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Speakers

Speakers for the Commercial Nuclear Waste Summit 2007 include.

bullet Michael Aebersold - Swiss Federal Office of Energy
bullet Richard Beake - Bechtel Management Company Limited
bullet Paul Campbell - Costain
bullet Stuart Cowperthwaite - White Young Green
bullet Dr. David Deegan - Tetronics Limited
bullet John Earp - BNES
bullet Paul Golan - United States Department of Energy
bullet Ron Gorham - NDA
bullet John Haddon - Cogent Sector Skills Council
bullet Christian Kirchsteiger - European Commission
bullet John Lehew - Dounreay
bullet Claes Lindberg - SKB International Consultants
bullet Jean Llewellyn - National Skills Academy
bullet Paul Longsworth - Fluor
bullet Steven R. Morgan - Sellafield
bullet John Palmer - Mott MacDonald Ltd
bullet Jussi Palmu - Posiva Oy
bullet Simon Parsons - Trawsfynydd Decommissioning Site
bullet Julia Pyke - Herbert Smith LLP
bullet Mark Richards - Pinsent Masons
bullet Peter Ritson - UKAEA
bullet Dr. Tim Stone - Senior Advisor
bullet Leo Thompson - AMEC
bullet Ewoud Verhoef - Covra
bullet David W. Wallace - CDM
bullet Pete Wylie - British Nuclear Group Sellafield Ltd


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Michael Aebersold - Conference Speaker   Dr. Michael Aebersold

HEAD, DISPOSAL OF RADIOACTIVE WASTE SECTION
SWISS FEDERAL OFFICE OF ENERGY (SFOE)
     
Areas of responsibility
Nuclear waste disposal policy
Political, legal, technical and administrative duties; authorisation procedures, liaison with national and international authorities and organizations; media work

Responsible for the definition and planning of the site selection procedures

Financing: decommissioning and waste disposal funds
Supervision and coordination of cost estimates and financial proposals; media work

Collaboration with various bodies
  • Member of the Federal Working Group of Nuclear Waste Disposal (AGNEB)
  • Member of the Forum on Stakeholder Confidence (FSC)
  • Advisor of the Decommissioning and Waste Management Fund
  • Former Secretary of the Expert Group on Disposal Concepts for Radioactive Waste (EKRA)
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Richard Beake - Conference Speaker   Richard Beake

DIRECTOR OF BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT
BECHTEL MANAGEMENT COMPANY
     
Richard has 30 years of experience in civil and environmental engineering and business management. His has worked in the petroleum, nuclear, environmental and civil infrastructure sectors in the UK, Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East. He is a chartered civil engineer.

Currently Richard is responsible for Bechtel’s Business Development in the UK nuclear decommissioning market. Since joining Bechtel 13 years ago Richard managed the environmental services group for the Europe, Africa and Middle East region, he then took responsibility for business development in the environmental, civil infrastructure and nuclear sectors. He has negotiated construction contracts of up to £150 million for lump sum engineering, procurement, and construction (EPC) bids and up to £200 million for build-own-operate water and wastewater concessions.

Richard was a key member of Bechtel’s team advising the DTI on the establishment of the NDA, he had specific responsibility for developing the organisational structure of the NDA and for initial mobilisation of the organisation.

Previously Richard was the Managing Director of CH2M Hill UK Ltd, establishing the company in the UK; Managing Partner of Dames and Moore in the UK and Regional Manager of Dames and Moore in the Arabian Gulf (UAE, Oman, Qatar).

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Paul Campbell - Conference Speaker   Paul Campbell

NUCLEAR DIRECTOR
COSTAIN
     
Paul Campbell is a BSc (Hons.) qualified Mechanical Engineer with a postgraduate qualification in Business Management. He has twenty-five years' experience within the UK Nuclear industry, including 14 years in the Defence sector working on the Naval Nuclear Propulsion Programme. The past eleven years he focused on meeting the needs of UK Civil Nuclear sector for both power generation and decommissioning.

Paul joined Costain Ltd in April 2006 to head their Nuclear Sector, having previously completed 5 years as Managing Director of Rolls-Royce Nuclear Engineering Services Limited.

