
Arco Engelen
Arco is the owner of HumanNova training, an occupational hygienist and a qualified asbestos expert. He also acts as Examiner for the Post-Secondary Safety Science

Arco is the owner of HumanNova training, an occupational hygienist and a qualified asbestos expert. He also acts as Examiner for the Post-Secondary Safety Science

Mr Barry Robson has been President of the Asbestos Diseases Foundation of Australia since 2003 and was a delegate between 1995 and 2003. From 1995

Christian Lahnstein has studied law in Tubingen, Munich, Genève and Salamanca. As lawyer he worked for Munich Re in Colombia (from 1982 to 1988) and

Dilan works as an environmental engineer and Deputy Expert at the Turkish Occupational Health and Safety Institute of Republic of Turkey. She graduated from Middle

Herm Zweerts studied at both the University of Amsterdam and the KU Leuven in Belgium, enabling him to combine his scientific background of soil science

Retired Assistant Surgeon General of the United States of America and retired Acting Director of NIOSH Dr. Richard Lemen is a former Assistant Surgeon General

Since 2000, Yvonne Waterman has visited and spoken at many asbestos conferences worldwide, from Washington to Yokohama and from Ottawa to Athens. All the time, she

Gonzalo Zufia has a wide knowledge of asbestos from the removal/abatement perspective. For he is the President of the Spanish Asbestos Removal Contractors Association and

Harry Vonk will be presenting on his asbestos awareness museum in Delft, the first such in the world and recently founded by the International Asbestos

Joris Gribnau graduated from Delft University of Technology as a civil engineer. He believes in safeguarding a healthy and pleasant working and living environment for

Linda Reinstein became a public health advocate after her husband, Alan, was diagnosed with mesothelioma in 2003. Realising that this fatal disease kills many people

Lydia has been working as personal injury lawyer since 1992, at first for the law firm Oudenoord (the law firm used by Dutch labour union

Directorate General for Employment at the Dutch Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment. The Ministry of Social Affairs and Employment is headed by political and

Mark Winter has seen a fair bit of the world. Born in England, he has worked long stints in both South Africa and Australia. After

Mark Wit studied building technology at Delft Technical University, the Netherlands, and has considerable experience as a project manager in building engineering and fire safety.

With over twenty years’ experience under his belt, Nick provides health and safety management advice, asbestos audit, expert witness testimony, competence and compliance systems to

Professor for Occupational Medicine at RWTH Aachen University and Director of the Institute and Out-patient Clinic of Occupational Medicine at the University Hospital RWTH Aachen

Gert van der Laan has dedicated his career to workers’ health. He is a founder of the Netherlands Centre of Occupational Diseases (Nederlands Centrum voor

Professor Nico van Zandwijk will speak on the developments in treating malignant mesothelioma, a subject of increasing promise. In 2007, he joined ADRI after a

After extensive experience in demolition and asbestos abatement, Ruud Janssen founded his own company in 2010. He has a particular interest in the innovation of

Tony Rich, also known under his alias Asbestos Hunter, has literally served ‘in the trenches’ as an industrial hygienist and environmental technician in the consulting

Wayne Williams has over 25 years’ experience running his own business, DMW Environmental Safety, in the field of health & safety and asbestos management to