Speakers for Global Waste Strategies Summit to be announced soon
Speakers include:
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Martin Brocklehurst
HEAD OF WASTE STRATEGY
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY |
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Martin Brocklehurst joined the Environment Agency at the start of 1998 and currently is Head of Waste Strategy, responsible for Non-regulatory aspects of waste and resource utilisation as well as the producer responsibility aspects and the lead role in
delivering wiser use of natural resources theme of the Agency Vision. Martin joined the Agency following 10 years environmental experience within Local Government and 12 years experience in industry. He has experience at District and County Council level on a wide range of environmental matters including contaminated land remediation, waste disposal, planning and wildlife conservation.
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Malcolm D Chilton
MANAGING DIRECTOR
COVANTA ENERGY Ltd |
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Malcolm Chilton is Managing Director of Covanta Energy Ltd.
Malcolm is responsible for establishing the Covanta business in the UK and the development of all new business including bidding to Waste Authorities and the acquisition of new businesses.
Malcolm joined Covanta in November 2005. Prior to that he was a founding Director of Energy Power Resources Ltd (EPR). EPR was formed to develop renewable energy projects and by April 2005 the company was generating 135MW of electricity from over 1Mtpa of agriculture residue. Prior to EPR Malcolm was a Director of AEP Ltd, now part of Veolia.
For much of the 1990s Malcolm was Chairman of the Energy from Waste Association, an industry association set up to lobby government on issues affecting the Energy from Waste industry.
Malcolm is a Chartered Engineer and has a BSc. In Electrical and Electronic Engineering.
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Christof Delatter
DIRECTOR OF INTERAFVAL
VVSG – ASSOCIATION OF FLEMISH CITIES AND MUNICIPALITIES
BELGIUM
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Christof is responsible for intermunicipal cooperation, public- private partnerships and co-ordinates the waste policy team. He directs the cooperation between VVSG and 27 Flemish waste-treatment intercommunales (INTERAFVAL). This includes advising, determination of positions, organising mutual projects, protection and representation of interests at different levels. He has close contacts with the municipalities, intermunicipal organisations as well as with the central government and Cabinet officials.
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Ian Findlater
CORPORATE DEVELOPMENT DIRECTOR
MAY GURNEY INTEGRATED SERVICES
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Ian Findlater is the Corporate Development Director for May Gurney Integrated Services. The company has been involved in engineering solutions for the UK waste industry for over fifteen years, and is currently working on a significant number of waste management projects including a number of PFI proposals.
Ian is a Chartered Surveyor with a legal background. Prior to his involvement in May Gurney five years ago, (and his participation in the MBO and subsequent flotation) Ian worked for Tarmac and, through his participation in seven joint venture businesses, concluded that collaborative working, combined with proper communication are essential in the delivery of successful projects. And yet these are too often undervalued and neglected in the area of Waste Management.
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Ian Galbraith
HEAD OF WASTE STRATEGY
GLASGOW CITY COUNCIL
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Ian is Head of Waste Strategy at Glasgow City Council, Scotland's largest local authority and is responsible for implementing the Council's waste strategy and wast management operations within the city. He has 30 years experience in waste
management that includes incineration, high/medium density baling, recycling
and landfill operations.
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Dr Les Grant
GROUP CHIEF EXECUTIVE
PREMIER WASTE MANAGEMENT
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Les Grant has had a varied career spanning several industries. A mathematician with a PhD in electronic systems design, his industrial career started at Ferranti working on the development of avionic navigation systems. He then spent 15 years in various senior engineering management roles with GEC-Marconi.
In 1991 he joined a Californian biotechnology start-up, Applied Imaging Corporation as its President, developing a market leading genetic screening business which achieved a NASDAQ flotation in 1997.
He joined Premier Waste Management in 2000 as its Group Chief Executive where his main interests are the development and application of new carbon-efficient waste treatment and recycling technologies.
For the last 12 years Dr Grant has been Royal Academy of Engineering Visiting Professor in Principles of Engineering Design at Newcastle University.
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Herman Huisman, Msc
SENIOR ADVISOR AND EXPERT
SENTERNOVEM WASTE MANAGEMENT DEPARTMENT
NETHERLANDS
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Herman Huisman (Msc.) is senior advisor/expert of the SenterNovem Waste Management Department. In 1991 he was asked to set up the Bureau of the Waste Management Council. The Waste management Council has served from 1990 to 2005 as a political platform for consultation and coordination between the National, Provincial and Municipal authorities on waste management in the Netherlandsa political body. In 2001 he was appointed as the exective secretary of the Council and director of the Bureau. The Bureau of the Waste Management Council merged with SenterNovem, an Agency of the Ministery of Ecomic Affairs, January 2005.
