Patricia Whiting is the Global Government Affairs Manager at Sims Lifecycle Services. Prior to joining Sims, she worked at the US Environmental Protection Agency for 21 years, serving as the US Basel Convention Competent Authority for over a decade. Early in her career Patricia was a Program Officer at the International Law Institute in Washington, DC and a Revenue Analyst in the Governor’s Budget Bureau in the Massachusetts Executive Office of Administration and Finance. She has a BA in Political Science and Business from the University of New Hampshire and an MS in Civil Engineering from Tufts University focusing on Hazardous Materials Management.