Jim Puckett

Jim is the co-founder and Executive Director of Basel Action Network, where he provides strategic oversight and implements and expands our programs. As an activist for over 25 years, his work on toxic waste and toxic waste trade has helped control pollution, safeguard fragile ecosystems from bio-accumulating toxins, protect the world’s poor from health hazards, and reuse the Earth’s limited resources. He has been a chief proponent of just international policies within the United Nations Basel Convention since its inception in 1989. As the only person to have attended every Conference of the Parties meeting, He supports delegates in drafting, approving, and implementing policies that protect people from the global trade of toxic waste. His assistance was crucial for creating regional waste trade agreements, such as the Bamako Convention, Central American Agreement, Waigani Treaty, and the Cartagena Convention Waste Trade Protocol.