Paul is an active member of the NiA, sitting on and contributing to the valued out put of the following Working Groups; Industrials Affairs, Tier 1 and New Nuclear Build.

He is the past Chairman of the NiA’s Special Purpose Equipment Suppliers’ Forum, established to represent the interests of the industry’s Tier 3 Manufacturers.

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Stuart Cowperthwaite - Conference Speaker   Stuart Cowperthwaite

DIRECTOR
WHITE YOUNG GREEN
     
Stuart Cowperthwaite is Director of the Cumbria office of White Young Green, the company’s lead office for the Nuclear sector, providing multi-disciplinary consultancy services to clients including the NDA, British Nuclear Group and UKAEA. He is Director of Cumbria Nuclear Solutions Ltd, an alliance of nuclear decommissioning contractors and consultants that recently secured a Nuclear Decommissioning Framework contract with British Nuclear Group. Stuart is also Framework Director of a multi-disciplinary consultant team that is providing regeneration, socio-economic, commercial and infrastructure proposals to West Lakes Renaissance for a number of major sites in Cumbria.

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Dr David Deegan - Conference Speaker   Dr. David Deegan

TECHNICAL DIRECTOR
TETRONICS LIMITED
     
Dr. David Deegan is a member of the Chartered Institute of Materials, Mining and Metallurgy (IOM3), with project interests in waste reuse, hazardous waste management, stabilisation/solidification and waste processing. In 2006 he became the Technical Director of both Tetronics Limited and Platinum Recoveries Limited (PRL). The latter operates a fully integrated 10,000 tonnes per year waste recovery facility and is the UK’s first independently licensed thermal plasma waste recovery facility. David has recently carried out work for the nuclear power industry and investigated the vitrification of asbestos, PCM and wet ILW, with emphasis on the properties of the final wasteforms. He currently project manages a dti Technology Programme project entitled ‘Integrated solution for air pollution control (APC) residues using DC plasma technology’, this is a three year project with a budget of £2.37M. This project addresses the limitation of current APC residue disposal mechanisms and engineers the final product for re-use as opposed to disposal, effectively closing the recycling loop. The key characterisicts of the projects are:
  • Industry-led proposals
  • Collaborative projects that involve science-to-business
  • Projects that benefit a number of business sectors
  • Clear exploitation route
  • dti funding at 49.99 % of the net eligible costs.
David has been actively involved in vitrification, gasification, smelting and pollution control projects for over nine years. He has successfully project managed projects from conception through to completion and managed many smaller upgrade and refurbishment projects. He has a thorough understanding of the regulatory framework that surrounds the Environmental Sectors, from plant permitting through to compliance monitoring of installations and residues.

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John Earp - Conference Speaker   John Earp

PRESIDENT
BNES
     
John is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer and a Fellow of both the Institutions of Mechanical and Nuclear Engineers. He has more than 40 years experience in the electricity supply industry and more than 30 years related to Nuclear. His career included nuclear design, engineering, plant operation and maintenance on both AGR and Magnox reactors. Working in the USA he evaluated business and management performance related to safe and reliable nuclear operation in a business environment. Latterly his career has focused on strategy development and on supplying services to assist the setting up of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. He is currently Strategy Director for Aker Kvaerner Nuclear, President of the British Nuclear Energy Society, a member of the NIA Board and the NTEC External Advisory Board.

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Paul Golan - Conference Speaker   Paul Golan

PRINCIPAL DEPUTY DIRECTOR
OFFICE OF CIVILIAN RADIOACTIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF ENERGY
     
Paul Golan has served in a wide variety of key leadership roles within the US Department of Energy including as acting Director of the Office of Civilian Radioactive Waste, acting Assistant Secretary for Environmental Management, as well as the Chief Operating Officer for Environmental Management. Mr. Golan has more than 20 years of experience in the nuclear operations and environmental cleanup field, and has developed in-depth experience in project management, safety, quality, environmental restoration, and production operations. Mr. Golan has received two Presidential Rank Awards (Meritorious 2003 and Distinguished 2004).

