Speakers for the Global Wastewater Technology Summit 2007 include.
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Brian Chambers
SENIOR TECHNICAL SPECIALIST (WASTEWATER TREATMENT)
WrC |
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Brian Chambers is a Chartered Chemical Engineer specialising in wastewater treatment. He has 30 years experience in the evaluation, selection and design of wastewater treatment processes and was responsible for the production of the WRc Activated Sludge Design Manual, which is widely used in the UK Water Industry. He has been involved in a large number of projects on process design and treatment strategies; evaluation of new plant and processes; optimisation of treatment costs and development of software for process simulation and design.
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Chris Chubb
POINT SOURCE POLICY MANAGER, WATER QUALITY FUNCTION
ENVIRONMENT PROTECTION DIRECTORATE
ENVIRONMENT AGENCY |
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Chris is Point Source Policy Manager working in the Environment Protection Directorate of the Environment Agency. His main role is in formulating Agency strategic and tactical policy to meet Government legal and policy objectives for control of wastewater discharges, primarily through discharge consents.
Chris is a Chartered Biologist and a Member of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, CIWEM. He is a member of the Scientific and Technical Advisory Group of IMP-Net, the Integrated Pollution Management Knowledge Transfer Network sponsored by the Department of Trade & Industry to promote innovation and communication between regulators, academia and industry. He sits on several Government WQ Directive and Pollution Control Working Groups.
Chris has been a water pollution regulator for over 30 years, the last 15 in National discharge control policy roles, involving extensive dialogue and negotiation with Government Departments and stakeholders, including the UK water industry.
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Mike Everest MSc, CEng, BSc.
MANAGING DIRECTOR
MENISCUS SYSTEMS LTD |
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In 1997 Mike Everest founded Meniscus Systems to provide a hosted web based data management service to operators of process plant with the majority of customers and work being within the water sector. In the last years Mike has undertaken projects with the following Water and Sewerage Companies namely: Wessex, Severn Trent, Thames, Anglian and Northumbrian Water. All projects were related to performance monitoring and optimisation of predominantly wastewater treatment plant. Currently Mike is working on the monitoring of energy performance at a Process Level at over 100 wastewater treatment plant.
In 2004, Meniscus secured a long term contract with Elexon (working with IMServ Europe) to provide data analysis services as part of the Profile Administrators role for forecasting half hour electricity demand for the whole of the UK non half hourly electricity demand – which represents around 50% of the UK electricity consumption.
Between 1990 and 1997 Mike was employed at Anglian Water Plc. Initially he worked for two years within the Business Development team and then as General Manager and then Managing Director of Alpheus Environmental Ltd.
Before joining Anglian Water, Mike was employed with the Industrial Energy Team of WS Atkins looking at improving energy efficiency of process plant, in particular refrigeration. Mike started his career with Flopetrol Johnston Schlumberger managing teams of engineers to carry out well testing and associated reservoir modelling. He was based in Singapore, Australia, China and South Africa offices.
Mike has an MBA from Imperial College London as well as a 1st class Honours degree in Fuel and Energy Engineering from Leeds University. Mike is a Chartered Member of the Institute of Energy
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Eugenio Giraldo, Ph.D.
TECHNICAL MANGER WASTEWATER PROJECTS, INNOVATION AND ENVIRONMENTAL STEWARDSHIP
AMERICAN WATER |
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Eugenio Giraldo is currently Technical Manager Wastewater Projects , Innovation and Environmental Stewardship at American Water in Voorhees, New Jersey. Besides, he is Adjunct Faculty of the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Rutgers University, the State University of New Jersey.
Previously Eugenio was the Chairman of the Department of Civil Engineering at Universidad de los Andes in Colombia.
Eugenio has a MSc and PhD from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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Dr David Hadley
SENIOR ECONOMIST
OFWAT |
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David Hadley is a senior economist in the Quality Enhancement Team at Ofwat with particular responsibilities relating to the implementation of the Water Framework Directive and the use of cost benefit analysis in PR09. Prior to working at Ofwat David was a researcher at the Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) at the University of East Anglia and worked on projects concerning environmental valuation techniques and integrated environmental assessment.
