Ella Stengler is the Managing Director of CEWEP (the Confederation of European Waste-to-Energy Plants) since July 2003. CEWEP is the European Umbrella Association of the operators of Waste-to-Energy (WtE) Plants. Before that she was the Managing Director of the German WtE association ITAD and previously she headed AGS, a public-private partnership organisation dealing with hazardous waste treatment and waste shipments. She studied law in Germany and France.Ella is dealing with European policy and legislation on waste, environment, energy, climate, sustainability, pollution prevention, sustainable finance etc. Current priorities are the European Green Deal, particularly the Circular Economy and its Implementation, European Energy and Climate Policies incl the Renewable Energy Directive, the EU Emissions Trading and the EU’s target to become climate neutral by 2050.