Blacksmith's Technical Advisory Board

Nicholas Albergo

President, HAS Engineering & Scientists

Nicholas Albergo is the President and CEO of HSA Engineers & Scientists, and engineering consulting firm based in Florida. The firm has over 300 employees and ten offices located throughout the southeast United States. He received his undergraduate and graduate degrees in civil, environmental and chemical engineering. Currently, he serves as the ASTM E50.02 Vice Chair on Environmental Assessment, Risk Management and Corrective Action. Mr. Albergo possesses extensive domestic and international experience in contamination assessment, degradation and migration analysis, water/wastewater treatment and permitting, and soil & groundwater remedial strategy. He has chaired numerous scientific conferences, and has over 180 technical publications to his credit. He has provided expert testimony in many complicated litigation matters in the U.S. and abroad and also serves as an arbitrator on the AAA Roster of Neutrals.

Casey Bartrem

TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering, Inc.

Andrew Biaglow, Ph.D.

Associate Professor, United States Military Academy, West Point, NY

Dr. Biaglow has been on the faculty of West Point for 15 years, where he founded the chemical engineering program and serves as its director. Dr. Biaglow received his B.S. in chemical engineering from Case Western Reserve University and his M.S. and Ph.D. in chemical engineering from the University of Pennsylvania. He was a consultant to the Hoechst Celanese Corporation, where he worked on the development of highly acidic solid acids for use in polyethylene terephthalate production process. At Exxon Corporation, he was a consultant on the development, synthesis and characterization techniques for solid superacid catalysts for use in carbonylation reactions. In 2009, Dr. Biaglow submitted a patent disclosure for the development of novel heat pumping system for fractional distillation.

Thomas G. Boivin

President, Hatfield Consultants

Margrit von Braun, Ph.D. P.E.

Administrative Dean and Founder, Environmental Science Program, University of Idaho.

Dr. von Braun is the Dean of the College of Graduate Studies and has been on the University of Idaho faculty since 1980. She received her BS in Engineering Science and Mechanics at the Georgia Institute of Technology, her MCE in Civil Engineering at the University of Idaho, and her Ph.D. in Civil/Environmental Engineering at Washington State University. She was awarded the College of Engineering Outstanding Faculty Award in 1992. Dr. von Braun was a Kellogg National Leadership Fellow from 1993 to 1996. Her research areas include human health risk assessment, hazardous waste site characterization with a focus on sampling dust contaminated with heavy metals, and risk communication.

Pat Breysse, M.D.

Director of the Division of Environmental Health Engineering
Department of Environmental Health Sciences Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health

Pat Breysse is currently the Director of the Director of the Division of Environmental Health Engineering in the Department of Environmental Health Sciences at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also the Director of the Center for Childhood Asthma in the Urban Environment. This is a large multi-investigator research program funded by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, and D. National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences. Dr. Breysse is an active researcher with over 120 peerreviewed publications. His research focuses on air pollution and risk assessment. Dr. Breysse serves or has served on numerous government committees and panels including the U.S. National Toxicology Program, National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, and National Academy of Sciences.

Mary Jean Brown, ScD, RN

Chief of the Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch, U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; Adjunct Assistant Professor of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health.

Dr. Brown is the designated federal official for the CDC Advisory Committee on Childhood Lead Poisoning. She has spent more than 25 years working on childhood lead poisoning and its prevention. She conducted research designed to evaluate the impact of home visiting on the blood and environmental lead levels, a benefit-cost analysis of removing lead paint from housing before children are lead poisoned and a study of the effect of housing policies on the blood lead levels of poisoned children. She has also studied community-level housing factors that predict risk for nonfatal pediatric injuries.

The Healthy Homes and Lead Poisoning Prevention Branch provides technical assistance and advice internationally, especially to those countries with developing economies, related to healthier metal mining and smelting and clean up of ambient lead contamination.

