Current members of UK REACH Independent Scientific Expert Pool (RISEP)

Qualifications

• PhD in Science and Technology (Chemistry)
• Research Masters in Organic chemistry

Biography

Dr Alaric Desmarchelier is a business development manager and former senior scientist with 11 years of research and development and project management experience.

He is a seasoned organic chemist with broad experience in academic and industrial chemical research and development and good manufacturing process (GMP) development .

As a postdoctoral fellow in the Netherlands, he worked on various method development projects in catalysis, trying to find alternate and environmentally friendlier ways to prepare complex building blocks in chemistry. He has also gained in-depth knowledge in supramolecular and electronic materials chemistry in his three following postdoctoral projects, as well as being involved in both analytical and radiolabelling chemistry to support these.

Declared interests

Direct Employment

Almac Sciences Scotland

Clubs and other organisations

Former member of the French Chemical Society

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) (I) Chemistry
• MSc (Nanoscience)
• PhD (Chemistry)
• NEBOSH National General Certificate in Occupational Health and Safety

Biography

Dr Alex Greenaway is based at Durham University Department of Chemistry where he works as a Technical Manager for health and safety.

Previously, he worked at the Science and Technology Facilities Council (STFC) which is part of the UK Research and Innovation (UKRI).

Prior to working in health and safety, he worked as a scientific researcher in materials chemistry, focussing on functional materials for catalysis and gas separations.

He has published academic papers in nationally and internationally recognised scientific including 'Nature', 'Chemical Science', 'Angewandte Chemie' and 'the Journal of the American Chemical Society'.

Declared interests

Direct Employment

Durham University

Qualifications

• MSc, The Social gilland Economic Aspects of Science and Technology in Industry.
• Diploma of Imperial College
• BSc (Hons) Civil and Environmental Engineering

Biography

Andrew Fasey has been extensively involved in a number of important developments in international regulatory chemicals management including REACH regulation and Globally Harmonised System (GHS) for the classification and labelling of chemicals (CLP) .

From 2011 to 2021, he was the Technically Qualified Member (TQM) of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) Board of Appeal (BoA) taking decisions on appeals against certain ECHA decisions.

Prior to his work with the ECHA BoA he was a consultant working with individual companies and other stakeholders on regulatory chemicals issues such as GHS, CLP and REACH.

He has worked in the field of international regulatory chemicals issues for over 20 years as a consultant, for ECHA, the European Commission and UK Government.

He helped develop REACH from its inception under the UK Presidency in 1998, in the European Commission's Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry, and as a special advisor to the Government of Finland (during the FI presidency when REACH was agreed).

He was a co-author of the European Commission's REACH proposal and one of the lead EU negotiators in the development of the GHS.

Declared interests

Direct Employment

ECHA as the TQM ECHA BoA (From 1 March 2011 until 28 February 2021)

Consultancies and other fee-paid work

Independent consultant. Senior Scientific and Regulatory Advisor at Mayer Brown LLP. Senior Advisor at BCW-Global

Shareholdings

Owner of Protection Through Knowledge Ltd

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Chemistry, Life Systems & Pharmaceuticals
• D.Phil Chemistry
• Eurotox Registered Toxicologist (ERT)
• Chartered Chemist (CChem)

Biography

Dr Camilla Alexander-White is a chemical safety assessor with over 25 years of experience. She is a strategic advisor to the cosmetics and foods sectors on assuring the safety of product-critical ingredients or contaminants coming under regulatory scrutiny in Europe.

She is a Eurotox registered toxicologist (ERT), chartered chemist (CChem) and Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry (FRSC).

She worked at Unilever for a decade, working on developing novel approach methodologies (NAM) for safety testing without animals and as Programme Manager covering safety programmes for foods and cosmetics products. She was Principal Scientist in human health at the Environment Agency before joining the global consultancy company Ramboll Environ.

She has worked on regulatory dossiers, across the USA and EU, on a wide range of challenging and globally critical product ingredients, novel foods products and environmental contaminants in air, soil, water and waste.

She now works for the Royal Society of Chemistry as senior policy advisor, and over the past 3 years has been advising the government on chemical regulation post Brexit, and on the development of a new Chemicals Strategy for the UK.

She is Chair of the board at LHASA Ltd UK, a not-for-profit organisation developing the use of a suite of in silico predictive toxicology approaches for chemical and drug safety assessment. She is also Deputy Chair of the Office for Product Safety and Standards' Science Advisory Group on Consumer Safety.

Declared interests

Direct employment

Royal Society of Chemistry

Consultancies and other fee-paid work

Director MKTox & Co Ltd; Independent Consultancy

Shareholdings

51% share in MKTox & Co Ltd

Clubs and other organisations

Member of the British Toxicology Society

Fellowships

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Trusteeships

Chair of the Board of Trustees at LHASA Ltd

Other public appointments

• Chair of the FSA Advisory Committee on Novel Foods and Processes (2020-2023)
• Deputy chair of the BEIS-OPSS Science advisory group on consumer safety (SAG-CS)

Qualifications

MChem Chemistry

Biography

Chris Hughes is an environmental scientist and regulatory expert with over 10 years of experience. He currently works for Ricardo Plc, a global engineering, environmental and strategic consultancy.

He specialises in the environmental hazard and risk assessment of chemicals, and global regulations, REACH and GHS. He provides support to a range of private and public sector clients.

He participates in a number of research projects including being the research lead for Cefic, the European Chemical Industry Council's Long-Range Research Initiative ECO52 project.

He's made various presentations and frequently chairs discussions at international conferences, webinars and workshops. He has authored numerous peer-reviewed publications on the subject of environmental hazard and persistence assessment of chemicals. Chris also acts as Product Director for RKicardo's REACH and Environmental Chemistry and Toxicology consultancy services, responsible for technical, commercial and financial oversight of these business areas. Prior to joining Ricardo in 2018, Chris worked for Shell, supporting regulatory compliance for its downstream products. Chris has a Master's degree from the University of Manchester and is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

Declared interests

Shareholdings

Shell shares (as of 30 March 2021)

Clubs and other organisations

Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC) and Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)

Indirect support

Consultancy projects for Ricardo

Qualifications

• PhD Agriculture
• BSc (Hons) Agricultural Botany

Biography

Chris is Professor of Environmental Chemistry at Reading University specialising in the fate and behaviour of pollutants in the environment, and the assessment of risks to human health and ecosystems with 20 years of academic research experience and 80refereed papers published. Professor Chris's work is used by industry, regulators and the academic community to develop and validate chemical exposure models. He chaired the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee (2017-2022) providing expert advice to the UK Government on how to protect the environment from chemicals. Chris was Natural Environment Research Council Soils Coordinator overseeing a multi-million-pound research investment to improve our understanding of how soils resist, recover and adapt to land use and climate change. From 2018 to 2020 he was a member of the UK Natural Capital Committee.

Declared interests

Direct Employment

• University of Reading
• Natural Resources Wales

Qualifications

• PhD
• BSc (Hons)
• FRSB
• CStat
• CBiol
• CSci

Biography

Dr David Lovell is a Reader (Emeritus) Medical Statistics at St George's Medical School, University of London. Previously he was Reader in Medical Statistics at the Postgraduate Medical School, University of Surrey and an Associate Director and Head of Biostatistics support to Clinical Pharmacogenomics at Pfizer Global Research and Development (PGRD).

