Global Asbestos Forum

2016 Conference speakers

Arjan Endhoven

What does asbestos mean for the value of Industrial real estate? It’s a difficult question and one that Arjan Endhoven is highly qualified to answer. Arjan

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Claus Dyring

Claus Dyring will share with us what is happening on the asbestos front in Denmark. For Denmark was the first country in the EU to

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Dennis Kierkels

After a long career in the world of property reinvestment, Dennis Kierkels teamed up with Ruud Janssen, owner of asbestos removal company Asbestsanering Het Zuiden,

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Dr. Yvonne Waterman FFAAM

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

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Frank Peters

An asbestos fire is lighting up the midnight sky, alarms are sounding,the local inhabitants don’t know what to do… The local government wants to inform all

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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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Ingeborg Smit

Ingeborg Smit MSc MA works as a senior environmental specialist at Antea Group, where she specialises in asbestos investigation in soil. Ingeborg studied Environmental Sciences

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Jan Kees Gijsbers

Jan Kees Gijsbers works as a policy officer on environmental and technical issues at De Alliantie, which is a large housing association with 62,000 homes

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Jaroslaw Nyzio

Jarosław Nyzio will present on the Polish National Asbestos Eradication Program, which makes Poland one of the first countries in the EU to have such

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Jeroen Kersten

Nothing asbestos related ever happens (or should happen) at Schiphol Airport without being run by Jeroen Kersten first! An expert on asbestos and fire hazards,

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Jessy Middelkoop

Jetty Middelkoop will be our specialist speaker on asbestos fires! She studied at the Higher Laboratory School and the Agricultural University. She completed the officers’ training

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Jonathan Simnett

What does asbestos mean for private home owners? Nowhere in the world is there – sadly – as much expertise on this matter as in

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Kees van Dongen

Kees van Dongen has studied law at the university of Nijmegen and completed several studies in personal coaching. He has a lot of experience as

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Marcel Brouns

Why, exactly, is asbestos such a serious health hazard and the reason for worldwide commotion? What makes it so dangerous? Marcel Brouns will explain the answer

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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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Mavis Nye BCAh

Mavis Nye will speak of her five year fight with an invariably fatal asbestos cancer, mesothelioma, which usually claims its victims within a year of

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Ron Symonds

Ron Symonds MBA MSc FRICS CMIOSH MIIRSM will be a Session Moderator at the conference. In 2016, he gave a well-received presentation for the EAF,

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Terry Coleman

Terry Coleman, of Coleman Consulting Ltd and Pacifica Environmental Services Ltd Fiji, has decades of experience in both the demolition and asbestos industry. Known for

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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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More speakers to be announced soon...