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Andy Harris
ASSISTANT SEWERAGE CONTRACT MANAGER
KELDA WATER SERVICES |
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Andy Harris joined the water industry in August 2004, working as a Process Scientist working on sewage treatment works in South Wales. In the past two and a half years, Andy has changed roles on a number of occasions working on projects including improving energy efficiency of the Ultra Violet disinfection plants, managing operational maintenance frequencies dependent on asset performance and risk, sewerage contracts management and finally in his current role working on minimising sewer flooding and pollution in a cost effective way.
Before beginning his working life Andy undertook a four year masters degree in chemistry at the University of Liverpool, for which he achieved a 1st class degree.
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Kirstie Hearn
CONSULTANT ENGINEER
WrC |
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Kirstie is a Chartered Chemical Engineer with 5 years experience of the water industry. Kirstie has been involved in a variety of water, wastewater treatment and sludge disposal projects. These include extensive treatability testing of chemical wastewaters; the design and commissioning of pilot plant for the expansion of full scale works: assessing the aerobic treatability of process wastewater to improve operating efficiency; characterisation of trade wastes and developing procedures for predicting odour emission rates from storing, processing and moving of sludge products to identify improvements in odour reduction.
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Andrew Heather
PRINCIPAL ADVISOR
MOTT MACDONALD Ltd |
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Andrew Heather is a Principal Advisor on water regulation at Mott MacDonald. He is a leading wastewater expert. He is a chartered environmentalist and has an engineering doctorate from Cranfield University. Andrew is particularly interested in future wastewater treatment requirements, and how the need for good ecological status may be achieved at minimum environmental cos.
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Didier Lahalle
SEWER EXPERT AND TECHNICAL MANAGER
LYONNAISE DES EAUX |
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Didier Lahalle is Sewer expert at Lyonnaise des Eaux in Paris since 2005. Before joining Lyonnaise des Eaux in Paris he was the Managing Director of Lyonnaise des Eaux in Mulhouse for three years.
Didier started his career at Lyonnaise des Eaux in 1985 as an engineer working on new projects for plants. Between 1989 and 1998 he gained international experience working for Aguas de Barcelona in Barcelona and Aguas Argentinas in Buenos Aires. In 1999 he returned to France and worked as the Managing Director for the International Technical Center for Sewerage of Suez environment in Bordeaux.
Didier has 13 years of experience in sewerage and drainage networks. He has built up a large know-how on different issues in this field: optimalisation of the network maintenance and asset management, analysis of the fluxes, modelling, and legal and contractual issues.
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Dr Norbert Jardin
RUHRVERBAND |
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Dr. Norbert Jardin studied civil engineering in Karlsruhe (D), Darmstadt (D), and Stanford (USA) Between 1990 and 1995, he was a research assistant at the Institute of Sanitary Engineering in Darmstadt. His Ph.D. in 1995 was on the interactions between enhanced biological phosphorus removal and sludge handling. Since 1995 Dr. Jardin has worked with Ruhrverband; one of the largest water authorities in Germany and the operator of 73 wastewater treatment plants and 530 stormwater facilities. Since 1997, he has been the Head of the Planning Department and responsible for all planning activities. Dr. Jardin was the recipient of the prestigious "Karl-Imhoff-Prize" of the German DWA in 1995 and the "Harrison Prescott Eddy Medal" of the Water Environment Federation, USA in 1997. Dr. Jardin is also the Vice-Chair of the IWA-International Programme Committee and secretary of the German IWA National Committee.
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Mike Jones CEng CEnv MICE MCIWEM
ASSOCIATE
ARUP |
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Mike Jones has been involved in the Water Industry for 26 years. He has very wide range of experience, covering in level from operator to designated Engineer, and in scope covering design, implementation and operation, in water supply, sewerage and treatment. He has also been involved in finance, regulation, procurement and IT. Mike is immediate past-Chair of CIWEM South Wales branch, is an Elected Member for ICE Cymru, a member of the Water Engineering Advisory Panel (WEAP) for CIRIA and an Infrastructure Sector Board Member for the Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN).