Before joining Pfizer, David was the Head of the Science Division at BIBRA International, which included Molecular Biology, Genetic Toxicology, Biostatistics and Computer Services.

Until 2021 he was Chair of the UK Government's Advisory Committees on Mutagenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COM) and a member of the Committee on Carcinogenicity (COC). He is a member of the Board of the National Centre for the Replacement, Refinement and Reduction of Animals in Research (NC3Rs). In 2019, he received from UKEMS the Jim Parry Award to a senior scientist who has made substantial contributions to the field of environmental mutagenesis.

Declared interests

Consultancies and other fee-paid work

Member of the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT).

Shareholdings

National Grid plc.

Pensions

• USS
• Pfizer

Scientific Societies and other organisations 

• Biometrics Society
• British Toxicology Society (BTS)
• Genetics Society
• Laboratory Animal Science Association (LASA)
• Royal Statistical Society (RSS)
• Statisticians in the Pharmaceutical Industry (PSI)
• United Kingdom Environment Mutagen Society (UKEMS)
• MRC EMINENT Scientific Review Board
• HESI GTTC
• ILSI Europe Threshold of Toxicological Concern Task Force (TTC)

Other personal interests

• British Trust of Ornithologists
• English Heritage
• Liberty Campaign of the Protection of Rural England
• Kew Gardens
• Sandwich Bay Bird Observatory Trust
• Chelsea Physic Garden National Trust

Qualifications

• BA (Hons) Urban and Regional Geography.
• MSc Modernity, Space and Place.

Biography

David Tyrer is an environmental policy and economics expert with over 15 years professional experience.

He is currently Technical Director of the Logika Group's Environmental Policy and Economics Practice. He leads all Logika's work in chemicals policy, in socio-economic analysis, cost benefit and cost-effectiveness analysis and impact assessment. Prior to this he had an equivalent position at Wood Plc, held posts in an environmental economics think tank and in economic research and consultancy.

David Tyrer has extensive project direction, management and technical experience for the European Commission and their agencies, for UK and European Member State governments, for the United Nations and the private sector - in the UK and Europe, North America and South East Asia.

Declared interests

Consultancies and other fee-paid work

Independent consultant including working on chemical related projects for Defra.

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Environmental Chemistry (1st)
• DPhil Edward Grey Institute of Field Ornithology

Biography

Following her degree in environmental chemistry (London University) and a DPhil on the biochemistry of lead poisoning from ammunition sources in birds (Oxford University) Debbie Pain spent four years carrying out postdoctoral research at the Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat in the Camargue, France.

She then spent 16 years in the Research Department of the RSPB where she initiated and headed up the International Research Section working on bird conservation problems. Subsequently, she was Director of Conservation at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust (WWT) overseeing their wetland science and delivery in the UK and overseas. This included a secondment to World Land Trust acting as CEO.

She has worked independently after leaving the WWT and is actively involved in conservation science. In 2018 she became an Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Zoology at Cambridge University and in 2019 she became an Honorary Professor in the School of Biological Sciences at the University of East Anglia. She is deputy president the Station Biologique de la Tour du Valat Science Council and a member of the Cambridge Conservation Initiative (CCI) Collaborative Fund Selection Panel.

Declared interests

Consultancies and other fee-paid work

Previously employed by the Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (2008-2018) and RSPB (1992-2007)

Trusteeships

Trustee of the RSPB

Fellowships

• Fellow of WWF-UK
• Honorary Research Fellow in the Department of Zoology at Cambridge University

Other public appointments

Member of Lead Ammunition Group

Qualifications

• BA Chemistry
• MA Oxon
• DPhil Aspects of Organo-sulphur Chemistry

Biography

Derek Knight worked at the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) until January 2022. As the Senior Scientific Advisor, he was responsible for providing expert scientific and technical advice on matters relating to chemical regulation, with the focus on the EU REACH, CLP and Biocides Regulations and the operations of ECHA. Latterly he was a Senior Scientific officer in the Hazard Directorate.

Previously he headed a team of regulatory affairs professionals at a UK contract research organisation for almost 18 years, covering a wide range of regulatory schemes worldwide. He has also registered medicinal products and worked as a Technical Support Chemist. He has a broad understanding of the regulation of chemicals and is especially interested in approaches to hazard and risk assessment using non-standard data. He represented ECHA in the EU-ToxRisk research initiative.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Chartered Chemist, a Chartered Scientist and a Fellow of the Organisation of Professionals in Regulatory Affairs. His doctoral studies at the University of Oxford in the UK were in organosulphur chemistry.

Declared interests

Direct employment

• Regulatory consultant
• Senior Scientific Officer at ECHA until January 2022

Fellowships

• Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry
• Fellow of the Organisation of Professionals in Regulatory Affairs

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Economics and Economic History
• MA Economic Policy and Planning

Biography

Derrik Jones is a consultant with over 30 years of practical experience in applying cost-benefit analysis and other economic appraisal and evaluation techniques.

For 13 years he was Chief Economist and Chief Analyst at the Food Standards Agency (FSA).

He has worked in many areas of Government, both as a civil servant and as an economic consultant. Since 2015 he has been a co-opted expert on the European Chemicals Agency's Committee for Socio-Economic Analysis (SEAC). During this time, he has acted as economic rapporteur on dozens of the Committee's opinions, assessing applicants' cases and drafting the socio-economic elements of opinion texts.

Declared interests

Consultancies and other fee-paid work

Member of European Chemicals Agency's Socio-Economic Analysis Committee

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Applied Biology
• DPhil Identification, Quantification and Assessment of Oestrogenic Chemicals in Sewage-Treatment Work Effluents
• Post Graduate Certificate in Learning and Teaching in Higher Education

Biography

As a Reader (Associate Professor) in aquatic ecotoxicology at Brunel University London, Edwin Routledge has been working in the field of chemicals (mainly endocrine disrupting chemicals) and pollution for over 20 years. He has amassed significant experience in ecotoxicology in particular, including aspects of both pure and applied research relevant to the understanding of the impacts of chemicals on environment and human health.

His track record of research and scientific expertise can be seen by his publication record. He has published 42 papers in high impact international journals, with over 6500 citations to date, putting him in the top 2% of environmental scientists globally.

Declared interests

None declared

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Molecular Science
• MSc Enzymology
• MSc Toxicology

Biography

George Kowalczyk has over 30 years of experience in the assessment of human health risks from chemicals in a wide variety of settings, namely in environmental, occupational, agrochemical and pharmaceutical sectors.

He has worked in industry (Roche), Consultancy (Dames and Moore, wca) and as a toxicologist in government agencies (Department of Health (1997-2003), the former Health Protection Agency (HPA) (2003-2013) and Public Health England (PHE) (from 2013)). He also spent 15 years as head of the Toxicology Unit within the Occupational Medical Service of the British Coal Corporation (1981-1996).

At HPA/PHE he had a strategic role in proving health advice and guidance on chemical related issues, particularly in respect of contaminated land, asbestos in the environment, waste incineration, drinking water quality and revisions to the COMAH Regulations.

Though retiring from full time work in 2014, he has continued to work as an independent toxicology consultant, specialising in environmental, consumer and occupational chemical risk assessment and REACH registration work. He regularly returns to work for PHE on  short toxicological projects.