Grant S. Bruce

Vice-President, Hatfield Consultants

Tim Brutus

Risk Management Specialist, New York City Department of Environmental Protection

Mr. Brutus is currently the Risk Management Specialist for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection for the downstate reservoirs that bring all of the water into New York City. His previous experience is on complex multi-technology remediation projects with CH2M Hill, Inc. He has extensive site investigation experience including, but not limited to, indoor and outdoor air sampling, multiple groundwater and soil sampling techniques and technologies. He has also contributed to other non-profit organizations restoring contaminated brownfields to their former use as wetlands and worked in analytical laboratories in New York and New Jersey.

Jack Caravanos, Ph.D., CIH, CSP

Director, MS/MPH program in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences Hunter College

Jack Caravanos is an Assistant Professor at Hunter College of the City University of New York where he directs the MS and MPH program in Environmental and Occupational Health Sciences. He received his Master of Science from Polytechnic University in NYC and proceeded to earn his Doctorate in Public Health (Env. Health) from Columbia University’s School of Public Health in 1984. Dr. Caravanos holds certification in industrial hygiene (CIH) and industrial safety (CSP) and prides himself as being an “environmental health practitioner”. He specializes in lead poisoning, mold contamination, asbestos and community environmental health risk.

Dr. Caravanos has extensive experience in a variety of urban environmental and industrial health problems and is often called upon to assist in environmental World’s Worst Pollution Problems 2010 67 health assessments (i.e. lead/zinc smelter in Mexico, health risks at the World Trade Center, ground water contamination in NJ and municipal landfill closures in Brooklyn). Presently he is on the technical advisory panel of the Citizens Advisory Committee for the Brooklyn-Queens Aquifer Feasibility Study (a NYC Department of Environmental Protection sponsored community action committee evaluating health risks associated with aquifer restoration).

Denny Dobbin

President, Society for Occupational and Environmental Health

Mr. Dobbin has over 40 years occupational hygiene experience as an officer in the US Public Health Service and as an independent. His assignments included seventeen years with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, US Centers for Diseases Control and Prevention (and its predecessors) where he managed research programs and developed policy including a two year assignment with the U.S. Congress in the Office of Technology Assessment. He worked on toxic chemical issues at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. He managed a Superfund grant program for model hazardous waste worker and emergency responder training for ten years at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, U.S. National Institutes of Health. Since 1997 he has worked independently on occupational, environmental and public health policy issues for non-profit, labor and other non-governmental organizations.

Mr. Dobbin is the president of the Society for Occupational and Environmental Health, an international society and is past Chair of the Board of Directors of the Association of Occupational and Environmental Clinics. He is past Chair of the Occupational Health and Safety Section, American Public Health Association. He was the 1998 honoree for the OHS/APHA Alice Hamilton award for lifetime achievement in occupational health. He is an elected fellow of the Collegium Ramazzini, an international occupational and environmental health honor society. Mr. Dobbin is a member of the American Conference of Governmental Industrial Hygienists where he served as recording secretary of the Physical Agents Threshold Limit Value committee and chaired the Computer and Nominating committees. He has participated in the American Academy of Industrial Hygiene specialist the National Public Health Policy Association and Society of Risk Assessment. He is a Certified Industrial Hygiene Specialist (ret).

Mr. Dobbin holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from the University of Idaho, and a M.Sc. in Occupational Hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, UK.

Bruce Forrest, M.D., MBA

President, Forrest & Company, Inc.

Bruce Forrest brings over 20 years of academic and pharmaceutical industry experience and has worked on over 60 publications with special emphasis on the development of vaccines and biologicals. Dr. Forrest is a medical graduate from the University of Adelaide in Australia, where he also pursued postgraduate doctoral research with an emphasis in mucosal immunology and vaccines. He has a Masters of Business Administration from the Warwick Business School in the United Kingdom.