Starting as an operator for Wessex Water in 1980, Mike spent a number of years in Operations before moving to capital investments as a site engineer. He supervised a wide variety of project, including Water Treatment Works, water supply, sewerage and Wastewater Treatment. He then spent a number of years in the Contracts section, setting up both operational and investment contracts and framework. He was also heavily involved in new IT systems, wrote many key company procedures and led the capital allowances reporting for the company. Moving to design, he led teams on both new and upgraded Wastewater Treatment Works projects and sewerage schemes.
Mike moved to AMEC in 2000, and was part of the Alliance team that successfully delivered AMP3 for Dwr Cymru Welsh Water. He is currently seconded to Kelda Water Services to assist with strategies to reduce other cause flooding and pollution events. He also advises AMEC on water projects across the world. Since the beginning of March this year he is an Associate of Arup.
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Tim Mahoney
MANAGER ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING SERVICES
WIDE BAY WATER CORPORATION |
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Tim is a senior electrical engineer with experience in various industries, including mining and process plants, water supply, oil and gas and building services. His experience is in all phases of electrical project management and design includes conducting feasibility studies, cost control, design documentation, installation and commissioning. He has particular expertise in the design and operation of electrical control circuits, instrumentation, remote terminal unit (RTU) systems, programmable logic controller (PLC) systems, and supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems.
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Duncan Mara
PROFESSOR OF CIVIL ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS
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Duncan Mara, who is both a Chartered Engineer and a Chartered Biologist, has been Professor of Civil Engineering at the University of Leeds since 1979. He is also a visiting professor in environmental engineering at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia. Duncan is one of the country’s leading experts on natural wastewater treatment systems, particularly waste stabilization ponds which he has researched principally in Brazil, Colombia, Kenya and the UK. His research into pond systems in the UK has led to the development of aerated rock filters which, unlike constructed wetlands, are able to achieve low effluent ammonia levels in winter as well as in summer. Current research is centred on the elucidation of nitrogen removal mechanisms and pathways in pond systems.
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Gren Messham
DIRECTOR OF ASSET MANAGEMENT & TECHNOLOGY
SEVERN TRENT WATER |
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Gren is currently Severn Trent Water’s Director of Asset Management & Technology involved in both implementing the AMP4 investment plans and improving our knowledge of the relationship between asset management and customer serviceability, to inform the Company’s strategy and future regulatory plans.
Gren is also a Director of UKWIR, the water industry research organisation, and a member of the board of trustees of the American Water Works Association Research Foundation.
Gren has spent over 30 years in the industry in a variety of roles around investment and operation of water and wastewater assets mainly in the UK. International work has included consultancy in the Caribbean.
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David Pitt
MANAGING DIRECTOR
INFOTEC CONSULTING |
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David Pitt has worked as an Inspection Engineer for Thames Water and over the past 25 years built one of the most highly respected Underground Utility Mapping Companies “Infotec Consulting”.
With experiences that include the survey of some of the most complicated sites in the UK, David has helped to develop surveying systems and procedures with the most recent of these developments being the launch of the revolutionary “Pipetrack” Gyroscopic pipeline mapping system. David has also worked with clients to develop a specification that will provide a clear understanding and appreciation not only what is achievable, but a frank and honest appraisal of the limitations of the systems and techniques used by the Professional Utility Mapping companies.
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Dr Beth Reid
INNOVATION PROJECT MANAGER
ANGLIAN WATER |
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After completing an MSc at Cranfield University Beth Reid undertook an Engineering Doctorate (EngD) on Membrane Bioreactors based in a wastewater engineering company near Bath. Finishing this she moved into a role process commissioning a novel process (HBNR) in the South of England. Beth joined the Innovation department at Anglian Water in 2006 in the role of Innovation Project Manager.
