Arese is a postgraduate from Imperial College with over 20 years of experience as an Occupational Health, Safety and Environmental Sustainability Expert across sectors. She is the Executive Secretary of the Food & Beverage Recycling Alliance, an industry coalition to enhance the waste management operations in the value chain and has supported the recovery of over 20,000 MT of post-consumer packaging diverted from landfill and implementing the Extended Producer Responsibility for the packaging sector in Nigeria. Arese serves as a critical sector stakeholder to enable the recycling of packaging material into productive use. Prior to this current role, she had a consultancy stint in the United Kingdom and Germany, functioned as Project HSE Manager in the oil and gas sector, and serves as a subject matter expert in several conferences, webinars and seminars.