During his period in the pharmaceutical industry, Dr. Forrest was the clinical leader for the successful NDA reviews and approvals of a live, tetravalent rotavirus vaccine in Europe; for the seven-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine in the US and Japan as well as managing closely the relationships with China on this approval; and overseeing the NDA approvals in Japan for etanercept and gemtuzumab ozogamicin, as well as submissions for bazedoxifiene and temsirolimus. He has designed and implemented extensive global clinical programs that have involved as many as 38 countries, and has extensive experience in the conduct of largescale efficacy trials including pneumococcal conjugate vaccine efficacy trials in native American communities and in Soweto, South Africa.

Josh Ginsberg, Ph.D.

Senior Vice President, Global Conservation Program, Wildlife Conservation Society

Joshua Ginsberg was born and raised in New York and is currently the Senior Vice President, Global Conservation Program, at the Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS). At WCS, Dr. Ginsberg has served as the Vice President for Conservation Operations (2004- 2009), as Director of the Asia and Pacific Program (1996 -2004), and as Acting Director of the WCS Africa Program for ten months in 2002. He received a B. Sc. from Yale, and holds an M.A. and Ph.D. from Princeton in Ecology and Evolution. Dr. Ginsberg spent 17 years as a field biologist/conservationist working in Asia and Africa. He serves on the NOAA/NMFS Hawaiian Monk Seal Recovery Team and was Chair of the Team from 2001-2007. Dr. Ginsberg has held faculty positions at Oxford University and University College London, and is an Adjunct Professor at Columbia University, where he teaches conservation biology and has supervised 16 Masters and four Ph. D. students. He is an author of over 50 reviewed papers, and has edited three books on wildlife conservation, ecology and evolution.

Dr. Yu Yang Gong

Managing Director, ESD China Limited

Dr Gong is currently the Managing Director of ESD China Limited, and has served as the Vice President for the Louis Berger Group (USA), and Regional Manager for ERM China. He is a licensed Professional Engineer registered in the United States with over 20 years of diverse consulting and academic experience, primarily in the USA and China.

He has his B.Sc. and M. Sc. from Beijing University in China, and Ph.D. from Buffalo University in USA. He has both industrial and academic experience in the following areas: Soil and Groundwater Pollution Control Regulation and Policy Development, Contaminated Site Investigation (SI/RI); Risk Assessment (e.g., RBCA), Site Remediation, Solid/ Hazardous Waste Management, Surface Water and Groundwater Quality Modeling, Contaminated Facility Decontamination, Waste Reduction and Reuse, and Asbestos/Lead Based Paint Abatement. His experience in hazardous waste and contaminated site regulation and policy development is best represented in his capacity serving as an international expert for World Bank, ADB and other international agencies (US TDA and Germany GTZ) and work in several developing and developed countries (USA, Israel, Sri Lanka, Japan, China etc).

Dr. Gong’s experience in Contaminated Site Investigation and Remediation includes, Environment Site Assessment and Characterization (ESA, PA/SI/ RI), Treatability/Pilot Study, FS, EE/CA, In-Situ and On-Site Remediation System Design and Costing, System Installation and O&M. He has 15 years hands on experience in technologies such as Incineration, Thermal Desorption, Chemical Oxidation & Reduction, SVE, Bioventing, Air Sparging, Bioslurping, Bioslurry, Soil Washing, Pump and Treat, Funnel and Gate (with treatment wall/barrier), Natural Attenuation, Institutional Control (such as capping); Excavation/ dredging and Secured Landfill Disposal. Dr Gong is a task member for the WEF book Hazardous Waste Treatment Process and has numerous publications/presentations in site investigation and remediation. His PhD thesis is on PCBs fate and transport. Currently he serves as a Technical Adviser for Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) for its POPs contaminated land cleanup program, participating PCB NIP review, contaminated facility decontamination guideline and POPs Contaminated Site Priority Action Plan preparations. He is also an invited technical advisor for the Guideline for Chongqing Contaminated Site Soil and Groundwater Investigation, Risk Assessment and Restoration. He serves in a similar capacity to Beijing City, Zhejiang and Jiangsu provinces.