In his current position, Mr. Golan directed a major turn around of the Yucca Mountain Project, the nation’s designated high level radioactive waste repository. This included adapting a canistered-based approach to spent nuclear fuel handling, developing legislation to extensively redefine and improve the Nuclear Waste Policy Act, establishing Sandia National Laboratory as the project’s lead laboratory, and successfully addressing and fixing numerous quality issues that had negatively impacted the project. Mr. Golan was credited by Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman as “a valuable member of my senior leadership team, who stepped in and served so ably as the acting director of the office for the past year. His diligence, passion, and perseverance have brought the program through a difficult transition period and has put us squarely on a path toward success.”

In addition during this period, Mr. Golan helped lead the development of the Department of Energy’s Global Nuclear Energy Partnership, a plan to significantly expand the use of nuclear power while addressing the waste and proliferation issues associated with nuclear power and the fuel cycle.

From 2001 to 2005, Mr. Golan served in critical leadership positions in the Office of Environmental Management, the largest and most complex environmental and nuclear cleanup project in the world, with an annual operating budget of over $6 billion and 40,000 employees. During this time, a number of major environmental cleanup projects were completed

From 1995 through 2001, Mr. Golan served in numerous leadership positions at Rocky Flats Cleanup Project in Denver. Mr. Golan implemented a new approach to the federal contract process resulting in reduced time and costs to the federal government. Rocky Flats completed its cleanup in October 2005, years earlier and hundred of millions of dollars less than the most optimistic estimates and stands today as the largest super-fund cleanup ever completed in the United States.

Before joining the Department of Energy, Golan worked for EG&G Inc and held a series of positions with increasing responsibility in the areas of nuclear training and production operations starting as a first line supervisor and ending that assignment as Director of Non-Nuclear Production Operations responsible for over 600 employees. Mr. Golan served six years as a commissioned officer in the United States Navy and, deployed to the Persian Gulf onboard USS Texas in operation Desert Shield and qualified as engineer in the US Naval Nuclear Propulsion Program.

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Ron Gorham - Conference Speaker   Ron Gorham

HEAD OF SUPPLY CHAIN DEVELOPMENT
NDA
     
Ron Gorham is Head of Supply Chain Development and Commercial Relationships for the NDA with key responsibility for ensuring that the various Supply Chains are robust and competitive to deliver the NDA’s mission. He brings to the post over 20 years experience in contracting and public sector procurement within the nuclear field the last 15 years of which was specialising in creating and maintaining a genuinely competitive decommissioning market. Ron worked opposite the Liabilities Management Unit which was the precursor to the NDA negotiating one of the incumbent contracts. He also worked extensively with the UK Regulators on a wide range of activities from property matters, through sales and acquisitions to a potential nuclear Private Finance Initiative. This has given him valuable knowledge of working within the UK’s tightly regulated environment. Ron is a Charted Manager and a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supplies as well as being a high risk reviewer for the UK’s Office Of Government and Commerce which allows him to stay abreast of developments in other markets.

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John Haddon - Conference Speaker   John Haddon

NUCLEAR INDUSTRY SKILLS DIRECTOR
COGENT SECTOR SKILLS COUNCIL
     
John Haddon is Nuclear Industry Skills Director at Cogent Sector Skills Council, where he is also project manager for industry passports. Cogent is participating in the National Skills Academy for Nuclear project as well as running other projects with the industry and developing Standards and qualifications.

Apart from a short secondment to DTI, John Haddon has worked with the nuclear industry since joining BNFL from University in 1969; with Westinghouse Europe in 1972 in a marketing role for nuclear fuel, with to Alstec in the UK from 1978 and 10 years later to Simon-Carves, both in commercial and sales functions. In 1995 he joined the NIA as Head of Trade & Industry and in 2003 he facilitated the nuclear industry’s efforts in joining Cogent. He joined Cogent himself in 2004.

