Global Asbestos Forum

2015 Conference speakers

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

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Barry Robson

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

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Dilan Yesilyurt

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

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Dr. Herm Zweerts

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

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Gonzalo Zufia

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

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Harry Vonk

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

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Joris Gribnau M.Sc.

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

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Linda Reinstein

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

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Marcelis Boereboom M.Sc.

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

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Mark Winter

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

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Mark Wit B.Sc.

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.

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Nick Garland

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

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Prof. Dr. Thomas Kraus

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

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Ruud Janssen

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

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Tony Rich

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

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Wayne Williams

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

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More speakers to be announced soon...