Jessica Hanafi received her Ph.D. in Manufacturing Engineering and Management, specializing in Life Cycle Engineering from the University of New South Wales, Australia in 2008. She has been working on the area of life cycle engineering and life cycle assessment since 2003 and continued her passion in research on sustainability issues when she joined Universitas Pelita Harapan in 2010 as a lecturer in the Department of Industrial Engineering. Her research area has been in electronic waste management, reverse logistics, collection strategies, life cycle assessment, sustainable manufacturing, and sustainable supply chain management. She worked in several project collaborations and received research grants from the Ministry of Education and Culture, Ministry of Research, Technology and Higher Education and Ministry of Environment and Forestry since 2010. 

In 2015 she started to be involved in ILCAN and became an active member of the Board, taking care of Treasury and Member Relations. With the emerging issues on sustainability and life cycle perspectives among Indonesian government and industries, she felt the need to practice her knowledge into consulting and provide training by collaborating with experts within ILCAN to achieve a Sustainable Indonesia through this firm.