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Pippa Hyam
DIRECTOR
DIALOGUE BY DESIGN
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Pippa is one of the UK's leading facilitators. She is a pioneer in the
use of stakeholder dialogue and participatory processes in decision
making. Starting her career in information and communications at Friends
of the Earth UK, she went on to work in Canada for a company dedicated
to public policy decision making (PDA International). She went on to set
up and run PDA's office in London for three years prior to setting up
her own business. Pippa was a founder member of The Environment
Council's Environmental Resolve Committee as well as a founder member of
Interact, a network of practitioners, commentators and academics working
in the field of participation.
Pippa was responsible for the design and running of a project to develop
a community waste strategy in Hampshire in the early 1990's, one of the
UK's earliest examples of a participatory approach to community
consultation and involvement. Following that she led a team in the
design and implementation of a pan-European project for Shell to find a
solution to the Brent Spar disposal problem. She has worked on projects
as diverse as international consultations around gas exploration
projects in Peru, mining projects in Madagascar, the development of best
practice guidelines for the renewable energy sector, community planning
processes for local communities and strategic decision making workshops
for corporations.
Since setting up Dialogue by Design Pippa has specialised in desiging
techniques that integrate face to face approaches to consulation and
engagement with web-based tools.
Pippa also works with a number of organisations to deliver training
courses in facilitation and process management.
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Ben Jennings
HEAD OF WASTE
DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL |
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Ben Jennings has been responsible for the County Councils waste disposal service since 1990. He has managed the development of a Waste Management Strategy for Devon and organised the provision of new recycling centres and the upgrading of existing ones. He is the lead officer of the Devon Authorities Waste Reduction and Recycling Committee and has chaired the Officers Forum. He is currently Chairman of the Devon Composting Partnership Project Board dealing with the delivery of the £5.6m DEFRA grant to provide in-vessel facilities in Devon and took a leading role in the very successful £1.2m Dont Let Devon go to Waste Campaign to win the support of the Devon people and encourage full participation in the recycling opportunities available in the County.
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Tim Judson
DIRECTOR OF PROCUREMENT
GREATER MANCHESTER WASTE DISPOSAL AUTHORITY
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Tim Judson is on secondment from DEFRA to the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority as their Director of Procurement. Over the previous 4 years, Tims policy work included DEFRAs management of waste funding. Tims background in the Civil Service includes work on general local authority finance, Compulsory Competitive Tendering, Best Value and establishing Transport for London. He has previously undertaken secondments to two waste management companies, as a change management consultant with the World Bank in Lagos, Nigeria, and to London Borough of Lewisham.
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Paul Macken
DIRECTOR OF WASTE MANAGEMENT
IOK
BELGIUM
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Paul began at the regional study office of IOK and became Director of the IOK Waste Department. He is currently Vice-President of Interafval which is the co-operation of the Flemish inter-municipal waste management organisations and represents Flemish municipalities and inter-municipal waste management organisations in negotiations with administration, cabinet officials and industry. In a short time, Interafval has become a prominent spokespartner on municipal solid waste management for the regional government and official departments.
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Wayman J. Pearson
KEY BUSINESS EXECUTIVE
CITY OF CHARLOTTE
SOLID WASTE SERVICES DEPARTMENT
USA
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Wayman J. Pearson is currently the Key Business Executive (KBE) for the City of Charlotte’s Solid Waste Services Department. Prior to acceptance of this present position, he served as the Solid Waste Manager for the City of Clearwater, Florida. He supervised the City of Clearwater’s transition from a manual collection system to a fully automated collection system, which resulted in major reductions in manpower and overtime. Wayman J. Pearson is widely recognized as one of the industry’s leaders in collection techniques and systems. He has published numerous technical papers within the solid waste industry and has been featured in numerous publications as a leader in the Solid Waste Industry. Mr. Pearson is past President of the Collection and Transfer Division for Solid Waste Association of North America (SWANA). Wayman continues to apply his vast experience in the solid waste industry by collaborating with communities to evaluate the competitiveness of their collection service delivery
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Liz Poulter
SENIOR WASTE MANAGEMENT OFFICER
DEVON COUNTY COUNCIL |
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Liz Poulter joined the Devon Waste Management Team in 1992 and has specialised in promoting waste education and awareness initiatives. She works closely with the District and Unitary Authorities in Devon and with the Community Sector. Appointed as Project Manager for the “Don’t Let Devon go to Waste” campaign in 2002, Liz working with a professional marketing agency RH Advertising, became the driving force and creative talent behind the campaign.
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Margo Reid Brown
CHAIR
CALIFORNIA INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT BOARD
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Ms. Margo Reid Brown, a Sacramento native, was appointed as a full-time Board Member by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger on January 11, 2006. Ms. Brown, whose term expires on January 1, 2009, represents the public. She was elected as Chair of the Board on February 14, 2006, in a unanimous decision.
Prior to joining the Board, Ms. Brown served as Director of Scheduling for Governor Schwarzenegger since 2004. Ms. Brown was previously the founder and president of Capitol Ideas Development Corporation, a community relations and fund development consulting firm.