Declared interests

Direct employment

Public Health England (until April 2021)

Consultancies and other fee-paid work

• CL:AIRE
• derivation of HBGVs for soil contaminants

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Genetics
• PhD Measurement of Neutron R.B.E Banding and Exchanges in Human Lymphocyte Chromosomes

Biography

Gill Clare is currently an independent consultant. She has over 30 years of experience in genetic toxicology, working in the university, health and private sectors.

She specialises in the identification and characterisation of genotoxic hazards of substances to human health. She has significant experience of performing risk assessments for substances, including those found in food.

She has served on the Committee of Toxicity (COT), Veterinary Residues Committee (VRC) and the Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee (HSAC).

She is currently a member of the Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, the Consumer products and the Environment (COC), the Food Standards Agency (FSA) registers of specialists and the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) registers of specialist, the COT on Joint Expert Group for Food Contact Materials (FCMJEG), the National institute for health and Research (NIHR) Patient and Public Involvement, and the Scientific Advisory Group (SAG).

Declared interests

Direct employment

Covance Laboratories Ltd (cytogenetic consultant)

Shareholdings

• AstraZeneca
• Diageo
• Marks and Spencer

Clubs and other organisations

Member of United Kingdom Environmental Mutagen Society

Other personal interests

• Shell Research Ltd
• AstraZeneca Ltd.(pensions)

Other public appointments

• COC
• the FSA and OPSS register of specialists
• COT on FCMJEG
• a PPI on NIHR
• and the SAG

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Chemistry with Medical Chemistry
• PhD Chemistry

Biography

James Hanlon is a Senior Scientist in the Research section of the Institute of Occupational Medicine (IOM).

He undertook a PhD in Chemistry at the University of Glasgow focussing on hydrogen storage materials before holding 2 post-doctoral positions, 1 in France and 1 in the UK where he was involved in the EU FP7 HYPER project for hydrogen storage. From this, he gained his experience in nanomaterials characterisation including in powder X-ray diffraction, thermal analysis, spectroscopy and microscopy and in structure-property relationships.

He worked in consultancy for four years (prior to joining IOM) with a focus on EU legislation for occupational exposure (REACH, CAD and CMD).

His research interests lie in safe by design strategies for nano-enabled products for reducing exposure, measuring exposure to nanomaterials and assessing exposure to hazardous substances.

Declared interests

None declared

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Environmental Health
• MSc Occupational Hygiene
• PhD Environmental Medicine

Biography

Karen Galea is a Research Team Lead at the Institute of Occupational Medicine, Edinburgh. She is actively involved in a wide variety of research projects, mainly focused on exposure assessment relating to health risks.

Her workplace-based research has included inhalation, dermal and biomonitoring exposure assessment in a range of industrial sectors. A very recent example of this is HBM4EU European chromates study and she's involved in future occupational campaigns under the European Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals (PARC) project.

Her research extends beyond the working environment, such as pesticide biomonitoring in residents living near agricultural land, and use of respiratory protection against volcanic ash.

Declared interests

Direct Employment

Institute of Occupational Medicine

Clubs and other organisations

• Member of the British Occupational Hygiene Society
• Member of the International Society of Exposure Science

Qualifications

• BSc Environmental Science
• PhD Environmental Science

Biography

Laura Carter is an Associate Professor in Soil and Environmental Chemistry in the Faculty of Environment at the University of Leeds. She was appointed in 2018 as part of the '250 Great Minds' programme, a 5 year University of Leeds scheme designed to support promising early career researchers in academia. 

She holds a prestigious UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) Future Leaders Fellowship. Her research expertise focuses on understanding the risks of emerging contaminants in the natural environment, in particular pharmaceuticals. Within the area of environmental risk assessment, she has expertise in ecotoxicology (soil and aquatic systems), and fate and behaviour of chemicals (uptake, soil chemistry, bioavailability, degradation/sorption) from a modelling (including QSARs) and experimental perspective.

Declared interests

Consultancies and other fee-paid work

Defra Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Zoology
• MSc Applied Physiology
• PhD Experimental Pathology

Biography

Len Levy is currently Emeritus Professor of Environmental Health at the University of Cranfield. Prior to this he was Head of Toxicology and Risk Assessment at the UK Medical Research Council's Institute for Environment and Health at the University of Leicester.

He is an occupational and environmental toxicologist and risk assessor, and holds a PhD in experimental pathology from the Institute of Cancer Research in London. He has held academic positions at the University of Aston and the University of Birmingham's Institute of Occupational Health, where he was Reader in Occupational Health, continuing his research into the causes and mechanisms of occupational cancer.

In 2000, he was awarded an OBE for Services to Health and Safety and is a recipient of the ACGIH Herbert E. Stokinger Award.

He has been a member of the UK's Health and Safety Commission's Working Group on the Assessment of Toxic Chemicals (WATCH) and the Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances (ACTS), as well as the Chair of the EU Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits (SCOEL). He is a member of the Veterinary Products Committee (VPC). He is also an expert adviser to the UK Interdepartmental Group on Hazards and Risks from Chemicals (IGHRC), and a member of the Workplace Health Expert Committee (WHEC).

Declared interests

Consultancies and other fee-paid work

• Health and Safety Committee of the International Manganese Institute
• Scientific Advisory Group of the International Carbon Black Association
• Health and Safety Committee of the International Molybdenum Association
• Vanitec Health and Safety Committee
• International Copper Association

Qualifications

• MA Biochemistry
• PhD Biochemistry

Biography

Lesley A. Stanley's PhD and postdoctoral research focused on xenobiotic metabolism and mechanisms of chemical carcinogenesis. In 2005, after 6 as a key player in the multidisciplinary Biomedical Science team at De Montfort University and 3 years as Head of Operations at CXR Biosciences Ltd, Dundee, she established her own business as an Independent Consultant in Investigative Toxicology.

She authored the textbook, 'Molecular and Cellular Toxicology: An Introduction' in 2014 and is currently an Associate of the School of Applied Sciences, Edinburgh Napier University.

She has been the Chair, Vice-Chair and a panellist of the UK Register of Toxicologists, and  was awarded a Fellowship by the British Toxicology Society in recognition of her substantial contributions to the discipline of toxicology and to the work of the Society.

In December 2019 she was appointed to the Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COC). She has previously been a member of the Scottish Food Advisory Committee, the Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee  and the Committee on Toxicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment (COT).

Declared interests

Direct employment

Associate of Edinburgh Napier University – Non-stipendiary position

Consultancies and other fee-paid work

University of Dundee

Shareholdings

Investment Portfolio managed by Quilter Cheviot

Clubs and other organisations

Fellow of the British Toxicology Society

Other personal interests

• Local Ministry in the Church of Scotland
• Christian Aid
• International Justice Mission

Qualifications

• BSc Natural Resource Economics
• MSc Environmental Economics

Biography

Meg Postle is a founding Director of Risk & Policy Analysts Ltd (RPA), with over 20 years of consultancy experience. With a background in environmental economics, she has extensive experience in undertaking economic analyses of projects, programmes and policies, and has worked internationally in Hong Kong, China and Indonesia as well as throughout the EU.

