Gayle Sloan, Chief Executive Officer, Waste Management & Resource Recovery Association of Australia (WMRRA)

Gayle started as CEO of WMRR in November 2016. She is a passionate advocate for the sector, determined to have it recognised as the essential industry that it is, and ensuring it is perceived as vital to both the Australian environment as well as to ensuring the economic and social value of the material we manage is recognised and realised.

Gayle has a law and arts degree from the University of Adelaide. She worked for the NSW Attorney General’s Department for a number of years before moving into the Attorney General’s Ministerial Office in 1998, and then the NSW Police Minister’s Office in 2000.

Following this time in state government, Gayle worked as a Director in a number of NSW councils, primarily looking after service delivery, procurement, capital works and assets. She developed and delivered a number of waste and recycling contracts on behalf of councils, as well as managed environment and regulatory departments, including rangers and compliance officers.