Ms. Brown also served as President of the Junior League of Sacramento from 1999 to 2000. Her community involvement also includes her service as a board member of Prevent Child Abuse California, Sacramento Capitol Club, and the Putting Our Children First neighborhood alliance. Her dedicated public service reaches back to 1985, working for then-Senator Pete Wilson, and later as Director of Scheduling for Governor Pete Wilson from 1991 to 1999.
Ms. Brown continues to reside in Sacramento with her husband, Rick Brown, and two children.
She graduated from the University of Southern California in 1985 with a degree in international relations and politica
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Håkan Rylander
MANAGING DIRECTOR
SYSAV COMPANY GROUP
SWEDEN |
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Managing Director of the SYSAV Company Group, South Scania Waste Company, Sweden Since 1972, Hakan has been working within the field of waste mangement, dealing with all types of issues, especially within
recycling, waste treatment and landfilling. Operating all different kinds of waste treatment, including recycling centres, waste-to-energy at two big plants in Sweden, biological treatment and landfilling and the safe handling of hazardous waste. SYSAV is a regional company, owned by 14 municipalities, with a population of 635 000 inhabitants. Håkan Rylander is very active on a national Swedish level as well as on an international level.
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Martin Steiner
MANAGING DIRECTOR
TBU ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING CONSULTANTS
INNSBRUCK
AUSTRIA
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Since 1989, Martin has been the General Manager of TBU, an independent consultancy firm exclusively (mainly internationally) engaged in solid waste related issues. Project management in Central Europe, the Middle East and Australasia. Martin has 20 years experience in development of waste management concepts, design and upgrading of collection schemes and final treatment with focus on MBT systems; optimisation of existing facilities (eg. MBTs Erbenschwang and Bad Tölz/Bavaria, Hanover, Cascais/Portugal, ex-Maserati/ Milan), due diligence consultancies (MBTs Eastern Creek and Port Stephens/NSW, Abu Dhabi/UAE), design and start-up of new plants (eg. RDF plants Vienna and schwarze pumpe Germany, recovery & composting facility Istanbul).
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Bernard Warr
HEAD OF WASTE MANAGEMENT
CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL
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With the abolition of Humberside in 1996 Bernard moved to the (then) new unitary North East Lincolnshire Council as Head (later Director) of Waste and Recycling. The most notable achievement in this period was to develop a long-term waste strategy and undertake a procurement of a 25-year waste treatment contract. The Stallingborough WTE plant was the result of this operation. This plant has been noteworthy for being the first to get planning approval without a public enquiry and to be constructed and in operation within 5 years of contract closure. In March 2004 Bernard was appointed Head of Waste Management for Cambridgeshire County Council, is a chartered environmentalist and a corporate member of the Chartered Institute of Wastes Management.
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Susan Young
DIRECTOR OF THE SOLID WASTE & RECYCLING DIVISION OF PUBLIC WORKS
CITY OF MINNEAPOLIS
MINNESOTA
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Susan Young became the Director of the Solid Waste & Recycling Division of Public Works, City of Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA in 1991. Susan is responsible for the solid wastes management and Clean City activities for a city of over 350,000 residents. Minneapolis was found to have the highest rating of customer satisfaction of all US City services in two consecutive surveys.
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| CALIFORNIA INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT BOARD JOIN GLOBAL WASTE STRATEGIES SUMMIT . . More |
Speakers include:
Martin Brocklehurst, Head of Waste Strategy, Environment Agency
Bernard Warr MCIWM, Head of Waste Management, Cambridgeshire County Council
Susan Young, Director of the Solid Waste and Recycling Division, City of Minneapolis, USA
David Brooks, Head of New Technologies, Defra
Venetia Lannon, Vice President, New York City's Economic Development Corporation, USA
Håkan Rylander, Managing Director , The Solid Waste Company of Southwest Scania (SYSAV), SWEDEN
Carmen Cognetta, Counsel to the Sanitation and Solid Waste Management Committee, of the New York City Council, USA
Herman Huisman, Senior Advisor SenterNovem Waste Management Department, NETHERLANDS
Ben Jennings, Head of Waste, Devon County Council
Steve Read, Executive Director of Hampshire’s Project Integra
Wayman J. Pearson, Key Business Executive, City of Charlotte Solid Waste Services, USA
Paul Macken, Director of Waste Management, IOK, BELGIUM
Andrew Duckworth, Senior Buying Manager in Waste & Recycling, Tesco
Stephen Didsbury, Head of Waste Management, Bexley Councils
Ian Galbraith, Head of Waste Strategy, Glasgow City Council
Tim Judson, Procurement Director, Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority
Gerhard Lohe, Director, Lentjes, GERMANY
Melville Haggard, Waste Implementation Programme, Defra
Liz Poulter, Senior Waste Management Officer, Devon County Council
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