David J. Green

Owner and CEO of Phoenix Soil, LLC; United Retek of CT LLC; American Lamp Recycling, LLC; Greenn Globe, LLC; and Jayjet Transportation, LLC.

David Green received his M.ed in chemistry and has owned and operated hazardous waste remediation companies since 1979. His companies have conducted in-situ and ex-situ treatments of hazardous materials on over 16,700 sites in the US, China, UK, and central Europe. The technologies incorporated include, low temperature thermal desorption, solidification/ stabilization and chemical treatment. David serves as Chairman of the Local Emergency Planning Commission and the Director of Operations for World’s Worst Pollution Problems 2010 69 Connecticut’s Department of Homeland Security USAR Team.

David Hanrahan, M.Sc.

Director of Global Programs, the Blacksmith Institute

David Hanrahan oversees the technical design and implementation for Blacksmith of over 40 projects in 14 countries. Prior to joining Blacksmith, David worked at the World Bank for twelve years on a broad range of environmental operations and issues, across all the Bank’s regions. During much of this time he was based in the central Environment Department where he held technical and managerial positions and participated in and led teams on analytical work and lending operations.

Before joining the World Bank, he had twenty years of experience in international consultancy, during which time he also earned postgraduate degrees in policy analysis and in environmental economics. His professional career began in Britain in water resources for a major international engineering consultant. He then moved to Australia to build the local branch of that firm, where he helped to develop a broad and varied practice for public and private sector clients. He later returned to the UK and became Development Director for an environmental consultancy and subsequently Business Manager for a firm of applied economics consultants. In 1994 he was recruited by the World Bank to join its expanding Environment Department.

David Hunter, Sc.D.

Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard University School of Public Health

Dr. Hunter received an M.B.B.S. (Australian Medical Degree) from the University of Sydney. He continued his formal education at Harvard University, receiving his Sc.D. in 1988. Dr. Hunter is a Professor of Epidemiology and Nutrition, Harvard School of Public Health. Dr. Hunter is involved with several large, population-based cohort studies, including the Nurses’ Health Study (I and II), Health Professionals Followup Study, and the Physicians’ Health Study. Among the goals of these large cohort studies is to investigate gene-environment interactions, including the impact of lifestyle factors, on disease causation. Disease endpoints of interest for some of these cohorts include cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and osteoporosis. He is also involved in long running studies of nutritional influences on HIV progression in Tanzania.

Eric Johnson

Member of the Board of Trustees, Green Cross Switzerland

Eric Johnson has a broad perspective on the environment and chemical contamination. He began his career as an editor of Chemical Engineering and Chemical Week magazines. He then became involved in the selection, assessment and remediation of industrial sites. One of his major projects was the remediation and conversion of a former aluminum smelter to alternate land-use. Mr. Robinson was an early adopter of life-cycle assessment. That, combined with his experience in environmental impact assessment, led to his 1996 appointment as editor of Environmental Impact Assessment Review – a leading peer-reviewed journal in the field.

Mr. Johnson has analyzed numerous environmental issues that touch on the chemical industry including: alternative fuels, brominated flame retardants, CFCs and replacements, ecolabels (for detergents, furniture polishes, hairsprays and personal computers), GHG emissions and trading, plastics recycling, PVC and the chlorine-chain, REACH, socially-responsible investing, tri-butyl tins and TRI and environmental reporting. In 1994 he organized the first Responsible Care conference for plant managers in Europe. Currently, his main work is in comparing the carbon footprints of various sources of energy. He has worked internationally, concentrating mainly on the US and Europe. Mr. Johnson is an active member of the Board of Green Cross Switzerland.

Barbara Jones, M.Sc.

Principal, Cardinal Resources

Donald E. Jones

Founder of Quality Environmental Solutions, Inc.

