Global Asbestos Forum

2024 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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Alex Hitch

Alex Hitch is an established health and safety professional in the UK and a member of IIRSM. He has been a safety practitioner for around

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Carlos Duane Salinas

Carlos Duane Salinas is from Houston, Texas. He is an Asbestos Technical Expert and Senior PLM Analyst at Eurofins BUILT Environment Testing in Pasadena, Texas.

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Charles Siegel

Charles Siegel is the head of the appellate and qui tam practices at Waters Kraus Paul & Siegel. He was born in Houston, Texas and

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Chris Bishop

As a Chartered Chemist, Chartered Quality Practitioner and Fellow of the Royal Society for Public Health, Chris Bishop has worked with UKATA since its inception

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Cristián Ramírez Lynch

Cristian initially trained in Law at the Universities of Desarrollo in Santiago, Chile, and Helsinki, Finland. After graduating in 1995 he worked for the United

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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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Elham Hosseini Beheshti

Currently, Dr. Beheshti serves as the Chief Scientist and Head of Scientific Innovation at the Asbestos and Dust Diseases Research Institute (ADDRI). With over a

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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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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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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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Jonathan Garreau

Jonathan Garreau is the Technical and Commercial Director of BCL Invent and responsible for the EasyGel Protect. He will be presenting on the latest advances

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Jonathan Grant

Jonathan’s professional journey in asbestos management began in 1995 with Hampshire County Council’s Scientific Service. In 1996, he earned the asbestos P-Cert (now W504) qualification,

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Jonathan Walsh

Jonathan Walsh is a Principal Lawyer at Australia largest plaintiff law firm, Maurice Blackburn Lawyers and leads the firms Asbestos, Silica and Occupational Diseases team. 

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Jose Blanco

Jose Blanco founded his first association when he was 17 years old, and since then always has being involved with associations, institutions and working groups.

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Kyoto Van Herreweghe

Kyoto Van Herreweghe is a member of our Real Estate, Environment/Energy & Regulatory practice and heads the Environmental and Energy Practice of Lydian. Kyoto has

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Liz Darlison MBE

Liz has enjoyed over 40 years of clinical practice at the University Hospitals of Leicester (UHL). After brief spells in vascular surgery and coronary care

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Marco Camboni

Marco Camboni is an environmental economist specialised in advising international, European and national policymakers on environmental policies. Marco is the Managing Director of RPA Europe

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Martin Hönig

Martin Hönig, PhD, has been working at WESSLING since 2017. Martin started as a Project Manager and later became an Expert. Currently, he is serving

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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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Morten Einshøj

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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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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Olha Bohdanova

Olha Bohdanova is a leading expert in occupational health and safety with a career spanning over two decades. She is the founder of the European

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Pascal Haller

Pascal Haller is the European Technical and Development Director for the European Eurofins laboratories. He has been a specialist in the various methods of asbestos

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Paul Signorelli OAM

Paul Signorelli OAM is the Executive Chairman of Doltone Hospitality Group, a leader in the hospitality industry with over 30 years of experience in venue

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Peter John Jacobs

Peter-John Jacobs is a highly experienced occupational hygienist with over 25 years in health, safety, and environmental management. Recognised as SAIOH Occupational Hygienist of the

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Peter Loockx

Peter Loockx is a researcher specializing in hazardous heritage, with a strong background in history and over two decades of expertise in asbestos management. Currently

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Philip Hibbs

Philip is an experienced occupational hygienist, currently based in Sydney.  He is a Fellow of the AIOH, a Certified Occupational Hygienist (COH)®, a Full Member of

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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 Roger Willey

Roger graduated with a Degree in Physics, followed by a Doctorate in Materials Science. After a period in industrial research he joined academia where his

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Professor Tim Driscoll

Tim Driscoll is an occupational epidemiologist and a specialist in occupational and environmental medicine and public health medicine.  He is Professor in the Sydney School

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Samantha Collins

Sam started in the asbestos industry approximately 20 years ago as an analyst and surveyor, undertaking building surveys, bulk analysis, auditing licensed removal contractors, and

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Sara Mason, Session Chair

Sara has over 37 years’ experience in the asbestos consultancy field including research, laboratory analysis, surveying and asbestos removal management, quality assurance, health and safety

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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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Tobias Hans

Tobias Hans navigated Germany’s federal state of Saarland through structural changes and crises, particularly in the automotive and steel industries. Under his leadership, the region

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Tom Eriksen, Session Chair

Tom Eriksen is a seasoned environmental consultant with over 38 years of experience in asbestos mapping, risk assessment, and environmental surveying. A pioneer in asbestos

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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 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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