Speaker Biographies
Speaker information is being regularly updated below. Please contact Charlene Selmer for further details on +44 (0) 2920 783 024 / charlene.selmer@forum-europe.com
Please note speakers to be confirmed are indicated as such with a *.
Confirmed Speakers
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Confirmed Speakers
Fred L. Smith
President and Founder, Competitive Enterprise Institute
Fred Smith is president and founder of the Competitive Enterprise Institute, a free market public policy group and international NGO. CEI aims to make good policy, good politics by combining analysis with advocacy. Fred addresses complex policy issues ranging from the environment to corporate governance and is a frequent guest on TV and radio programs as well as a prolific writer. As a former policy analyst with the Environmental Protection Agency, Fred speaks with candor about the true cost of government regulation.
Jack de Bruijn
Director of Risk Management, European Chemicals Agency
Jack de Bruijn started working at the European Chemicals Agency right from the start in September 2007. He is currently heading the Risk Management Directorate that is responsible for identifying and implementing the authorisation and restrictions processes under REACH as well as managing the classification related tasks resulting from the CLP Regulation.
Before joining the Agency he worked at the European Chemicals Bureau of the JRC in Ispra where he coordinated the development of the guidance documents for REACH. Before joining the ECB he worked for many years for the Dutch national authorities in the area of regulatory risk assessment of chemicals. He is chemist by training and has a PhD in environmental toxicology.
Anne-Sofie Andersson
Director, ChemSec
Anne-Sofie holds a M.Sc. in chemistry from the University of Hamburg, Germany. In 2003 when ChemSec was established in Gothenburg, Sweden Anne-Sofie joined the team as a policy advisor and since 2006 she is the director of ChemSec.
Before joining ChemSec, she worked for the consumer organisations in the Nordic countries, where she monitored chemical issues from a consumer perspective. As a scientist she started her career with biotechnology research on diseases.
Franz Fiala
Chairperson of the Environment and Nanotechnology Working Groups, ANEC
Dipl. Ing. Dr. Franz Fiala
• Nationality: Austria
• Date of birth:1957-06-01
Current employment:
• Head of the Consumer Council at the Austrian Standards Institute - Representation of consumer interests in national, European and international standardisation groups as well as in regulatory fora (a total of more than 80 different committees and working groups in the fields of product safety and environment from 1991 to present)
• Various functions in the European Association of Consumer Representation in Standardisation (ANEC) – currently Chair of working groups on Environment and Nanotechnology
• Chairman of the Austrian Network Social Responsibility
Other work experience:
• Industry - development of construction products (facade materials, screeds)
• University - environmental analytical chemistry (emissions of waste incinerators, organic trace analysis)
Academic background:
• Study of technical chemistry - Vienna University of Technology (thesis on biocide residue analysis of drugs and spices)
• Postgraduate study of toxicology – University of Vienna
David Carlander
Director of Advocacy, Nanotechnology Industries Association
Before joining the Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA), Dr Carlander most recently worked six years as Scientific Officer for the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA), Parma, Italy, where he was coordinating the risk assessment of applications of nanotechnologies in the food and feed area. In EFSA Dr Carlander also performed risk assessment of animal cloning, and has been working with the TTC concept (Threshold of Toxicological Concern) as well as with GMO (Genetically Modified Organisms) risk assessment. Before EFSA, Dr Carlander worked for the Swedish Ministry of Agriculture, and the Swedish National Food Administration. Dr Carlander has 15 years of experience working with governments, academia, industry and international organisations. Dr Carlander holds a M.Sc. in Biotechnology and a PhD in Clinical Chemistry from Uppsala University, Sweden.
David Azoulay
Managing Attorney, Geneva Office, The Center for International Environmental Law
David Azoulay is a french lawyer and the managing attorney of the Geneva office of the Center for International Environmental Law (CIEL). David manages CIEL’s nanotechnology project and chairs the IPEN nano-working group, a working network of over 50 NGOs from 5 continents addressing nanotechnologies related issues at international level.
Before that, David had assisted in the transposition of the European agricultural biotech regulation into French law for a major French NGO, worked several years in the Environment department of the Paris office of a major international law firm (Freshfields Bruckhaus Dering) and coordinated, Friends of the Earth Europe’s network on REACH implementation.
Bob Diderich
Head of Division, Environment Directorate, OECD
Bob Diderich has been involved in environmental hazard and risk assessment of chemical substances since 1992, mainly working for the German and French authorities. In 2002 he joined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development where was in charge of the OECD Cooperative Chemicals Assessment Programme and the OECD Project on (Quantitative) Structure Activity Relationships. Since 2012 he is the head of the Environment, Health and Safety Division.
Speakers to be confirmed
Logistics
When
Thu 28 June, 2012 08.30 to
Fri 29 June, 2012 16.00
CET
Where
Rue du Parnasse 19
Brussels
1050 Belgium
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