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Proposed Keynote speakers
Phillip Russell
Phillip Russell is Head of Wastes Management Services at West Sussex County Council. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Wastes Management and Director of the National Household Hazardous Waste Forum.
Phill was one of the architects of Project Integra in Hampshire and was Lead Negotiator for the long-term PFI Recycling Contract in West Sussex. Phill has also led on the implementation of the County Council’s long-term Material Resource Management Contract which will handle ‘non recyclable’ household waste.
This arrangement has used a new approach to funding referred to as ‘prudential borrowing – hybrid funding’.
Since March this year Phillip has taken up the post of Director of infrastructure in SWaMP2008. This body represents eight local Authorities in Northern Ireland and Phillip is leading the procurement of a major long-term wastes management treatment service to displace landfill.
Peter Gemell
Peter Gemell is a Director of Everything Infrastructure, an Australian-based consultancy specialising in transaction, project procurement and delivery, commercial issue resolution and facilitation.
Following 14 years in senior management for major contractors and developers, Peter became a consultant to provide strategic focussed commercial support to government and the private sector.
Since 1992, Peter has been the lead consultant for government teams in the procurement of over $20bn in infrastructure, numerous major service and facilities management contracts, led the government repair activities in response to the 1999 Sydney hailstorm and provided commercial and expert advice on numerous projects in Australia and Asia.
Chris Darwin
Chris Darwin is a great great grandson of Charles Darwin.
He has a BSc in Psychology and Physical Geography.
Two of his expeditions were world firsts: the first Round Britain Windsurf Expedition
and the Social Climbers’ expedition to host the World Highest Dinner Party at 6,800
metres; an event that was only marred by the wine freezing and two of the guests getting hypothermia during dessert. He has written two books and taken the photographs for three books.
He has raised over $1.3 million for charities. His first job was to start the first London
bicycle rickshaw company, an industry that is thriving today. He then went into
advertising. Since 1991 he has been a canyoning, abseiling and rock climbing guide in
the Blue Mountains.
His grandmother gave him some advice early in life, ‘If you cannot be first be different.’
I think you will agree that he took this advice seriously.
Julie Wilkinson
Julie Wilkinson is Strategy and Services Manager, Wastes Management Services, West Sussex County Council, England. She has BSc (Hons) in Management Sciences from the University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology. She has more than 15 years experience in all categories of municipal wastes management for West Sussex County Council.
In particular, she has won national recognition and awards for her work in waste prevention, communications, behaviour change and community engagement.
Julie has successfully delivered the current waste strategy for West Sussex and was instrumental in developing the pioneering public consultation programme that supported the strategy including long standing Community Involvement Groups.
Dr Juliana Mansvelt
Juliana Mansvelt is a senior lecturer in human geography, in the School of People, Environment and Planning at Massey University. She is author of 'Geographies of Consumption' (Sage Publications, 2005) and editor of the Green consumerism: An A-Z Guide (Sage, due for publication in 2010). She teaches on consumption and globalisation and was awarded a National Tertiary Teaching Award and the New Zealand Geographical Society Award for sustained excellence in 2006. Juliana is a qualitative researcher, and in recent years her research has centred on the consumption practices of older New Zealanders. She is currently a member of two New Zealand Foundation for Research, Science and Technology funded research teams investigating Living Standards of Elders (Massey University) and Elders' interactions with Organisations (Waikato University).
to present on Data Measurement, Forecasting
and/or Sustainability.