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Christian Kirchsteiger - Conference Speaker   Christian Kirchsteiger

HEAD OF HORIZONTAL & ECONOMIC ASPECTS OF NUCLEAR ENERGY
DIRECTORATE TREN-H-2
EUROPEAN COMMISSION
     
Dr. Christian Kirchsteiger holds a PhD in Physics from the Technical University of Vienna and was, before joining the Commission, working in the last 18 years in Germany, Japan and South Africa in the areas of nuclear safety, risk assessment and energy systems modelling. From 1996-2002 he was working at the European Commission's Directorate-General Joint Research Centre (DG JRC) in Ispra/Italy, dealing with chemical and nuclear risk assessment projects in support of Commission policy services. From 2002-2006, he was head of sector on comparative risk and availability assessment of nuclear and non-nuclear energy systems at the DG JRC's Institute for Energy in Petten/Netherlands. In March 2007, he joined the European Commission’s Directorate-General on Transport and Energy (DG TREN) in the area of horizontal aspects of nuclear energy.

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John Lehew - Conference Speaker   John Lehew

HEAD OF DECOMMISSIONING
CH2M HILL
DOUNREAY
     
John Lehew has over 22 years of experience in nuclear facilities operations, management, decommissioning and environmental remediation. Currently he is working for CH2MHILL in partnership with UKAEA as the Site Project Manager for Decommissioning the Dounreay site in Northern Scotland. This is a £2.9B decommissioning project.

Previously, John was President and Site Manager with CH2MHILL for the Miamisburg Closure Project, responsible for the $314 million accelerated site closure project at the Mound Nuclear facility in Miamisburg, Ohio, USA. Prior to that, he worked as as the Lead Project Manager for the decommissioning of B707 and B776/777 at the Rocky Flats Nuclear Plant in Colorado, USA.

John has advanced Degrees in Marine Engineering, Nuclear Engineering and Environmental Engineering.

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Claes Lindberg - Conference Speaker   Claes Lindberg

PRESIDENT
SKB INTERNATIONAL CONSULTANTS
     
Claes Lindberg has a background in radioactive waste management in the Swedish nuclear industry since 1973. With a master of science degree in chemical engineering he held management positions at Sydkraft (Barsebeck Nuclear Power Plant) until 1986 when he moved to a position in Studsvik AB as vice president for nuclear power plant services. Mr. Lindberg joined SKB International Consultants in 1997 and became its president in 2003.

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Jean Llewellyn - Conference Speaker   Jean Llewellyn

PROJECT DIRECTOR
NATIONAL SKILLS ACADEMY
     
Jean Llewellyn is the Project Director of the National Skills Academy for Nuclear. She has spent the last four years working with employers and partners in the Nuclear Sector to identify the key skills and training challenges and issues facing the sector and developing the proposal to establish a National Skills Academy for Nuclear (NSAN) to address these challenges. She Chaired the Nuclear Skills Advisory Group for three years, this work culminated in the government approval of the Expression of Interest to establish the NSAN.

Prior to this Jean was the Head of Skills Policy at the Northwest Development Agency and in this role led on the Northwest approach to addressing sector skills challenges and implementing national skills policy in the region.

She has had an extensive career in the skills and education arena spending 12 years in Higher and Further Education and in establishing various innovative skills development initiatives.

She graduated in Hospitality Management and has managed hotels in Scotland, England and Italy as well as spending 5 years as an AA Hotel Inspector. Jean is totally committed to the skills agenda and has been on the Boards of a variety of organisations including: The Nuclear Academy, The Hotel and Catering International Management Association, LSC Manchester Council, SPRITO and St George’s Primary School Board of Governors.

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Paul Longsworth - Conference Speaker   Paul Longsworth

EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR
FLUOR
     
Paul is Vice President for European Business Development in Fluor’s London office. He is responsible for sales and business development in the United Kingdom and continental Europe. He has over twenty years of experience in nuclear energy, environmental cleanup, and nuclear nonproliferation.

Prior to joining Fluor, Paul served as Deputy Administrator of the U.S. National Nuclear Security Administration, where he was responsible for the United States’ global nonproliferation and threat reduction program – including:
  • Construction of a $4.0 billion mixed oxide fuel fabrication plant in the U.S. and a sister plant in the Russian Federation;
  • A $2.0 billion effort to shut down the 3 remaining plutonium-producing nuclear reactors in Russia;
  • A global program to convert the world’s highly enriched uranium-fueled reactors to low enriched uranium cores; and
  • Installation of radiation detection equipment at more than 100 international border crossings and seaports.
Paul has also served on the Professional Staff of the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Senate Environment Committee, the DOE Office of Environmental Management, and the Advanced Energy and Environmental Systems Division of BDM International Corporation.

