Dr DAVID SLATER, CChem FRSC CEng FiChemE BSc PhD CB CEO David has extensive experience in environmental policy and risk management, both in academia, consultancy and in UK Regulatory Agencies. He was instrumental in pioneering the techniques of quantified risk assessment to the offshore and process industries, and for both environmental and major hazard applications. He was appointed as Chief Inspector of Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Pollution before and during its critical merger into the Environment Agency, subsequently becoming a Director of Environmental Protection of the newly formed Agency. A former Environmental Adviser to the Cabinet Office’s Better Regulation Taskforce, David has also chaired Nirex CLG, which has responsibility for developing long-term solutions to the issue of disposal of radioactive waste; he has chaired the Joint Agency/Government Task Force on Environmental Risk Assessment; was appointed Specialist Adviser to the House of Commons’ Environment, Transport and Regional Affairs Select Committee; and was the founding Chairman of the EU Network for the Implementation and Enforcement of Environmental Law (IMPEL).
	CHRIS BAKER Associate (Engineering and Systems Risk) Chris is an experienced risk analysis and management consultant specialising in the use of innovative Dependency Modelling techniques. He enables clients to justify the allocation of finite resources and form a consensus, supported by the application of logical, consistent risk analysis. His projects have included the reduction of planned capex for West of Scotland Water from £1.5Bn to £800M; IT security risk analysis for ISO27001 Accreditation for a Metropolitan District Council; Projects for Fidelity Investments covering fraud, money laundering and physical security; modelling actuarial, legal risks and insurance exposures in International Joint Ventures; and Supply Chain Risks for the highly outsourced manufacturing company Novar plc.
	Professor PHILIP BOWEN, BSc PhD CEng MIMechE Associate (Engineering and Systems Risk) Phil has a range of experience in Energy and Environmental Research and Management in academia, consultancy and industry. He undertook five years Risk and Hazard research and consultancy with Shell during the early 1990s, followed by R&D in Energy and Hazardous systems at Cardiff University. Since 2000, he has undertaken a range of international consultancies and research programmes, provided Energy/Environmental advice for multinational industries and government, and initiated a national multidisciplinary Energy Research Centre (Welsh Energy Research Centre, WERC). He is Professor of Energy Systems and Head of Marketing and Publicity and holds the post of Chair in Energy Systems at the School of Engineering, Cardiff University.
	JOHN COMBER, Barrister LLB Associate (Regulation and Enforcement Risk) John Comber has over 30 years of experience within government of domestic and community legislation, and specialising in environmental law for nearly 20 years. He was Head of the Environment (National) and Water Divisions of Department of the Environment (DOE), Department for Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR) and Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) from 1986 to 2003, and was the Government lawyer involved in 21 major Government Bills with lead responsibility for the legal team for 14 of these. He has extensive experience of the preparation and implementation of domestic legislation and negotiation and implementation of European Community legislation.
	Professor JOHN GORDON Associate (Engineering and Systems Risk) John is a specialist in Business Risk and IT security, and former academic. After 18 years research in data security, John has pioneered some of the techniques now incorporated into Public Key Infrastructure. In 1990 he devised Dependency Modeling as a risk analysis methodology. This has seen three software incarnations, used by, amongst others Abbey National plc, AEA Technology, Angel Trains, Alliance and Leicester plc, Balitmore Gas and Electric, Beasley, Bowring Marsh McLenna, British Aerospace, British Airways, BT, Burton Group plc, Califormia Medical Center, Deutsche Bank, Eastman Kodak, EIG, Fidelity Investments, Fletcher Challenge (NZ), HSBC, Logica, Merrill Lynch, National Air Traffic Services, Neopost, PBM International, RailTrack, Rank, Scottish Water, SmithKline Beecham, UK Treasury, U.S. Department of Transportation, U.S. Federal Aviation Authority, Union Bank of Switzerland, Willis Construction, Yorkshire Electricity. The latest version, VuRisk, uncovers organisational risk by Bayesian Inference, Fault-Trees and Failure Mode analysis. John was born in 1943, graduated from Cambridge University in 1965, and was awarded his PhD in 1977. An author of over fifty scientific papers on data security and risk analysis, and Visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire, John is the founder of Concept Laboratories, specialising in risk analysis and cryptography.
	OWEN JONES Associate (Enterprise and Due Diligence Risk) Owen is a seasoned IT infrastructure and application development manager with extensive experience in both project and line roles. He has a global career in financial services and environmental risk assessment, including 19 years working for Goldman Sachs and 5 years with Technica, a leading risk management consultancy. Owen has a track record of successful technical programme delivery, strategy design, service management and staff development working across multicultural environments in Europe, Asia and the US.
	JONATHAN LONSDALE Associate (Enterprise and Due Diligence Risk) Jonathan is a technology and market analyst with 14 years sustainability, investment and commercialisation experience across the environmental and low carbon industries, comprising roles within early stage Venture Capital, UK Government, strategic environmental consultancy and industry. Since 2007, Jonathan has lead the research and analysis activities at Low Carbon Investors Limited, the fund manager for AIM-listed Low Carbon Accelerator Limited. His main responsibilities were to evaluate new technology opportunities and build the case for investment by the fund. Between 2002 and 2007, Jonathan advised the UK government on innovation challenges within the UK environmental industries sector and was responsible for delivering a series of action programmes to help overcome these obstacles. At ECOTEC Research & Consulting Limited, Jonathan specialised in the provision of strategic advice on markets for environmental technologies and services to the public and private sector. He also built an excellent knowledge of environmental control costs and regulatory compliance across industry. John is currently Principal Consultant at GHK Consulting Ltd. Jonathan holds a First class BSc in Geology from the University of Bristol and a MPhil in Environment and Development from the University of Cambridge.
