Dea Wehrli

Switzerland/India | Dea Wehrli is a social and environmental entrepreneur, currently working at the Swiss Federal Research Institution Empa on the social impact startup E[co]work – a co-working space for informal e-waste dismantlers in India. Dea holds a Master’s Degree in Environmental Sciences from ETH Zurich and has worked in topics of waste management and circular economy for the World Economic Forum, UN-IETC, ISWA and Sofies. She is the co-founder of Chez Mamie Zurich, a zero waste retail store, that opened in March 2017. Her actions and work strongly reflect her passion and engagement in bringing forward the transition towards a socially and environmentally safe, fair, and healthy resource management.