Donald Jones is the founder of Quality Environmental Solutions, Inc. and was previously Director of the IT Corporation national program for clients with hydrocarbon-related environmental problems and development of environmental management programs. He has served as an elected Board of Health member and was appointed as Right-To- Know and Hazardous Waste Coordinator in the State of Massachusetts. Mr. Jones currently serves on the Local Water Board, as technical consultant to the local Facilities Board and provides editorial review of technical papers and publications for the National Ground Water Association.

Mukesh Khare , Ph.D.

Professor, Department of Civil Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India - Former Atlantic LNG Chair Professor in Environmental Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, University of West Indies, St Augustine, Trinidad and
Tobago - Fellow, Wessex Institute of Great Britain - Principal Member, International Sustainable Technological Association (ISTA), Arizona State University, USA - Principal Reviewer, Research Management Group USA - Member Research Review Committee, National Research Foundation, Pretoria, South Africa - Consultant (Air Pollution), Government of Delhi, India

Prof. Mukesh Khare is serving as Professor in the Department of Civil Engineering at Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, India. Professor Khare received his PhD in Faculty of Engineering (Specialized in Air Quality) from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK in 1989. He has published to date more than 35 refereed research articles in professional journals, 40 articles in refereed conferences/seminars, 2 books: Modeling Vehicular Exhaust Emissions, WIT Press, UK; Artificial Neural Networks in Vehicular Pollution Modeling, Springer, USA; 03 contributed chapters in books/handbooks, published by WIT Press, and Elsevier, USA. Additionally, he has published about 20 technical reports on research/consultancies conducted for government agencies and private industries. Prof. Khare continues to serve as peer reviewer for several government ministries grants programs and state programs and consultant/advisor to the Government of Delhi, India. He is also serving as reviewer to many journals and publishing houses. Prof. Khare is in the editorial board of International Journal of Environment and Waste Management and Guest Editing one of its special issues on Urban Air Pollution, Control and Management.

Prof. Khare’s research has focused on local scale urban air quality modeling targeting the predictions of episodes at urban roads/intersections, mainly arising out from undefined low-level/line sources. Current research areas include formulation of air quality models and their validation; indoor air quality in airconditioned and naturally ventilated buildings and exposure assessment of related pollutants on indoor occupants. He has also worked extensively in the area of industrial wastewater treatment particularly application of Rotating Biological Contactor Systems to treat industrial and sewage wastes. Prof. Khare and his research group have carried out a number of on-site assessments of air pollutants and designed a number of effluent treatment plants to treat the corresponding wastes from various types of industries.

Philip J. Landrigan, M.D., M.Sc.

Director, Center for Children’s Health and the Environment, - Chair, Department of Community and Preventive Medicine, and - Director, Environmental and Occupational Medicine, Mount Sinai School of Medicine

Dr. Landrigan is a pediatrician and an international leader in public health and preventive medicine. Dr. Landrigan’s pioneering research on the effects of lead poisoning in children led the US government to mandate removal of lead from gasoline and paint, actions that have produced a 90% decline in incidence of childhood lead poisoning over the past 25 years. His leadership of a National Academy of Sciences Committee on pesticides in children’s diets generated World’s Worst Pollution Problems 2010 71 widespread understanding that children are uniquely vulnerable to toxic chemicals in the environment. The findings of the NAS Committee secured passage of the Food Quality Protection Act in 1996, a major US federal pesticide law and the first environmental statute to contain specific protections for infants and children. Dr. Landrigan served as Senior Advisor to the US Environmental Protection Agency where he was instrumental in helping to establish the EPA’s Office of Children’s Health Protection. Dr. Landrigan has been a leader in developing the National Children’s Study, the largest study of children’s health and the environment ever launched in the United States.

Ian von Lindern, Ph.D.

CEO and Chairman, Terra Graphics Environmental Engineering, Inc.