	BETHAN MORGAN, BSc ARSM CEng MIMMM Associate (Engineering & Systems Risk) Bethan is the founder of Morgan Safety Solutions Ltd. She is a highly experienced safety and risk management professional who has been involved in the development, application and implementation of quantitative risk and safety management techniques in the oil and gas, chemical, nuclear and railway industries, over the last 25 plus years. She is internationally known in the field of Quantitative Risk Analysis (QRA), particularly of pipelines, where she has addressed both safety and environmental risks and also emergency response planning. She has published extensively and has given evidence as a technical witness at two public inquiries. She has hands-on HSE project management skills in engineering environments, including EPIC contracts, consultancy, and corporate level strategic initiatives. She also possesses strong inter-personal skills and has very effective verbal and written communication abilities. She also has experience of senior management, including business continuity and multi-discipline major project planning, in the City of London.
	Dr JOHN MURLIS, PhD DIC FRES FRMS Associate (Environmental and Performance Risk) John is a highly experienced environmental scientist, advising international clients in the public and private sector on environmental strategy and sustainable development. He is a former Chief Scientist, Director of Strategy, and Head of Sustainable Development for the Environment Agency of England and Wales. He was Director of Research at the Jackson Research Institute, and Director of the Institute for Environmental Policy at University College London, where is now Visiting Professor and providing UCL with support in developing interdisciplinary research on environmental policy. John is the author or co-author of over 30 articles and papers on public policy, environment, atmospheric dispersion and insect behaviour. His specific interests include climate change and air quality.
	RAY PURDY, LLM LLB Associate (Regulation & Law Enforcement) As well as his role as Associate, Ray is a senior research fellow and deputy director of the law faculty’s Centre for Law and the Environment at University College London. He previously held academic positions at Imperial College and the University of Oxford. Ray has an established international research reputation in environmental law and policy where he has extensive experience working on contracted research projects. He has undertaken research for industry, NGOs, funding councils, the European Commission, UN, World Bank, and numerous governments. His areas of specialism include the use of satellites and new technologies to monitor and enforce laws, and more generally climate change, where he has been an expert reviewer in this field for both the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and International Energy Agency.
	SIAN SLATER Associate (Enterprise and Due Diligence Risk) Sian is the Founder and Creative Director of Kandu Ltd, set up in 1997 with the aim of mainstreaming the use of culture, creativity and the arts within sustainable development processes. Sian works on sustainable business innovation & strategic planning and fundraising development projects across the commercial, social, public, regeneration, environment and arts and cultural sectors, nationally and internationally. She also carries out independent research and project development which includes Kandu Creative© - a cultural think-network and engagement mechanism, for project development and evaluation using innovation for social change.
	VLADIMIR TRBOJEVIC, PhD DIC MSc DiplEng Associate (Engineering and Systems Risk) Vladimir has been involved in the development and application of risk analysis methodologies in the design, construction and installation, operation and removal stages. This experience has been successfully used for risk analysis of marine operations in ports where he has applied the bow tie approach and has developed a bow tie based safety management system. His other projects range from design assurance, consumer products liability assessment, transportation of LNG, evacuation from high speed rail tunnels. His research interest includes risk criteria for spillage, tunnels, shipping, ports and land-use planning, and development of integrated safety management systems based on bow ties. He is currently involved in improving ways for communication and transfer of major hazards and risk analysis knowledge to the workforce and the management. His publications include more than 70 papers published in scientific and engineering journals and conference proceedings.
	WILLIAM WILSON, Barrister LLM Associate (Regulation and Enforcement Risk) William Wilson has been a specialist environmental lawyer since 1992. As well as his role of Associate, William advises on environmental and energy law for Burges Salmon LLP, solicitors, focusing on regulatory work on environmental, energy, water, chemicals and nuclear issues for corporate and government clients. He is also a registered expert with the International Atomic Energy Association (IAEA) and with the European Chemicals Association (ECHA). William spent nearly ten years working on UK and EU environmental laws at the Solicitor’s Office of the DETR/Defra, including legal management of the Environment Act 1995, Water Industry Act 1999 and publication draft of the Water Act 2003. His work included helping to negotiate the Water Framework Directive and advising government on radioactive substances, air quality, water, waste and general environmental law and litigation. He has been advising major clients over the last two years on the negotiation of the European Union’s REACH Chemicals Regulation, and has also undertaken major projects in the fields of radioactive substances, air quality, water, waste and other environmental regulation. William is the author of ‘Making Environmental Laws Work – Law and Policy in the UK and USA’ (Hart 1999); and ‘William Robert Grove – The Lawyer Who Invented the Fuel Cell’ (Metolius, 2007). He was an Expert Reviewer of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Special Report on Carbon Capture and Storage.