Sustainable Waste Management in Armenia

Ms. Karin Eberle, MSc in Chemical Engineering, has over 20 years of international experience in waste management. She has served as a consultant for municipal and private companies as well as for the Asian Development Bank. Currently, she is the sustainability manager of LL Group, which offers a waste management and entrepreneurial services in Stockholm. She is a board member of the Swedish Recycling Industries’ Association, and chairman at the Swedish Association for Road Transport Companies’ Advisory Board for Environmental Services. In this project, she is the team leader responsible for recommendations for developing a sustainable and strategic SWM system.

 

Mr. Anders Lärkert, MSc in Civil Engineering, has 35 years of international experience in waste management. Before becoming an international consultant, Mr. Lärkert was the CEO of a private waste company (later Suez Sweden) in Sweden. He has strong regional experience particularly from Russia and Uzbekistan as well as from Armenia and Azerbaijan. In this project, he is particularly experienced in waste logistics and is in charge of data collection and waste composition analysis.

 

Ms. Ingrid Håstad, MSc in Environmental studies, has over 30 years of international experience in the environmental regulatory framework and waste management. She is a specialist on hazardous waste, healthcare waste and WEEE (electric and electronic waste) related to EU regulations. Before becoming a consultant, Ms. Håstad worked at the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency and with environmental health and protection issues at local environmental health boards. In this project, she is responsible for data collection and capacity building on healthcare waste, e-waste (WEEE), among others.

 

Alen Amirkhanian holds a Masters in City Planning (’97) from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Department of Urban Studies and Planning. Currently, he is the director of the AUA Acopian Center for the Environment. In 2014, he established AUA Center for Responsible Mining and is acting as its interim director. He teaches graduate and undergraduate environmental courses at AUA. He also served as senior vice president of research at Michael Porter’s Initiative for a Competitive Inner City. He has consulted with the World Bank, UNDP, and the Brookings Institution on energy efficiency as well as economic and urban-growth issues. 

 

Harutyun Alpetyan, an alumnus of the AUA Master of Engineering in Industrial Engineering and Systems Management, has been appointed as a lead expert for waste governance in Armenia, an 11-month project that started in November 2018. The project is funded by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs under its Swedish-Armenian SDG Expert Exchange Programme. Alpetyan has worked in the field of industrial automation and integration as a product design development manager. As part of his academic experience, he has focused on energy management as well as analyzed Yerevan’s waste-collection system. He also co-teaches courses at AUA on topics such as solid and hazardous waste and developing and implementing environmental projects.