highlight best practices so groups can use data analytics to improve their fundraising.
Roberto Ferrigno, Board Member
Roberto is founder and director of Lumina Consult in Brussels. He provides strategic advice to one of the core partners of the initiative on the New Plastics Economy launched by the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. He is also senior advisor to major global producers of bio-polymers, and to Hanover Communications and its clients on the development of progressive Circular Economy policy positions. He is advisor to the Chair of the Industry Committee of the Italian Senate. Roberto has held senior management positions in organisations such as Greenpeace International, the European Environmental Bureau (EEB), and Weber Shandwick. He has also served as the appointed national expert for Italy in the Secretariat of the Section for Agriculture, Rural Development and Environment, the Economic and Social Committee of the European Communities (ESC) and worked in the Italian Agency for the Protection of the Environment (ANPA) as strategic and policy advisor to the President.
Yuyun Ismawati, Board Member
Yuyun is a leading Indonesian environmental activist. Her career in the environmental movement covers more than 20 years of campaign leadership, organizational development and management, and toxic-free advocacy. She is the co-founder and Senior Advisor of Nexus3 Foundation (formerly known as BaliFokus Foundation). Yuyun has built her organization from the grassroots level to a reputable global NGO.
Jointly with allies, she co-founded and led various environmental coalitions and partnerships at the national, regional, and global levels including the Alliance for Zero Waste Indonesia (AZWI), Ina-BAN (Indonesian Ban Asbestos Network), and Initiative for Universal Clean Air (Inisiatif Bersihkan Udara Koalisi Semesta or IBUKOTA).
Jim Puckett, Executive Director and Founder
Jim, Executive Director and Founder of Basel Action Network, has been an environmental health and justice advocate for 28 years. He has served as Greenpeace International’s Toxics Director based in Amsterdam, Netherlands, where his campaign was instrumental in achieving the Ban Amendment to the UN Basel Convention as well as numerous regional waste trade bans. He has represented civil society within the Basel Convention since its inception in 1989. Campaigning against all forms of toxic trade, he has traveled extensively researching, writing, and producing films.