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Steven R. Morgan - Conference Speaker   Steven R. Morgan

DIRECTOR COMMERCIAL & CONTRACT MANAGEMENT
SELLAFIELD
     
Steve has more than 30 years experience in or around the nuclear market and is a recognised commercial executive in the U.S. defence and energy market. He is an expert in negotiation and contract formation, particularly incentivised contracts and is well experienced in socio-economic initiatives. He negotiated the first DoE performance based contract and Performance Based Incentives (PBI’s) and worked as Deputy Director of the Department of Energy Acquisition and Finance Assistance Directorate responsible for, among other things, procurement, policy, competition and incentives.

He is a retired Rear Admiral, USRN, where he led major organisational and cultural changes and privatisation initiatives as Executive Director, Defence Logistics Agency and Head of Naval Reserves Logistics Program. Other naval assignments of duty included: Commander, Office of the Competition Advocate General of the Navy, Deputy Commander of the Naval Inventory Control Point where the first U.S. Government e-auctions were conducted, Contracting Officer for nuclear submarines and clean-up operations and Head of Contingency Logistics Forces for the Defence Logistics Agency and Defence Contract Management Command. The U.S Defence Department has used him as a contracts dispute arbitrator and mediator. Two of the many decorations bestowed on him during his naval career are the Legion of Merit and the Defence Superior Service medal.

Steve has also worked as: Chief Financial Officer, Swiftships, Executive Vice President of United Nuclear Corporation (UNC) submarine reactor core manufacturing plant and Vice President of UNC’s Management and Operations Company at Hanford, where he led the transition from production to clean-up. Based on the above experience he went on to establish a profitable non-nuclear environmental restoration and reclamation company for UNC applying nuclear weapons technology for peaceful purposes. He also has substantial experience in business start-ups, mergers and acquisitions gained during his time with UNC and later as owner of Sparhawke Enterprises a U.S. based company which set-up and harvested spin off and start-up technology–based companies. Immediately before joining BNFL Inc. he was Head of Subcontract Management for the Westinghouse/Fluor Hanford Co. responsible for setting-up, commercially, the first Management and Integration (M&I) contract for the DoE market.

Steve joined BNFL America in 1999 as Head of Contracts and Procurement, where he was involved in multi-billion dollar nuclear projects for the U.S. Department of Energy and the

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John Palmer - Conference Speaker   John Palmer

SENIOR MANAGER
MOTT MACDONALD LTD
     
John Palmer is senior manager in Mott MacDonald Ltd. He is a waste management expert with a proven ability to lead world-class teams. John has over 15 years’ experience of successfully managing multi-million pound programmes requiring extensive interaction with regulators and other stakeholders on nuclear waste matters. John is a Chartered Chemist and a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

John was formerly a Head of Packaging and Transport Department at Nirex. He was responsible for leading multi-million pound projects, forging partnerships with multiple stakeholders including government departments (DTi and DEFRA), industry (BNG, UKAEA, BE and MoD), the regulators (EA, SEPA,HSE NII and OCNS) and NGOs (FoE and Greenpeace), to delivery national standards and reference materials. He also Programme managed a broad spectrum of projects including delivery of transport containers, waste package designs, national standards, the UK Radioactive Waste Inventory and systems for long-term records management.

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Jussi Palmu - Conference Speaker   Jussi Palmu

SENIOR MANAGER, PLANNING
POSIVA OY
     
Jussi Palmu is Senior Manager for Planning in Posiva. He has over 20 years experience in nuclear waste management including R&D and implementation of LLW/ILW treatment, conditioning and disposal and since 1996 spent fuel disposal. His present tasks are mainly in long term planning, financing and economics of spent fuel disposal. He has a M.Sc. degree in applied geophysics and economic geology at Helsinki University of Technology.