She has overseen and undertaken work on a wide range of impact assessments carried out for the European Commission and various national governments. She has been active in the field of chemical risk management since the early 1990s and currently sits on Defra's chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear (CBRN) Recovery Science Advisory Group and until recently was a member of Defra's Economics Advisory Panel.

Declared interests

Consultancies and other fee-paid work

Risk & Policy Analysts Ltd

Qualifications

• BSc
• PhD

Biography

Mike Holland has been involved with REACH from the mid-2000s when he was engaged in the review and appraisal of work on the development of methods for Socio-Economic Assessment (SEA). This drew on his extensive experience of pan-European work on air quality, particularly the quantification of health and environmental impacts, monetisation of effects and use of cost-effectiveness analysis and cost-benefit analysis for policy appraisal.

He has been an observer to the Socio-Economic Assessment Committee (SEAC) under REACH since 2009 and has first-hand knowledge of how EU REACH operates and how restrictions and authorisations are developed and evaluated.

He was a lead author in the development of the impact pathway approach for quantification and monetisation of the effects of pollutants on health, ecosystems and other sensitive receptors in the early 1990s. He is also an independent expert on socioeconomic analysis on the UK Chemicals Stakeholder Forum.

Declared interests

Consultancies and other fee-paid work

Public and Private sector work on EU REACH and UK REACH matters

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Chemistry
• PGDip in Environmental Decision Making
• MSc Environmental Technology
• PhD Environmental Sciences

Biography

Olwenn Martin is an associate professor in Health and Environment at University College London.

Building on an academic interdisciplinary background in natural sciences and social sciences, she has developed expertise in the translation and application of both fundamental and observational research into policy, with the aim of tackling the global challenges related to mismanaged chemical emissions.

Her research focuses on 'emerging' issues for the risk assessment of contaminants, such as mixtures and endocrine disrupters. She is a European Parliament's representative on the European Chemical Agency's management board and acts as an expert on international and national regulatory panels such as the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) or the Food Standards Agency.

Declared interests

Consultancies and other fee-paid work

• Defra
• Food Packaging Forum
• ClientEarth
• ChemTrust
• UK Food Standard Agency
• European Environment Agency

Other personal interests

European parliament - ECHA management board

Qualifications

• MChem (Hons) Chemistry for Drug Discovery
• DPhil Organic Chemistry
• CChem

Biography

Paul Ylioja is a chartered chemist with significant experience in chemical regulatory impact assessment, especially in the context of applications for authorisation and restriction under REACH.

As a consultant at RPA between 2012 to 2015 he worked on preparing Applications for Authorisation and assessments of the impacts of proposed restrictions. Since then he has worked in industry regulatory roles.

His DPhil is in synthetic organic chemistry. His background in developing new process chemistries and in drug discovery means he has an excellent understanding of substance characterisation or identification and how structure activity relationship may be realistically applied.

Declared interests

Direct employment

Scott Bader Company Ltd

Shareholdings

Johnson Matthey

Clubs and other organisations

Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry and Society of Chemical Industry

Qualifications

• BSc Applied Chemistry
• PhD Microbial Metabolism  
• Executive MBA

Biography

Qintao Liu has significant experience in the chemical and life science sector, in hazard and risk assessment of chemicals, research operations, project management, open innovation and strategic problem solving.

She has provided scientific advice and worked with government, industry leaders, think tanks and other external stakeholders. Her work often involves regulatory bodies in different jurisdictions. This includes working to ensure compliance and reporting for Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency (MHRA), Good Laboratory Practice, REACH, Environmental Directives, animal testing, human bio-sample regulations, IT and data security.

Her earlier Ministerial appointment as a scientific adviser at Defra Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee (HSAC) exposed her to early (pre-REACH) thoughts, and allowed her to take a lead role for industry in steering evidence-based approaches to the safety and risk management of chemicals, active pharmaceutical ingredients and excipients in the UK and overseas.

Declared interests

Direct Employment

AstraZeneca plc.

Clubs and other organisations

Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Qualifications

• BA (Hons) Zoology
• PhD Applied Biology

Biography

Rhys Green is a population ecologist and Honorary Professor of Conservation Science at the University of Cambridge.

He has worked on several topics relevant to the conservation of wild species such as the effect of pollutants. His scientific publications include papers on the effects of veterinary non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs on populations of wild vultures in Asia and Europe, the effects of ammunition-derived lead on wild birds, including ducks, raptors and California condors and on public health and studies of the degree of fragmentation of lead bullets and shotgun pellets in game animals.

Declared interests

Direct employment

Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) (until May 2017)

Clubs and other organisations

Member of the RSPB

Qualifications

• BA (Hons) Economics
• MSc Economics and Social Policy Analysis

Biography

Richard Dubourg is an economist with 30 years of experience in academia, central government, regulation and consultancy. He has worked in areas including risk and safety, environmental economics and health economics.

For the last 10 years he has specialised in the economics of chemicals regulation, first as the lead on socio-economic analysis at the EU REACH regulator, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), and then as a consultant to companies and governmental organisations.

He is an expert in cost-benefit analysis, health impact assessment and non-market valuation, as well as chemicals regulation under REACH including authorisation and restriction.

Declared interests

Direct employment

The Economics Interface Limited

Qualifications

• BSc (Joint Hons) Applied Mathematics and Oceanography

Biography

Richard Murray-Smith worked for many years in his early career on regulatory risk assessment of new and existing substances, predominantly as an exposure expert but also supporting statistical analysis and modelling of ecotoxicological data sets. He became lead Environmental Risk Assessor at ICI group's (later AstraZeneca) Environmental Laboratory and eventually became head of AstraZeneca's Environmental Risk Assessment and Compliance Team.

In 2015 he began work as an independent consultant which he has been doing successfully since. He now provides technical expertise on environmental risk assessment issues to multinational clients, to support both regulatory applications for products and voluntary initiatives concerning assessment and control of manufacturing discharges.

Declared interests

None declared

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Chemistry (1st)
• PhD Chemical Physics

Biography

Robin Foster has a degree in Chemistry (first class) from University College London, and a PhD from Cambridge University.

He has12 years of experience advising on and enforcing health and safety requirements, working for HSE as HM Inspector of Health and Safety, with a focus on chemical safety.

He has more than 30 years of experience developing policy, including nearly 20 years working in EU and international fora on the safe supply and use of chemicals.

Declared interests

None declared

Qualifications

• BA (Hons) Economics with Information Technology
• MSc Economics

Biography

Rohit Mistry is a Director at Economics for the Environment Consultancy (EFTEC) specialising in environmental economics.

His experience spans 17 years, with nearly 10 years at EFTEC and over 5 and a half years at Entec (formerly AMEC and now Wood) as a senior economist. He has managed and worked on over a hundred projects both for the private and public sector.

He has worked on and managed a number of projects related to chemicals regulation ranging from the Impacts of REACH Authorisation for the European Commission, the Pharmaceuticals in the Environment Strategy for Defra and REACH Regulation to the Carcinogens Directive and Biocides Directive. He leads EFTEC's chemical policy work and is a leading EU expert in Socio-Economic Analysis (SEA) under REACH.

Declared interests

Direct employment

Economics for the Environment Consultancy Ltd

Qualifications

• BSc Biomedical Technology
• PhD Toxicology

Biography

Sarah Bull is a Eurotox Registered Toxicologist, and has over 20 years of experience in areas including in vitro, human, veterinary and regulatory toxicology and human health risk assessment.

