Andrew Baskin
Planning and site selection issues for waste infrastructure facilities

Andrew Baskin has fifteen years experience in a consultancy and local government background. He is the Director of Waste and Energy with RPS Consulting Engineers and Chairman of the RPS Irish Waste sector group. Andrew has been extensively involved in the waste management planning process. Specific experience with waste management groups has included acting as the Project Director for the development of Waste Management Plans for the Southern Waste Management Partnership (SWaMP), North West Region Waste Management Group (NWRWMG), Donegal County Council and the Strategic Outline Case (SOC) for arc21.

Paul Dunn
Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority case study:
The role of partnerships in delivering waste infrastructure

Paul Dunn is Executive Director of the Greater Manchester Waste Disposal Authority (GMWDA). He has eighteen years experience in waste management and since 2003 has worked for the GMWDA, producing a Joint Municipal Waste Management Strategy, dealing with Landfill Allowance Trading Scheme issues and procurement through Private Finance Initiative for the next 25 years, from Outline Business Case to award of the contract. The largest waste contract in Western Europe worth £3.8 billion to the contractor including £631m capital investment in facilities.

Gev Eduljee
Resource management and the circular economy

Gev Eduljee is Director of External Affairs at SITA UK. He worked in hazardous waste treatment before spending 15 years at environmental consultancy ERM. He joined SITA in 2001, with oversight for environmental, EMS and heath & safety functions. He has published widely on waste-related issues, including on incineration and public health risk assessment. He was a member of Defra's Advisory Committee on Hazardous Substances.

Michael Gerrard
Panel Discussion

Michael Gerrard joined Partnerships UK (PUK) at its formation in 2000 and became Deputy CEO in 2002. He has 20 years of experience in developing and implementing complex projects in the private sector and, since 1998, within the UK public sector. These projects are spread across the infrastructure, accommodation, utilities, waste and IT sectors and include several undertaken as joint ventures between the public and private sectors. His responsibilities at PUK include the environmental sector, projects in Scotland and Wales and PUK's support for overseas Governments. He is a member of Defra's Waste Infrastructure Development Programme Executive board and the Welsh Assembly Government Waste Programme board. He is also a member of the Local Partnerships Management board.

Dolores Kelly, MLA
The role of the NI Assembly Environment Committee in relation to waste

Dolores Kelly, MLA has been Chairperson of the Northern Ireland Assembly's Environment Committee since July 2009. She is an SDLP MLA for the Upper Bann constituency, first elected to the Assembly in the 2003 elections, and re-elected in 2007. She has been a member of Craigavon Borough Council since 1993 and was the first nationalist mayor of the borough in 1999- 2000. Prior to moving into full-time politics, she had a career in the health service.

Trevor Knipe
EU briefing: European waste management policy

Trevor Knipe joined NISP as Director for Northern Ireland to help NI businesses become more resource efficient and competitive. He has extensive knowledge of industry in NI and is well known in Government circles having been involved in the development of the NI Waste Management and Sustainable Development Strategies and represented industry interests in the development of environmental legislation. He is member of CIWM, a Chartered Environmentalist and past Chair of IEMA in Northern Ireland.

Alan McVicker
Supporting the delivery of waste infrastructure projects

Alan McVicker is the Director of the Waste Programme Delivery Support Unit (PDSU). Appointed in January 2008, he is responsible for managing all PDSU activities in support of Northern Ireland's three waste management groups and central government. Central and local government are working together to deliver Northern Ireland's waste management strategy, a key strand of which is to deliver waste infrastructure to meet stringent diversion targets set down in the EU Landfill Directive. The waste PDSU has a key role to play in this process. Prior to joining PDSU Alan worked in the waste industry and in a consultancy role.

Leo O'Reilly
Chairman’s introduction

Leo O'Reilly took up the post of Permanent Secretary at the Department of the Environment in August 2009. He is the Minister's principal advisor on all aspects of the Department's responsibilities and is the Accounting Officer for all departmental expenditure. He was formerly Permanent Secretary at the Department of Finance and Personnel (DFP) from July 2008, and was Second Permanent Secretary at DFP since October 2007.

Edwin Poots, MLA
The Northern Ireland waste management policy framework

Edwin Poots, MLA was appointed Minister for the Environment on 30 June 2009. He was formerly Minister for Culture, Arts and Leisure from 2007-2008. He was first elected to Lisburn City Council in 1997 and the Northern Ireland Assembly in 1998. He has been a member of the Assembly's Education Committee and Agriculture and Rural Development Committee. He is currently Chairman of the following organisations: Lisburn City Centre Management, Lisburn Rural LEADER Group, Lisburn City Council's Economic Development Committee and the Maze Implementation Panel.

Eric Randall
The impact of recycling on infrastructure investment

Eric Randall is Director of Recycling with Bryson Recycling, where he has worked for 17 years. He was a Board Member of the Northern Ireland Waste Management Advisory Board for three years and of the Northern Ireland Waste Management Advisory Group for two years. Eric is a member of the Chartered Institute of Waste Management and in 2006 was awarded an MBE for 'services to waste management'. He has a degree in environmental sciences from Bradford University and an MBA from the University of Ulster.

Andrew Ryan
The legal framework for waste management

Andrew Ryan is an Associate in the Environment and Planning Team at leading law firm Carson McDowell. He advises on all aspects of environment and planning law, including renewable energy developments, waste regulation, brownfield redevelopment, and enforcement/appeals. He previously worked in regulatory and enforcement roles for the Environment Agency in England.

Dr Michael Warhurst
Towards a greener waste future

Dr Michael Warhurst has been working for Friends of the Earth in London as the senior campaigner in the Resource Use team since November 2005. His work focuses particularly on EU and UK waste and resources policy, and he heads up Friends of the Earth Europe's Resources and Waste campaign. Prior to this role, he worked on the EU's new REACH chemicals regulation, first at Friends of the Earth in London, and then in WWF's European Policy Office in Brussels. In 2005 he spent 9 months working on US chemicals policy at the Lowell Centre for Sustainable Production in Massachusetts, USA.