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Simon Parsons - Conference Speaker   Simon Parsons

SITE DIRECTOR
TRAWSFYNYDD DECOMMISSIONING SITE
     
Simon’s career began in 1988, as a Technician Engineer Trainee with the Central Electricity Generating Board. On successful completion of his training he was appointed as Project Leader for Nuclear Electric plc in 1991, where he was accountable for the management of multi-million pound schemes concerned - in the main - with decreasing UK waste liabilities on Nuclear Electric sites.

In 1995, he joined Magnox Electric Ltd as a Project Leader responsible for managing and delivering strategic fuel route and engineering projects at Sizewell and Bradwell nuclear power stations. Moving to Berkeley Power Station in 2000 as Site Project Manager, Simon was responsible for safely delivering the complete site’s project portfolio to the scope, schedule and cost.

In 2002, Simon joined the Trawsfynydd Project Team as the Engineering and Project Manager responsible to the Site Manager. He has built a strong project team around him and has been heavily influential in driving out a culture of accountability, innovation, project focus and adding value across the site. Simon is a Chartered Engineer with 14 years of programme, contract and project management experience. Being appointed the Site Director in August 2005 Simon has continued to build the framework for decommissioning the Site effectively and efficiently. Regarded as a motivational leader and aggressive project manager he envisions, then focuses on delivery. To achieve targets he gives the workforce the vision, training and inspiration to make changes for themselves. Simon’s leadership strengths are demonstrated through 18 years of technical, management and project management experience at nuclear sites for infrastructure, transition, and decommissioning projects. He is recognised as a successful recruiter, motivator and developer of people, especially through major organisational change, and has built strong and honest relationships both with the customer and regulators.

Simon actively promotes highly visible leadership on safety initiatives at the site and actively involves himself in safety campaigns and other initiatives to prevent incidents on site. He also chairs Safety forums with staff, agency and supply chain personnel.

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Julia Pyke - Conference Speaker   Julia Pyke

PARTNER
HERBERT SMITH LLP
     
Julia Pyke is a partner in the Energy and Infrastructure group at Herbert Smith. She advised the DTI on the formation of NDA and in particular on the contracts put in place between NDA and BNG, WEC and UKAEA and the site licence companies. Julia spent a year on secondment to NDA and is currently advising NDA on issues including the Sellafield and LLWR competitions, the restructuring of Magnox and the restructuring of the UKAEA. Julia is also advising SNN on the development of Units 3&4 at Cernavoda and advising EDF on their plans for nuclear new build in the UK. In the Legal 500 2006 edition, Julia is "highly praised for her nuclear expertise".

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Mark Richards - Conference Speaker   Mark Richards

PARTNER
PINSENT MASONS
     
Mark Richards undertakes major energy infrastructure projects work, with particular specialism in the nuclear sector. He is rated by the Chambers & Partners Guide to the Legal Profession 2006 as a "leading individual" in the field of energy and natural resources. Mark is the Chairman of the Nuclear Industry Association Commercial and Legal Issues Working Group and member of the UK Trade and Investment Nuclear Exports Group, a member of the International Nuclear Law Association and a member of the International Journal of Nuclear Law Editorial and Scientific Committee. He chaired the 2006 International Project Finance Association Conference on Project Finance for New Build Nuclear Power Generation in the UK. He has worked on projects including Chernobyl SIP, Ignalina Unit 1, Kozloduy Units 1 & 2, Bohunice Unit 1 decommissioning and for clients bidding for PL1 site management contracts from the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority in the UK.

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Peter Ritson - Conference Speaker   Peter Ritson

HEAD OF CONTRACTS
UKAEA
     
Peter Ritson is a highly experienced contracts manager, who has worked in the nuclear industry for over 20 years. During that time he has amassed a wealth of knowledge relating to the placement and management of complex contracts. He has also become expert in the development and implementation of contracts policies and procedures and the development of high level contracts' strategies. He has managed contracts and teams at most of UKAEA's sites including Culham, Winfrith and Windscale as well as Harwell.

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Dr. Tim Stone - Conference Speaker   Dr. Tim Stone

SENIOR ADVISOR TO GOVERNMENT ON FINANCING NUCLEAR NEW BUILD DECOMMISSIONING & WASTE MANAGEMENT
     
Dr Timothy Stone is the chairman of KPMG's Global Infrastructure and Projects Group. The Group specialises in advising asset owners, government bodies, contractors and infrastructure funds on the financing of major projects worldwide across a wide range of sectors. Dr Stone has been appointed in an individual capacity to advise the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry and the Chief Secretary of the Treasury on the development of arrangements for the costs associated with any new nuclear build decommissioning and long term waste management.