She has worked at Health Protection Agency, and various consultancies, where she provided toxicology and risk assessment advice to Government agencies, Expert Governmental Committees on Toxicity, Mutagenicity and Carcinogenicity, and industrial stakeholders on the potential effects of chemicals on human health.

Her areas of expertise are the toxicology and human health risk assessment of chemicals in environmental media (such as water, soil and air), food and feed, and cosmetics and consumer products.

She is on the Royal Society of Chemistry Toxicology Committee and Environmental and Regulation Collective. She also sits on the Scientific Committee on Health, Environmental and Emerging Risks (SCHEER) Working Group on Rapid Risk Assessment and she is on the Office for Product Safety and Standards (OPSS) list of specialist experts.

Declared interests

Direct employment

• Toxicology and Risk Assessment consulting
• Cambridge Environmental Assessments

Qualifications

• Dipl.-Ing. (Diploma) Environmental and Chemical Engineering/Biotechnology
• Dr. rer. nat. (PhD) Pharmacy

Biography

Sibylle Ermler is a Research Fellow in Human Toxicology in the Department of Life Sciences, Brunel University London. She has expertise in the impact of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) and genotoxicants on human and environmental health.

Her research interests are in male and female reproductive health, metabolic disorders, and the developmental origins of health and disease. She is an expert in mixture toxicology with an interest in the translation of (mixture-) toxicology into chemical risk assessment. Her research focuses on the development and application of novel in vitro approaches with the aim of creating human relevant models for human disease, and reducing the requirement for animal testing. Additional interdisciplinary research interests include the impact of climate change on food systems and on human development and health.

Declared interests

Direct employment

Brunel University London

Clubs and other organisations

UK Committee on Toxicity, Joint Expert Group on Food Contact Materials

Qualifications

BSc (Hons) Physics

Biography

Sue Bullock has over 30 years of experience in international environmental, health and sustainability consultancy, specialising in product safety and stewardship.

She advises organisations around the world on all aspects of compliance with chemical and product regulations such as EU and UK REACH, on strategies for sustainable products, and on the characterisation and effective management of environmental and human health risks across product life-cycles and value chains.

An expert in applying risk-based approaches to new and often critical problems, she is highly practiced in working with experts and synthesising complex evidence across disciplines, bringing focus and clarity to key issues, and integrating appropriate governance to deliver environmental and health improvements. She has led and prepared numerous EU REACH applications for authorisation since 2011, covering a range of chemicals, uses and industry sectors, directing major and ground-breaking upstream applications for consortia (CTAC, CCST, GCCA, EAAC), downstream group applications as well as individual downstream applications.

Declared interests

Direct employment

TSG Consulting

Qualifications, biography and declared interests pending.

Qualifications

• BSc Astrophysics
• BSc Mathematics and Economics
• MSc Economics

Biography

Thea Sletten is an Associate Director at Economics for the Environment Consultancy (EFTEC).

She has expertise in economic techniques and an in-depth knowledge of chemical risk management. She joined EFTEC in 2018 as an expert in economics for chemicals regulations and has since managed and worked on a large number of projects.

She is one of the leading economists in the field of chemical risk management and was appointed by the Norwegian Ministry of Environment to the Committee for Socio-economic Analysis (SEAC) under REACH in 2013. She was an active SEAC member for more than four years, taking on a number of rapporteurships as well as being involved in the development of guidance materials and training of SEAC members. As part of her role in the Norwegian Environment Agency she also advised representatives in other chemicals policy committees, including the Member State Committee, the REACH Committee and the Persistent Organic Pollutants Review Committee (POPRC). Over the years, she has been actively involved in the development of methodology for assessing socio-economic impact of regulating persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic substances and very persistent and very bioaccumulative substances, including preparation of several ANNEX XV restriction proposals.

Declared interests

Direct employment

Economics for the Environment Consultancy Ltd

Qualifications

• BSc Physiology
• PhD Toxicological effects on hepatobiliary function in vitro
• FRSC
• FRSE
• FIBiol
• CBiol
• ILTM.

Biography

Vicki Stone is Professor of Toxicology in the Institute of Biological Chemistry, Biophysics and Bioengineering, Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh. She is also an Honorary Principal Investigator at the Institute of Occupational Medicine and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Vicki Stone was editor-in-chief of the journal Nanotoxicology from 2005 to 2011. She has coordinated several EU projects, most recently www.h2020gracious.eu, which supports the safety assessment, safer design and risk assessment of nanomaterials.

Declared interests

Funding of research projects

• Horizon 2020
• ECFIA
• BYK Altana
• GSK
• Unilever
• Kingspan
• UKRI

Indirect support

• BASF
• Plasmachem
• Nouryon
• Laurentia
• Avanzare
• CIAC
• Mintek
• Mattek
• Insphero

Qualifications

• MSc Aquatic Resource Management
• BSc (hons) Zoology

Biography

Peter Simpson is an ecotoxicologist and expert in the risk assessment and risk management of chemicals with over 20 years of professional experience.

Peter is a Director at Affinity Element Limited an independent consultancy company.
From 2014 to 2022, Peter was a Senior Scientific Officer at the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) where he worked on the REACH Authorisation and REACH restriction processes, including leading the development of the restriction of ‘intentionally-added’ microplastics.

From 2019 to 2022 he coordinated the REACH restriction process at ECHA where he supervised the development of proposals for restrictions by ECHA and supported ECHA’s scientific committees for risk (RAC) and socio-economic analysis (SEAC).

Prior to joining ECHA, Peter held positions at a UK technical consultancy and at the UK Environment Agency.

Declared interests

Direct employment

ECHA as Senior Scientific Officer/Restriction Process Coordinator (from 1 April 2014 until 31 December 2022).

Consultancies and other fee paying work

• Independent consultant
• Senior Advisor at Rud Pedersen Public Affairs
• Specialist and Safe and Sustainable Chemistry at Apeiron-Team

Qualifications

• Ph.D. (Econ.)
• M.Sc. (Pol. Sc.)
• M.Sc. (Econ.)

Biography

Matti Vainio has led the preparation of EU-wide regulations to reduce risks related to greenhouse gases, air pollution and chemicals, including impact assessment, alternatives assessment and cost-benefit analysis.

He is currently Professor of Practice in Green Transition at the University of Helsinki. He is developing curricula on climate and environmental topics and carrying out research on how chemicals regulation can be further developed using market-based instruments.

He lead risk management activities at European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) in 2007-23 being responsible for the management of the authorisation application and restrictions processes of hazardous chemicals under REACH Regulation and for socio-economic analysis, including the Committee for Socio-economic Analysis. He also established ECHA’s capability to propose EU’s occupational exposure limits. With OECD and the European Commission he established a joint programme to estimate the willingness-to-pay of reduced risks related to health and the environment.

In 1998-2007 Matti Vainio worked at the European Commission being part of the team developing EU’s CO2 emissions trading system, preparing the regulation of fluorinated greenhouse gases and led the “Clean Air for Europe” programme. Earlier he worked at the UN (Geneva), Finnconsult, Finnish Foreign Ministry, Central Statistical Office (Zimbabwe) and the Helsinki School of Economics.

