Advisory panel The World Economic Forum, RMI and the Global Battery Alliance would like to thank the following individuals for their valuable contributions. While the individuals and organizations acknowledged on the following pages provided significant input to the development of this report, their participation does not necessarily imply endorsement of the report’s contents or recommendations.Ma Linwei Director, Tsinghua-Rio Tinto Joint Research Centre, Tsinghua University Jemilah Mahmood Executive Director, Sunway Centre for Planetary Health, Sunway University Billy Mawasha Chief Executive Officer, Kolobe Nala Investments Douglas McCauley Director, Benioff Ocean Science Laboratory; Professor, University of California, Santa Barbara Sandor Mulsow Tenure Professor, Austral University of Chile Elsa A. Olivetti Professor in Materials Science and Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)Juliana Segura-Salazar Research Fellow, University of Queensland Pranshu Singhal Founder and Director, Karo Sambhav Sven Teske Associate Professor; Research Director, Institute for Sustainable Futures, University of Technology, Sydney Kimmo Tiilikainen Director-General, Geological Survey of Finland Jocelyne Tsonang Executive Member, African Circular Economy Network Felipe Valencia-Dongo Managing Partner, Grupo Estrategia Wei Bao Vice-President, Zhejiang Huayou Alexander Batteiger Component-Lead on Circular Economy; Coordinator PREVENT Waste Alliance, GIZ Nathalie Bernasconi-Osterwalder Vice-President; Executive Director, Europe, International Institute for Sustainable Development Kimberley Botwright Head, Sustainable Trade, World Economic Forum James Clark Vice-President, Strategic Supply Chain, FREYR Battery Francois Cuenot Secretary to the Working Party on Pollution and Energy (WP .29/GRPE), UNECE Holly Anne Evans Senior Vice-President, Environmental Policy and Legal Affairs, Responsible Business Alliance James Fraser Vice-President, Commercial, Euro Manganese Richard Fuller Chief Executive Officer, Pure Earth Kathleen Garcia Nascimento Deputy Secretary of State, Government of the State of Minas Gerais Wouter Ghyoot Vice-President, Government Affairs, Umicore Katharine Hole Chief Executive Officer, Association for the Battery Recycling Industry Judy Jeevarajan Vice-President; Executive Director, Electrochemical Safety Research Institute, UL Research Institutes Larry Kotoe Deputy Director, Ghana Environmental Protection Agency Alissa Kendall Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering, University of California, Davis Pierre Kubiak Principal Scientist, National Physical Laboratory (NPL) - UK Esther Laabs Project Manager, Raw Materials and Batteries, WWF Germany Xiao Lin Chief Executive Officer, Botree Recycling Technologies Powering the Future: Overcoming Battery Supply Chain Challenges with Circularity 37

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