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Leo Thompson - Conference Speaker   Leo Thompson

TECHNOLOGY DIRECTOR
AMEC
     
Leo Thompson is the director of technology for AMEC’s GeoMelt vitrification division.

Mr. Thompson started his career at the US Department of Energy’s Hanford site for Battelle, Pacific Northwest National Laboratory working on the development of hazardous and radioactive waste treatment technologies.

He has managed waste treatment and site remediation projects for government and commercial clients in the US, Japan, Taiwan, Australia and Europe over the past 20 years.

Mr. Thompson holds several patents relating to waste vitrification processes and has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry.

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Ewoud Verhoef - Conference Speaker   Ewoud Verhoef

PROJECT MANAGER
COVRA
     
On November 14 (1973) Ewoud Vincent Verhoef was born in Newton near Boston (Massachusetts, USA). After a short stay in New England he crossed the Atlantic to settle in the Netherlands. He graduated as a chemical engineer from Delft University of Technology (1998). Following graduation he joined the Delft Interfaculty Research Center (DIOC) Design and Management of Infrastructure as a PhD fellow. He received a Doctor’s degree in industrial ecology (metal recycling) in 2004. He is currently head of research at COVRA and co-ordinates the EC project on shared international repositories, SAPIERR-2.

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David W. Wallace - Conference Speaker   David W. Wallace

VICE PRESIDENT
CDM
     
David W. Wallace is a CDM Vice President, and serves as the Sector Manager responsible for the execution of programs and projects for the U. S. Department of Energy. He has served in a wide range of positions in the overall management and development of project execution for the past ten years. Services include environmental restoration, D&D, uranium recovery, and waste management activates. He routinely serves on subcommittees within the Energy Facilities Contractor’s Group and has chaired various panels associated with acquisition strategies and project management to improve delivery of services to the government and industry.

He brings 20 years of experience in contracts, acquisitions, procurement & project management. He has a Bachelors degree in Finance/Business Administration from Kent State University. He has been a key member in pursuits for business development that have included developing teaming strategies with large and small business partners. Lead the effort to form a formal Small Business Administration Mentor-Protégé relationship to pursue small business set asides. And is a regular presenter on contracts vehicles and procedures at DOE related conferences.

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Pete Wylie - Conference Speaker   Pete Wylie

HEAD OF STRATEGY DEVELOPMENT
BRITISH NUCLEAR GROUP SELLAFIELD LTD
     
Pete joined BNFL in 1978 as a Research Associate, BNF L, Sellafield. In 1981 he left BNFL to work outside the nuclear industry, first for an engineering consulancy and then for an engineering design company. In 1987 he rejoined BNFL as Commisioning Manager for the THORP Control Systems, followed by Operation Support Manager for THORP Chemical Plants, taking the plant into active operation. After a short period at Risley in the IT Strategy Unit in 1997 he was appointed as Group Technology Manager in R&T and Technical Manger for THORP and in 2001 he transferred to take up the role of Technical Manager for High Level Waste Plants, in order to develop and implement the recovery plan for Vitrification and HALES. In 2003 he moved to Site Remediation to develop the strategy to accelerate cleanup of the Sellafield Site. Pete is currently Head of Strategy Development at Sellafield.

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Post Conference Workshop 23rd May 2007 Making IP Rights Commercially Innovative . . More

Who will you meet
Job Titles of the Attendees Include: -
divider Nuclear Decommissioning Heads of Strategy divider Heads of Business Development divider Commercial and Contracts Directors divider Regulators divider Government, including policy-makers and NDA divider Site Managers divider Chief Operating Officers divider Senior Planning Managers divider Programme Directors divider Directors of Engineering divider Senior Waste Commercial Engineers divider Chief Technical Directors divider Quality Assurance Directors divider Heads of Communications divider Heads of Skills Development divider Trade Unions divider Heads of Universities divider Community-based organisations

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