Direct employment

University of Helsinki, Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, from 1 April 2024.

ECHA as Head of Risk Management Unit until 31 August 2023

Consultancies and other fee paying work

• Special Advisor at Fipra
• Independent consultant including working on chemical related projects

Scientific Societies and other organisations

Member of the European Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.

Qualifications

• BSc Biochemistry (Hons)
• MSc Toxicology
• PhD Molecular Toxicology

Biography

Meera Cush is a qualified and experienced toxicologist who holds EUROTOX and UK Registered Toxicologist accreditation together with Chartered Biologist status. With over 20 years’ experience in human health toxicological risk assessment and regulatory toxicology, Meera has experience in risk assessment of chemicals found in food and food contact materials, industrial applications, biocides, the environment and of consumer products.

Meera has previously worked as a toxicologist for the Health Protection Agency/Public Health England and several consultancies collaborating and leading diverse international teams initiating, designing and delivering on research and innovation projects. She has extensive experience in interpreting and advising on complex risk assessment scenarios for novel and innovative substances, writing safety (toxicological) dossiers, devising responsible product development / product stewardship strategies, mitigating risk and communicating this to stakeholders.

As a current Expert Member of the Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food, Consumer Products and the Environment Meera advises the UK government and government agencies on whether substances are likely to cause cancer. Meera’s interests are in mechanistic toxicology with a regulatory focus.

Declared interests

Scientific Societies and other organisations

• The British Toxicology Society (full member)
• Royal Society of Biology (member)

Non-fee paying work:

• Expert Member of Committee on Carcinogenicity of Chemicals in Food
• Consumer Products and the Environment (COT)
• Assessor for Chartered Biologist Accreditation (Royal Society of Biology)

Qualifications

• BSc Chemical Engineering
• Dip Occ Hyg
• MFOH (Ret)

Biography

Robin Chapman has almost 45 years employment experience in multi-national chemical companies and associated industries with focus on process research and development, chemical plant commissioning, operations management and process safety.

Qualified in Occupational Hygiene, Robin led the establishment of an in-house Occupational Hygiene department and pioneered development and validation of novel personal exposure, monitoring technologies for organic vapours and noise. He has experience in managing a comprehensive corporate Occupational Health department covering all Occupational Health disciplines across multiple industries at 30 locations and 13 countries.

Robin Chapman is a past member and Chair of Chemical Industries Association Occupational Hygiene and Occupational Health Advisory Groups. Robin has previously collaborated with HSE during the development of COSHH, the associated guidelines and COSHH Essentials and the banding concept.

Robin is also a former member of the Working Group on the Assessment of Toxic Chemicals (WATCH), the Advisory Committee on Toxic Substances (ACTS) and the COSHH Essentials Working Group.

Most recently, Robin participated in EU projects addressing improvement of CBRN aspects at high hazard chemical sites in some middle eastern countries.

Declared interests

Scientific Societies and other organisations

• Membership of British Occupational Hygiene Society
• Retired Member of the Faculty of Occupational Hygiene

Qualifications

• PhD – Ecotoxicology
• MSc - Ecotoxicology & Pollution Monitoring
• BSc (Hons) Marine & Freshwater Biology

Biography

Oliver Warwick is the Managing Director of Vitis Regulatory. With over 20 years’ experience in risk assessment and risk management of chemicals, he has led multi-disciplinary teams to successful completion of technical projects on chemicals risk management, including the delivery of REACH registration dossiers for over 100 substances.

Oliver’s PhD in ecotoxicology was researching the effects of chemicals on the biochemistry, physiology, and ecology of freshwater organisms. He went on to work at the Environment Agency’s Chemicals Assessment Unit and on direct toxicity assessment.

As a consultant, Oliver has worked on several chemical risk reduction strategies under pre-REACH legislation. He also led and provided technical expertise for projects delivering guidance documentation for EU REACH (including Authorisation, and Socio-economic Analysis (SEA). In addition, Oliver has input to, and led projects that have assessed and evaluated the implementation of Environmental Quality Standards, and workplace Occupational Exposure Limits. More recently he has provided key input to projects that have provided the technical support for UK and EU REACH authorisation applications, policy development such as exposure assessments and analysis of alternatives for restriction proposals, and the assessment and review of the effectiveness of legislation and policy on chemicals at UK and EU level.

Declared interests

Consultancies and other fee paying work

Vitis Regulatory

Qualifications

• B.Sc. (Hons) Applied Chamistry
• M.Sc. Surface Chemistry & Colloids
• Ph.D. Chemistry
• M.R.S.C.
• C.Chem.

Biography

Les Howarth is an experienced chemist who has worked in a number of diverse industries. After obtaining his Ph.D. on the colloid chemistry of clays at the University of Bristol, Les spent 3 years doing postdoctoral research at Sheffield University on dental cements.

Since then, Les has worked in the aluminium industry (Alcan), ink-jet printing (Xaar), fabrics (Gore-Tex), soda-lime and chemical oxygen generators (Molecular Products) and with food starches (Tate & Lyle, near Chicago) amongst others.

Les is currently employed as the plant chemist for Celtic Renewables in Scotland who are developing technology to convert low-value byproducts, residues and waste into high-value green chemicals which directly displace chemicals made from gas and oil. As part of this role, Les has developed the site chemical safety procedures to ensure compliance with COSHH, REACH etc.

In addition, Les has training and experience of statistics and 5 years experience of chemistry patent analysis.

Declared interests

Direct Employment

Celtic Renewables Limited

Clubs and other organisations

Life member of the Angling Trust.

Qualifications

• Bsc (hons) Applied chemistry
• MSc Occupational Hygiene
• Diploma in Occupational Hygiene (BOHS)

Biography

Dave Marsh has worked in Industry for ICI/Zeneca/AstraZeneca and ExxonMobil in a variety of roles. At AstraZeneca he was a regional Industrial Hygienist covering UK and western Europe.

Working for ExxonMobil in Industrial hygiene and Exposure scientist roles, Dave had
responsibility for Industrial hygiene services and developing systems and processes to
enable regulatory compliance with REACH for health based conditions. As a regional Hygienist he developed the system in use at ExxonMobil operational sites for demonstrating compliance with REACH extended safety datasheet information,
specifically the operational conditions and risk management measures on substances and mixtures supplied to sites. He continued to support regulatory compliance with input on health based criteria provided downstream on REACH information.

Dave transitioned into ExxonMobil biomedical sciences inc (EMBSI) as an exposure
scientist. During this role he provided support for ExxonMobil and the oil and gas industry through consortia (CONCAWE, LOA etc.) and non profit organisations in regulatory compliance and registration support. Dave was an active member of groups within CEFIC, ECETOC, ESIG providing Exposure science expertise whilst maintaining legislative compliance for ExxonMobil whilst using a number of exposure modelling tools for worker and consumer exposure.

Dave was involved with providing data for lobbying regarding RAC OEL reviews for
substances with particular interest for ExxonMobil. Working with ESIG, Dave developed a control banding approach using ECETOC TRA to develop SWEDs for ESIG products.