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Professor Adrian Saul
PROFESSOR OF WATER ENGINEERING
UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD |
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Professor Adrian Saul is a Fellow of the Institution of Civil Engineers, the Yorkshire Water Professor of Water Engineering and the Director of Research of the Pennine Water Group at the University of Sheffield. He has over 25 years post- doctoral experience working in the areas of urban storm drainage and potable water distribution systems. He has worked closely with the UK Water Industry and he currently leads the Urban Flood Management Research Priority Area of the major Flood Risk Management Research Consortium (FRMRC), and was involved in the recently completed AUDACIOUS programme of research. He was a member of Floods and Coastal Defence Foresight Team that reported in 2004 with specialist interest in urban flooding, and a member of Thames Tideway Solutions Group. Much other work has been concerned with aspects of whole life costs associated with both potable distribution systems and sewerage systems, particularly an examination of asset performance and deterioration prediction. His research is funded by EPSRC, the UK Water Industry, the EU and the Environment Agency and has led to the publication of over 150 high quality journal and international conference papers. Professor Saul also has an excellent track record in the technology transfer of the products of this research into industry practice and software. He sits on the UK Water Industry Wastewater Planners user Group and the IWA/IAHR Sewer Processes working group.
The Pennine Water Group (PWG) has been established to undertake multidisciplinary research with a mission to advance engineering and scientific knowledge across all aspects of potable water, stormwater and wastewater service provision with a holistic, multi-disciplinary and integrated approach that spans disciplines, crosses institutional boundaries and engages in constructive partnerships with industry. The Group is supported by an EPSRC Platform grant and had a research turnover of £6M in the four years up to 2005. PWG comprises some 50 academic and other researchers at the Universities of Bradford and Sheffield. The strategic direction of the Group is advised by an International Advisory Committee.
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Nelly Icekson-Tal
DIRECTOR OF DAN REGION WASTEWATER TREATMENT & RECLAMATION PLANT
MEKOROT CENTRAL DISTRICT
ISRAEL
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Nelly Icekson-Tal is since 1997 the Director of Dan Region Unit, Mekorot Central District. The unit is a 340,000 m3/day wastewater treatment and reclamation plant. The unit includes 60 employees operating and maintaining a large activated sludge plant, and an aquifer recharge system for tertiary treatment of the effluents. She joined the Dan Region Unit in 1994 as a Process and Operations Engineer.
Before starting to work for Mekorot, Nelly held several positions. She has been instructing an Agro-ecology and Water Treatment course for the Israeli Foreign Ministry in Ecuador. Furthermore, she has managed the microbiological section for treatment of industrial and domestic sewage at Biotech Environmental Consultants.
Nelly has a M.Sc in Environmental Services and a B.sc in Biology. She has a list of publications and was invited to a number of international conferences to present a restoration system.
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Glenn Wilson
MANAGER SEWER ASSET MANAGEMENT & BACKLOG ASSET SERVICES
YARRA VALLEY WATER |
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Glenn Wilson is the Manager of Sewer Asset Management and Backlog at Yarra Valley Water. He has 7 years experience in the water industry and has an undergraduate degree in Civil Engineering and Business Administration. Glenn also has post graduate qualifications in project management and six sigma (which is a statistical based process improvement methodology).
In his time at Yarra Valley Water, Glenn has worked across a diverse range of projects ranging from water network planning, water quality, business process improvements, operations, sewerage network planning, and most recently sewerage asset management and the servicing of sewerage backlog areas (which are communities with failing on-site treatment systems).
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David Wiskar
EXECUTIVE MANAGER
WIDE BAY WATER CORPORATION |
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David Wiskar has a degree in business communications from the Queensland University of Technology. Since 1994 he has worked for the State Government and in partnership with a wide range of industries and local government stakeholders on a range of highly successful sustainability programs.
As the driving force behind the WaterWise program, David assisted local governments and water authorities to develop and implement effective water demand management programs that not only minimise resource use but also contribute to infrastructure cost savings.
David leads the demand management team for Wide bay Water Corporation and is currently working with water authorities throughout Australia.
David is author and co-author of a number of books and publications including: Best Practice Water Efficiency in the Hospitality Industry; WaterWise Plumbing; Powering to the Future - Smart Energy in Local Government. Recently David has joined Wide Bay Water Corporation with the aim of working with the team to assist the local government and water industries to continue their pursuit of sustainability objectives.
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