Nerida Kelton is the Vice President Sustainability & Save Food, for the World Packaging Organisation (WPO) and the Executive Director for the Australasian Institute of Packaging (AIP).
She has worked in the Packaging industry for over 28 years, with 25 years working for the AIP; the peak professional body for packaging training and education in Australasia.
As an active lecturer and trainer in the AIP educational portfolio Nerida is committed to helping educate and train packaging professionals in the importance of sustainable and circular packaging design, how to design out waste at the start and believes that it is important to showcase and recognise best practice in these areas. Nerida was recently awarded her Fellowship for her significant contribution to the packaging industry through training and education across the globe.
Nerida was recently selected by the Federal Government Department of Climate Change, Energy, the Environment and Water (DCCEEW) as one of 8x technical experts for the newly established National Packaging Design Standards Working Group and she has also been selected as an industry expert for the Collective Action Group for APCO, which is an advisory group to the Federal Government.
Nerida is also very passionate about educating the industry on the important role that packaging plays in minimising Food Waste and how designing Save Food Packaging can make a difference. She is the lead for the Save Food Packaging Consortium project within the End Food Waste Cooperative Research Centre, is published in this area, the lead for the Packaging Working Group on End Food Waste Australia and was the packaging representative on Australia’s National Food Waste Strategy 10x person Steering Committee.