Declared interests

Pension

AstraZeneca and ExxonMobil

Qualifications

• BSc – Applied Physics and Electronics
• Diploma in Corporate Governance – Corporate Governance Institute
• Postgraduate Certificate in Project Management Chartered Engineer (expired)
• Fellow of Institute of Engineering and Technology (expired)

Biography

Steve George worked 33 years in the Aerospace industry, in a wide range of range of cross-enterprise engineering, supply chain, leadership and functional roles. In this time, 10 years were involved leading chemical regulatory issues across all affected business functions from design supply chain, operations, health and safety and business governance.

Steve has direct experience of REACH processes in real world companies and supply chain, including Authorisation applications as both downstream user and in consortia for upstream applications.

Steve has cross-industry exposure through involvement in trade associations dealing with technical aspects of chemical regulation at an international, European and UK level.

Declared interests

Consultancies and other fee paying work

• REACHLaw
• Siemens Energy
• SG Advisory Services Ltd

Shareholdings

• Urban Electric
• Gravitricity
• Cornish Lithium
• Aviva
• BT Group
• A range of collective funds and investment trusts

Other public appointments

• Marston Montgomery Parish Council

Qualifications

• MSc Occupational Hygiene
• BOHS Diploma of Professional Competence
• Retired CFFOH
• Retired CFIOSH

Biography

Roger Alesbury has over 40 years’ experience as a professional occupational hygienist, working internationally in a variety of industries, including the oil, gas, and chemical sectors. Prior to retirement from full-time employment in 2010, he was Global Head of Industrial Hygiene for BP. He has an MSc in occupational hygiene from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, the (BOHS) Diploma of Professional Competence and is a Past President of BOHS. In 2011, Roger was awarded the ACGIH William Steiger Memorial Award for contributing to advancements in occupational safety and health; in 2016, the AIHA Yant award for outstanding contributions to the industrial hygiene profession; and the 2017, the IOHA Lifetime Achievement Award to mark continuing outstanding contribution to occupational hygiene.

Declared interests

Scientific Societies and other organisations

• One of the founders of the registered charity – The Occupational Hygiene Training Association. Chaired the board until June 2017, now an adviser.

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Biochemistry
• MSc Toxicology
• PhD Genetic Toxicology

Biography

Dr Sue Hubbard is an independent human health regulatory toxicologist. Previously she worked for the UK HSE (1986-1990) as Head of Pesticides Registration Section, then Zeneca (Formerly ICI) Central Toxicology Laboratory (1990 -1994) as Legislation Group Manager. From 1994-2015 she worked for Rio Tinto firstly for the Minerals group focussed on Borates and from 2008 was the Chief Toxicologist for the global Rio Tinto business responsible for the toxicology and regulatory compliance across the portfolio. She retired in 2015.

Over the years she has represented industry in many fora particularly on classification and labelling, including as a CEFIC expert on the EU Technical Committee for Classification and Labelling Working Group under the old CLP system. (no longer in existence). From 2000, as co-chair of the Business, Industry & Advisory Committee to the OECD GHS TF, the industry advisory group to the OECD GHS TF during the early development of the global GHS until the activity was taken over by the UN. She was also closely involved in the development of the EU human health guidelines on CLP as an industry representative.

As a consultant she advises various business and industry groups on toxicology and the classification of a number of substances but in particular, inorganic substances. Her primary focus in recent years has been providing technical support and analysis for new regulatory studies and support for specific toxicology issues such as reproductive effects, genotoxicity and particle toxicology as well as oversight on substance dossiers.

Declared interests

Consultancies and other fee paying work:

Independent Consultant on ad hoc basis under own company SAHCo Ltd.

Independent RegulatoryToxicology advisor to:

• International Molybdenum Assocation (IMOA)
• Iron Platform (IP Reach Consortium ) and IP rep on the Iron Oxides Reach Consortium (IORC)
• International Copper Association

Previous Employment

HSE, ICI, Rio Tinto

Shareholdings

Rio Tinto

Scientific Societies and other organisations

Fellow of the British Toxicology Society (BTS)

Member Biochemical Society

Qualifications

• BSc in Biochemistry
• PhD in Biochemistry, investigating lipid peroxidation as a mechanism of toxicity in mammals

Biography

On completion of his PhD in biochemistry/toxicology, Steve Fairhurst worked as an experimental toxicologist at the Ministry of Defence, before moving to a toxicology post in the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) in 1986.

Steve has experience in personal delivery of toxicological hazard and risk assessments for chemicals; and in critical appraisal of such work done by others. He has an in-depth understanding of the relevant regulatory frameworks and the consequences of toxicological information for regulatory purposes, particularly for industrial and commercial chemicals, biocides, and pesticides.

Steve was appointed to serve on, and to chair scientific advisory committees in UK (“WATCH” Committee) and EU (Scientific Committee on Occupational Exposure Limits, SCOEL). He has (co-)authored peer-reviewed published papers and book chapters; has been a regular external lecturer on UK university toxicology courses; held positions in the British Toxicology Society and, during retirement, have undertaken a small amount of contract work.

Declared interests

Funding of research projects

Qualifications

• BSc (Hon) Mathematical Sciences and Chemistry
• PhD in Chemical and Process Engineering

Biography

Madeleine Bussemaker completed her PhD at The University of Western Australia's Centre for Energy focusing on the use of ultrasound for the pretreatment of lignocellulosic biomass for biorefinery applications (2013). As part of her PhD, Madeleine spent some time at Beijing Forestry University and at Qingdao Institute of Bioenergy and Bioprocess Technology, (QIBEBT) where she worked on biomass pretreatment and characterisation.

Madeleine moved to Surrey in 2013 where she was involved with biorefinery supply chain optimisation, based on a techno-economic assessment of a novel treatment of lignocellulose. Since moving to Surrey Madeleine was appointed as a lecturer (now senior lecturer) and is currently involved in projects on water/environmental remediation (focussing on per- and poly-fluoroalkyl substances, PFAS), sustainable hair dyes, sustainable supply chains, parametric studies on sonochemical effects, waste/biomass processing and classification, and ultrasonic effects in biological systems.

Madeleine also spent time in industry at Arcadis during 2018-19 through the Royal Academy of Engineering Industrial Fellowship.

Declared interests

Direct Employment

University of Surrey

Consultancies and other fee paying work

• Element 6
• Arcadis

Scientific Societies and other organisations

Member of the Royal Society of Chemistry

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Zoology
• PhD
• FRSB

Biography

Jason Weeks is a professor of environmental toxicology and risk, and a Director at IEH Consulting Ltd. A former UK Co-opted member of the European Medicines Agency who sat on the CVMP and chaired the Environmental Risk Assessment Working Party and attended the EU Standing Committee on behalf of the UK. Jason is an advisor to FAO, WOAH and WHO, Defra, the EU, ECHA and VMD and a current member of the Veterinary Products Committee. Jason also Chairs the VPC (Veterinary Products Committee) working group on companion animal parasiticides highlighting environmental concerns and also the Pharmaceuticals in the Environment intergovernmental group.

Jason is an experienced and passionate environmental toxicologist/ risk assessor with extensive experience in human and environmental health. He is a global leader in ecological risk assessment and a toxicologist with broad research and project management experience in Europe, Africa, East Asia, Korea, China, Central & Latin America, Middle Asia and the Caribbean. He has published in excess of 120 peer-reviewed high impact publications across a broad range of environmental themes centred on environmental risk assessment and understanding of complex systems. Jason has worked on behalf of organisations such as SETAC, ESF, WHO, EFSA, UNEP, NATO, UN, FAO, WOAH, IPCC, UNIDO, DFID, the EU and World Bank. Registered expert consultant to UNIDO, EU, SCHEER, EMA, EFSA and the World Bank.

