Global Asbestos Forum

2023 Conference speakers

Adam Harding

Adam Harding began his career as a science graduate, was employed as an environmental consultant and then subsequently as a surveyor and project manager. He

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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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Dragoş Pîslaru

Dragoş Pîslaru is a Member of the European Parliament, a member of the Renew Europe Group and the Chair for the EU Commission on Employment

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Federica Paglietti

Federica is the well-known Senior Researcher of the Italian INAIL and has worked as a researcher in the asbestos sector since 1996. Since 1999, she is

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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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Gordana Materljan LLM

Gordana Materljan, dipl. iur., LL.M., is a seasoned legal professional with a Juris Doctor degree from the Law Faculty of Rijeka, Croatia, and an LL.M.

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Graham Gould

Graham Gould is an experienced businessman and entrepreneur who was introduced to Thermal Recycling by the investors in the business.  He successfully built an international

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Guillermo Villamizar

Guillermo Villamizar is a Colombian visual artist and a former art critic. At some point he discovered the relations of asbestos magnate Ernest Stephan Schmidheiny

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Helen Bone

Helen turned 40 last year. She’s married to Mark and between them they have 3 daughters aged between 11, 15 and 18.  She qualified as a nurse in 2004

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Inez Postema

Founder and CEO Inez Postema –connector and innovator- has 30+ years of experience developing strategic advice & projects on sustainability to chemical industries and governmental

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Jesper Haunstoft

Fiberbinder® is a Danish company that has invented a new product, which effectively fixates asbestos fibers.  Fiberbinder’s main purposes are a) to improve work environment

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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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Kim Brislane

Kim Brislane has over 30 years experience and expertise in the NGO sector. She is the Chief Executive of the WHO’s Collaborating Centre for the

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Michael L. Armitage

Michael is an attorney and partner of Waters Kraus Paul & Siegel, a national U.S. toxic tort and catastrophic injury firm specializing in asbestos claims.

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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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Professor Arthur Frank

Professor Arthur Frank MD Ph.D. is trained as an occupational physician with a special interest in occupational cancers and occupational lung diseases, especially those caused

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Professor Jukka Takala

Professor Jukka Takala is renowned for his many contributions to the sciences of occupational health, specifically occupational diseases, and occupational ergonomics. With an illustrious career

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Professor Manuel Saba

Manuel Saba is a Civil Engineer with a Master’s degree in Structures and a PhD cum laude in Engineering, emphasis on Materials Science and Technology.

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Professor Steven Kao

Associate Professor Steven Kao is a Medical Oncology Senior Staff Specialist at the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse and a Honorary Visiting Medical Officer at Royal Prince

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Sean Fitzgerald

Sean Fitzgerald has decades of experience in the field of mineralogy, microscopy and spectroscopy. With his added knowledge as a research geologist and research in

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Stefan Kempeneers

Stefan Kempeneers studied chemistry and has been working at the intermunicipal organisation Interleuven in Belgium for 14 years. His primary focus has been on climate

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Sven de Mulder

Sven has a master of science industrial engineering and started as project manager waste removal and soil remediations at OVAM. Currently, he is the project

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Thomas Muller

After taking charge of the “Eurofins Asbestos Testing Est de France” laboratory, Thomas is today Deputy Managing Director of Eurofins Asbestos Testing France, the leading

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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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Tracey Wood

Tracey Wood is an advocate and co-founder of the Glynnis Gale Foundation, an organisation dedicated to addressing the devastating impact of asbestos mining and use

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Wayne Bagnall MBE

Wayne operates a specialist asbestos and demolition safety consultancy; Wayne Bagnall Consulting with a small team providing advice, training, and support to ensure safe and

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Zuhal Demir

A miner’s daughter and former lawyer, Zuhal Demir was elected as Member of the Belgian House of Representatives in 2010 for the New-Flemish Alliance (N-VA),

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More speakers to be announced soon...