Ali Golden is Global Director of Strategic Relationships at TerraCycle, a 25-year old company dedicated to Eliminating the Idea of Waste® by recycling hard-to-recycle materials, integrating recycled content into supply chains, and scaling reuse through its Loop platform.  At TerraCycle, Ali focuses on building cross-sector partnerships with private companies, governments and NGOs to implement recycling and reuse sytems. She also leads the company's efforts to support policies that will enable a circular economy, from the UN Global Plastics Treaty negotiations to state-level EPR programs. Prior to joining TerraCycle over six years ago, she held sustainability roles at Thermo Fisher Scientific, Grant Thornton International, and Yale University's Office of Sustainability. Ali earned a Master of Environmental Management degree from the Yale School of the Environment and a BA in Environmental Studies from Yale University.