Dr. Ian von Lindern is Chairman and CEO of TerraGraphics Environmental Engineering in Moscow, Idaho. He holds a B.S. in Chemical Engineering from Carnegie-Mellon University and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in Environmental Science and Engineering from Yale University. Dr. von Lindern has 35 years of national and international environmental engineering/science experience. He has directed over 40 major health/ environmental investigations involving primary and secondary smelters and battery processors, landfills and uranium mill tailings at several major mining/ smelting sites in the U.S. including ASARCO/Tacoma, WA; East Helena and Butte/Anaconda in MT; and internationally in North America, Asia, Africa, Australia and Latin America. Dr. von Lindern has worked for the State of Idaho on various projects involving the Bunker Hill/Coeur d’Alene Basin Hill Superfund Site for over 30 years as the lead Risk Assessor. In that capacity he had extensive experience in applying exposure and bio-kinetic lead modeling in assessing human health risk, developing cleanup criteria and remedial design. He is currently Senior Project Manager implementing the human health cleanup at the Idaho Superfund Site. He is currently involved in an International Initiative with the University of Idaho and non-government organizations to adapt the lead health response lessons learned in the U.S. to developing countries. Five international cleanup projects are underway including China, Russia, the Dominican Republic and Dakar, Senegal, and Zamfara, Nigeria, where severe mortality and morbidity effects occurred in recent years. Dr. von Lindern has served as a U.S. EPA Science Advisory Board (SAB) Member on five occasions reviewing the scientific basis for lead regulatory policy.

Ira May

Senior Geologist ERT Inc (www.ertcorp.com) in Laurel, MD.

Mr May recently retired from the US Army Environmental Center where he was the Chief Geologist for over 20 years. He has extensive experience with the cleanup of hazardous wastes at military facilities throughout the United States. He is presently working on the cleanup of ranges where munitions were used throughout the world. He was in charge of the Army’s groundwater pump and treat optimization efforts. He is an expert on the analysis of efficacy of remediation efforts. He has been involved in the cleanup of and the development of new technologies for Superfund cleanups for almost 30 years. He has been involved as a technical advisor to Blacksmith Institute with projects in the Philippines and the Ukraine.

Jerome A. Paulson, M.D.

Associate Professor of Pediatrics, George Washington University School of Medicine & Health Sciences - Associate Professor of Prevention and Community Health and Research - Associate Professor of Environmental & Occupational Health, George
Washington School of Public Health and Health Services.

In addition to his work at George Washington University, Dr. Paulson is the Medical Director for National and Global Affairs of the Children’s Health Advocacy Institute at the Children’s National Medical Center. Dr. Paulson is also one of the co-directors of the Mid-Atlantic Center for Children’s Health and the Environment.

Dr. Paulson serves on the American Academy of Pediatrics Committee on Environmental Health and the Children’s Health Protection Advisory Committee for the US Environmental Protection Agency. He also serves on the Pediatric Medical Care Committee of the National Commission on Children and Disasters and part of the National Conversation on Public Health and Chemical Exposures organized by the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry. In October 2004 he was a Dozor Visiting Professor at Ben Gurion University in Beer Sheva, Israel. He lectured there and throughout Israel on children’s environmental health. He was a recipient of a Soros Advocacy Fellowship for Physicians from the Open Society Institute and worked with the Children’s Environmental Health Network, and has also served as a special assistant to the director of the National Center on Environmental Health of the CDC working on children’s environmental health issues. He has developed several new courses for the GW School of Public Health about Children’s Health and the Environment. He is the editor of the October, 2001 and the February and April 2007 editions of Pediatric Clinics of North America on children’s environmental health. He has served on numerous boards and committees related to children’s environmental health.

Anne Riederer, Sc.D.

