Global Asbestos Forum

2025 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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Baptiste Davril

Baptiste Davril has been an expert in multi-matrix asbestos analysis at Eurofins France for the past 10 years. He has contributed to numerous innovative developments,

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Beate Diseth

Beate Diseth, of the Inkluderende Arbeidsliv, works in the project team of a government funded program for the Norwegian building and construction industry. The objective

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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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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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Eirik Wærner

Eirik Wærner works as an environmental consultant at Norwegian company Multiconsult, specialising in construction and demolition waste, environmental and asbestos mapping. He has 40 years

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Frank Ehrenfeld

Frank Ehrenfeld, Director of Technical Services, Eurofins Built Environment Testing:  Chair: ASTM International D22 Air Quality D22.07 Asbestos Sampling and Analysis Committee. ASTM Fellow. US

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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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Hans Thore Smedbold

Hans Thore Smedbold is a certified occupational hygienist with more than 30 years’ experience in investigation, research, and teaching. He has held roles at St.

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Harald Blytt

Harald Blytt, Head of the Building Technology Department at Bergen Municipality Bergen Municipality has experienced several cases of asbestos being found, which has resulted in

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Harminder Bains

Harminder Bains is a lawyer, Partner and Joint Head of Asbestos & Industrial Injuries Department at Leigh Day, a leading law firm based in the

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Kari Mork

Kari Mork has worked at the Norwegian Labour Inspection Authority as an occupational hygienist for many years. She has extensive experience with asbestos issues through

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Linda Marie Bjelde

Projectleader with Urban Reuse Norway AS / Avd. BEVAR since 2010. 16 years experience working in the construction business, with everything from minor demolitions work

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Markus Sommer

Markus Sommer’s father died from asbestos. It made him acutely aware of the dangers of carcinogenic substances in the workplace. When he started his job,

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Mathew Werfel

Mathew Werfel is a dedicated asbestos and dust disease advocate with over 20 years of experience in government, policy, and stakeholder engagement, leading national initiatives

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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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Nathalie Camus

Experienced asbestos management and compliance specialist with over 20 years in the industry, spanning roles in protection equipment manufacturing, waste management, and asbestos project consultancy.

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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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Paul Sandanger

Paul Sandanger, 75 years old, has worked for 13 years as a department manager in the electrical department at a shipyard. This involved much new

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Phillip Hazelton

Phillip has worked in international development, labour issues and health for 35 years. He has been based in SE Asia for 16 of those years,

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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 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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Robin Bennett

Robin Bennett is CEO at Start Software, the developers of the market-leading Alpha Tracker® asbestos system. Working with asbestos consultancies and their clients for 20

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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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Sergé Venken

Sergé Venken is the proud owner of Miasma, a Belgian environmental consultancy firm which offers both scientific and practical advice, based on taking samples of

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Stefan Barker

Stefan has 20 years of experience in the asbestos consultancy and removal industries, having built a strong foundation as a skilled surveyor, analyst and project

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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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Torunn Ervik

Torunn Ervik has a background in materials technology, with over ten years of experience as a researcher at the Norwegian Institute of Occupational Health. Her

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Vidar Larsen

Vidar Larsen started working as a Safety Representativ from The Norwegian Trade Union, Fellesforbundet, 25 years ago. In his work he visit buildingsites looking for

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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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