He is also a member of the UK's HSAC.

Declared interests

Consultancies and other fee paying work

• Director/ owner of IEH Consulting Ltd
• Member of Veterinary Products Committee
• Member of HSAC

Qualifications

• MSc Occupational Hygiene
• PhD Health & Safety Management

Biography

Karen Niven has been a professional occupational hygienist for over 4 decades, although ceased full-time employment in 2021. She has in-depth knowledge of many industrial sectors covering both private and public sectors as well as academia and independent consultancy.

She was Product Stewardship General Manger at Shell (from 2017 – 2021), where she drew on her occupational hygiene expertise in the multidisciplinary European Chemicals Industry Association (Cefic) as a member of their Program Council for Product Stewardship,

During her time as Global Health, Risk and Governance Manager at Shell (between 2012 and 2017) she was a Board member of The European Centre for Ecotoxicology and Toxicology of Chemicals (ECETOC).

She was also active for many years in the International Occupational Hygiene Association (IOHA), firstly as their treasurer and then their President in 2015. She developed the IOHA communication strategy and was a prime mover in securing and delivering for the British Occupational Hygiene Society (BOHS) the honor of organizing the IOHA Conference in London in 2015.

Declared interests

Shareholdings

Shell

Scientific Societies and other organisations

Chartered Fellow of the British Occupational Hygiene Society (CFFOH)

Qualifications

• BA (Hons.) Economics
• MSc Economics
• PhD in Economics

Biography

Giles Atkinson is Professor of Environmental Policy at the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE). He is an environmental economist with over 32 years of professional experience, 25 of which have been in LSE’s Department of Geography & Environment. Giles’ research and teaching expertise focuses on two broad areas: sustainability economics and economic appraisal. He is a co-author of two flagship book publications on cost-benefit analysis (CBA) and the environment for OECD and has considerable experience of practical use of CBA as well as a track record of well-cited academic publications. More recently, his work has included research on the use of economic valuation in chemical regulation. Giles was previously a member of the UK Natural Capital Committee from 2012-2015 and has been a member of various expert committees for organisations such as The World Bank, Office for National Statistics and Defra.

Declared interests

Direct Employment

London School of Economics and Political Science

Consultancies and other fee paying work

• OECD, SWACHE project (Surveys on Willingness-to-Pay to Avoid Negative Chemicals-Related Health Impacts)
• OECD, SACRE project (Surveys of Willingness-to-pay to Avoid Negative Chemicals-Related Environmental Impact), Member of Expert Working Group

Qualifications

• MSc Occupational Hygiene
• Registered Occupational Hygienist

Biography

Alison Margary is a Chartered Member of the British Occupational Hygiene Society. She has been practising as an Occupational Hygiene specialist since the early 1980’s within the energy and petrochemical sectors working for Shell and in her own consultancy since 2017. A significant focus of her career has been working in regulatory chemical health risk management, including ‘workplace’ health risk assessments under the Control of Substances Hazardous to Health (COSHH) and ‘substance’ health risk assessments required initially by the Existing Substances Regulation and subsequently REACH. This has included being involved in EU regulatory and industry working groups to develop the supporting Technical Guidance Documents addressing human exposure, and as Shell’s lead in implementing the human health exposure assessments for its large portfolio of chemical substances marketed for use across multiple industry sectors. In contributing to the guidance on carrying out effective Chemical Safety Assessments, she has sought to ensure good occupational hygiene practice is at their core in assessing exposures and recommending appropriate and practical risk management measures for the intended sectors of use.

Throughout her career, Alison has participated in many company, cross industry and regulatory working groups, often involving multi-disciplinary teams, pooling expertise to challenge approachesand develop standards and guidelines for effective exposure assessment and control. This has involved carrying out, commissioning and/or overseeing research to consolidate data and plug gaps in knowledge. Examples include: Consolidating cross-sector exposure data for particular activities and its interpretation; effectiveness of workplace risk management measures; consumer habits and practices; clarification of sector-specific end uses of chemical substances and associated typical safe handling measures; development of workplace and consumer chemical exposure assessment tools.

Declared interests

Direct Employment

Margary Wade Limited consultancy

Shareholdings

Shell

Scientific Societies and other organisations

• Member of the British Occupational Hygiene Society
• Chartered Member of the Faculty of Occupational Hygiene
• Co-opted member of the Board of the Faculty of Occupational Health Nursing
• Member of the Council for Work and Health

Qualifications

• BSc Economics and Mathematical Sciences
• MSc Environmental Technology (specialisation in Energy Policy)
• BSc Geography

Biography

Matt Georges is an applied economist with over 20 years’ experience in environmental policy and regulation in both the public and private sectors.

He is currently director of his own consultancy focusing on using economics to improve decision-making, where he works with a range of public and private sector organisations in the UK and across Europe. In his previous role he was Economics Manager at the Environment Agency where he led a range of industrial regulation projects from financial analysis of waste crime operations to cost-benefit analysis in major industries, such as iron and steel, lime and cement, and oil refining. During this time he was also a key member of the group that produced the UK’s first apprenticeship for economists.

Declared interests

Consultancies and other fee paying work

Ceflex Initiative

Qualifications

• Honorary Clinical Professor, Department of Life Sciences, University of Warwick
• Professor of Practice for Environmental Engineering, Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Newcastle
• PhD: Bacterial metabolism of nitrate ester pharmaceuticals and explosives, Preclinical Sciences
• BSc Applied Sciences with focus on Biochemistry and Microbiology

Biography

Jason Snape is an environmental sustainability professional with >30 years’ experience; > 20 years’ of which have been conducting, drafting, reviewing and approving environmental hazard and risk assessments for a variety of chemical classes (general chemicals, biocides, human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, personal care products, petrochemicals and other household products). He has firsthand experience in conducting all OECD 100 and 300 series of test guidelines within a Good Laboratory Practice (GLP) environment; especially for ‘difficult’ substances.

Jason chaired the original ECHA REACH endpoint working group that generated the REACH technical guidance for degradation and PBT endpoints (Chapters R7 and R11). As a result, he has a detailed understanding of the approaches to setting acceptable limits based on hazard, an ability to assess environmental exposure arising from chemical manufacture and use with an understanding of chemical use at industrial sites and by consumers, and cross-sectoral knowledge of the efficacy of different risk management measures.

Jason understands the impact that chemicals regulation can have on companies and markets; he has firsthand experience in conducting cost/ benefit analysis of chemicals regulations regarding the authorised use of specific chemicals within ECHA and POPRC, and the financial impact that end of pipe solutions proposed under the Water Framework Directive pose.

He has experience in genomic and post-genomic technologies and their application to toxicology and environmental toxicology; having been the science coordinator for the UKRI NERC environmental genomics programmes for a decade.

Jason is now a full research professor at the University of York

Declared interests

Previous Employment

AstraZeneca

Scientific Societies and other organisations

Honorary Professor at the Universities of Warwick and Newcastle upon Tyne

Pension

AstraZeneca