AAAS Science and Technology Policy Fellow, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency

Dr. Riederer is currently an American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Science and Technology Policy Fellow hosted by the Assistant Administrator of the Office of Research and Development at the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. She is also adjunct faculty in the Department of Environmental Health at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University (Atlanta, USA), where she served as Research Assistant Professor and Co-Director the Global Environmental Health Program from 2004-2010. She received her B.S. in Neuroscience from Brown University in 1989, an M.S. in Foreign Service from Georgetown University in 1991, and an Sc.D. in Environmental Science and Engineering from Harvard School of Public Health in 2004. Her research focuses on assessing exposures of children and women of childbearing age to developmental neurotoxins, including pesticides, heavy metals, and other environmental contaminants. From 1998-2004, Dr. Riederer held a U.S. Superfund Basic Research Program Training Fellowship to study lead, mercury and PCB exposures at the former Clark Air Base, Philippines. From 1991-1998, she worked for Hagler Bailly Consulting on air, water and waste regulatory program development for the Philippines, Indonesia, Viet Nam, Mexico, and Egypt for various biand multilateral development agencies. She directed the company’s Manila, Philippines office from 1994-1998.

Dave Richards

Independent Environmental Adviser

David Richards works as an independent environmental adviser in the areas of environmental policy and strategy, external engagement and multistakeholder initiatives, and strategic environmental risk management. He spent 32 years in the mining industry, 19 of those at operating mines and advanced development projects. For 28 years he was an employee of Rio Tinto. His background is in economic geology and geochemistry, and since 1992 he has worked in corporate environmental policy development and assurance. He has been involved in several multi-stakeholder initiatives including the Mining, Minerals and Sustainable Development (MMSD) project (2000 – 2002), the IUCN-ICMM Dialogue (2002 – present), the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (2004 – 2005), the Post Mining Alliance (2005 – present) and the Business & Biodiversity Offset Programme (BBOP) (2007 – present). He helped to develop geochemical Risk Assessment tools and has extensive experience in site-based strategic multidisciplinary risk reviews.

Dr. Stephan Robinson

Unit Manager (Water, Legacy), Green Cross Switzerland

Stephan Robinson holds a Ph.D. in experimental nuclear physics from Basel University. In 1994, he joined Green Cross Switzerland where he first worked as International Director of its Legacy of the Cold War Programme. He mainly worked on the facilitation of chemical weapons destruction in both Russia and the U.S., which included the operation of a network of up to twelve local and regional public outreach offices, the organization of a Russian National Dialogue on chemical weapons destruction, but also practical community projects aimed at improving emergency preparedness and the health infrastructure. Other activities include the clean-up of a major oil spill at a nuclear missile site in the Baltic area; the scientific investigation of a site of former chemical weapons World’s Worst Pollution Problems 2010 73 destruction (open pit burning site); different risk assessments of military facilities; an inventory of the Soviet nuclear legacy; and epidemiological studies of public health impacts by chemical weapons storage. With chemical weapons destruction progressing, he changed responsibilities in 2008. He is today coordinating different GEF projects in the Former Soviet Union addressing together with UN organisations, governments, and other stakeholders the legacy of the massive use of pesticides, and works on a series of other pollution-related issues (heavy metals, mining tailings).

Paul Roux

Chairman, Roux Associates, Inc. (www.rouxinc.com)

Paul Roux received an M.A. in Geology from Queens College, City University of New York, and a B.S. in Engineering Science from C.W. Post College, Long Island University. He is a certified Professional Geologist and Hydro geologist, has served on the Editorial Board of Ground Water Monitoring and Remediation and currently serves on the Board of Registration of the American Institute of Hydrology.

Mr. Roux has over 35 years of experience with contaminated soil and groundwater remediation at industrial plants and landfills. He has worked at a number of the largest and most complex Superfund sites in the US, as well as major chemical and petroleum facilities. Roux Associates, which was founded in 1981, currently has more than 230 professional employees in five offices. The firm provides a broad range of consulting and project management services to solve complex environmental, health, and safety problems associated with air, water, land and interior pollution; hazardous materials; and toxic waste treatment and disposal. Roux Associates was twice named one of America’s 500 fastest-growing private companies by Inc. Magazine and, since 1996, has been listed as one of the Top 200 Environmental Consulting Firms by Engineering News Record.

