Llorenç Milà i Canals is the Head of the Secretariat of the Life Cycle Initiative, based in Paris. The Life Cycle Initiative is a multi-stakeholder partnership launched in 2002 and hosted by UNEP, with the aim of enabling the global use of credible life cycle knowledge by private and public decision makers. It currently joins the efforts of over 100 institutions (governments, businesses, and science and civil society) as well as hundreds of individual experts that contribute to the improvement and sharing of life cycle knowledge, and its use in policy and decision making (e.g. informing UNEA Member States on the life cycle assessment perspectives on single-use plastic products and their alternatives). Llorenç joined UNEP’s office in Paris to lead its life cycle thinking work in 2013, after working in academia and industry in Spain and the UK. He works across teams in UNEP to embed the intelligence of life cycle systems thinking into programmes such as the One Planet network, the International Resource Panel, the Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management, etc. and key partnerships such as the New Plastics Economy Global Commitment with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation. He also oversees the Global LCA Data Access Network (GLAD). Llorenç holds a BSc(Hons), an MSc and a PhD on Environmental Sciences from the Autonomous University of Barcelona (Spain) and is a Visiting Professor at the University of Surrey (UK).