Leona D. Samson, Ph.D.

Ellison American Cancer Society Research Professor - Director, Center for Environmental Health Sciences - Professor of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

Leona Samson received her Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from University College, London University, and received postdoctoral training in the United States at UCSF and UC Berkeley. After serving on the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health for eighteen years, she joined the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001 as a Professor of Biological Engineering and the Director of the Center for Environmental Health Sciences. Dr. Samson’s research has focused on how cells, tissues and animals respond to environmental toxicants. Dr. Samson has been the recipient of numerous awards during her career, including the Burroughs Wellcome Toxicology Scholar Award (1993-98); the Charlotte Friend Women in Cancer Research Award (2000); the Environmental Mutagen Society Annual Award for Research Excellence (2001). In 2001, Dr. Samson was named the American Cancer Society Research Professor, one of the most prestigious awards given by the society. The ACS Professorship was subsequently underwritten by the Ellison Foundation of Massachusetts. In 2003, she was elected as a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academies of Science, and she will become the President of the Environmental Mutagen Society in 2004.

Kelvin Telmer, Ph.D

Executive Director, Artisanal Gold Council; Chair, IUGS-GEM - Professor, SEOS, University of Victoria

Dr. Telmer has worked for more than 20 years as an environmental geochemist and geologist for mining and consulting companies and academia in Latin America, Asia, and Africa, as well as in Canada, the U.S. and Europe. He directs The Artisanal Gold Council (www.artisanalgold.org), which he founded to improve the environment and livelihoods of small-scale gold mining communities (ASGM). He does this through innovative field programs and educational campaigns. He is an internationally recognized leader in this field and collaborates with the United Nations, World Bank, private sector, governments, and civil society to develop technologies, programs and policies to reduce the use of mercury while improving gold recovery in small-scale mining. Dr. Telmer has designed and implemented mercury emissions reduction technologies and introduced a variety of mineral processing techniques to improve gold recovery. Dr. Telmer is currently a principal consultant for the United Nations Environment Programme’s Global Mercury Partnership on ASGM and participates in the development of the UN’s forthcoming global mercury treaty.

Brian Wilson

Program Manager International Lead Management CenterMRSC - Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Brian Wilson is the Program Manager for the International Lead Management Center located in North Carolina, USA. He is responsible for the design and implementation of multi-stakeholder lead risk reduction programs. Before joining the ILMC he worked for 15 years with the oil industry followed by 18 years with MIM Holdings in the Metals Industry. He left the United Kingdom and MIM UK as the Group Personnel Manager in 1996 to join ILMC after a career that spanned smelter production, industrial relations and human resource management. Brian has worked with UNEP, UNCTAD and the Basel Secretariat on Lead Risk Reduction and Recycling projects in the Far East, Russia, Central and South America, the Caribbean and West Africa.

Jay Vandeven, MS.

Principal, ENVIRON International Corporation

Jay Vandeven is a Principal in the Arlington, VA office of ENVIRON International Corporation. ENVIRON is an international consultancy, providing chemical risk management services to public and private sector clients from a platform of more than 70 offices worldwide. He has been a consulting environmental engineer for twenty-five years, focusing on the sources, fate and transport, and remediation of chemical and radiological compounds in all environmental media. Mr. Vandeven has worked on some of the largest Superfund sites in the U.S. as well as contaminated sites in Eastern Europe. He routinely counsels clients on negotiations with regulatory authorities and represents clients in environmental disputes. Mr. Vandeven is also a member of the committee that administers the ENVIRON Foundation, an internally managed philanthropic initiative that provides financial assistance to projects worldwide that promote protection of human health and a sustainable global environment, particularly with respect to the impact of chemicals and society’s use of the Earth’s resources.