Sprekers
Helen Bone
Helen turned 40 last year. She’s married to Mark and between them they have 3 daughters aged between 11, 15 and 18. She qualified as a nurse in 2004 before becoming an Advanced Clinical Practitioner (ACP) in 2017. Her career has involved both intensive care and respiratory work. When Covid hit she was on the front line, working with critically ill patients. It was after she fell ill with Covid […]
Gordana Materljan LLM
Gordana Materljan, dipl. iur., LL.M., is a seasoned legal professional with a Juris Doctor degree from the Law Faculty of Rijeka, Croatia, and an LL.M. in European Litigation from the University of Luxembourg. Currently, she serves as a Legal Officer at the European Commission, specializing in health and safety at work. Gordana has a wealth […]
Stefan Kempeneers
Stefan Kempeneers studied chemistry and has been working at the intermunicipal organisation Interleuven in Belgium for 14 years. His primary focus has been on climate and energy projects. He first encountered the topic of asbestos through a remote sensing project. To estimate the number of roofs suspected of containing asbestos in the Leuven district, Interleuven […]
Tracey Wood
Tracey Wood is an advocate and co-founder of the Glynnis Gale Foundation, an organisation dedicated to addressing the devastating impact of asbestos mining and use in South Africa. After the heart-wrenching experience of caring for her mother who succumbed to Mesothelioma in 2019, Tracey, alongside her husband Paul, embarked on a fact-finding mission to the […]
Adam Harding, Session Chair
Adam Harding began his career as a science graduate, was employed as an environmental consultant and then subsequently as a surveyor and project manager. He has furthered his education with BOHS and NEBOSH technical qualifications in subject areas including Health and Safety, Asbestos and Legionella Management. Combined with his training qualifications he has provided training […]
Professor Steven Kao
Associate Professor Steven Kao is a Medical Oncology Senior Staff Specialist at the Chris O’Brien Lifehouse and a Honorary Visiting Medical Officer at Royal Prince Alfred Hospital in Sydney, Australia. He is also the clinical research lead at the Asbestos and Dust Diseases Research Institute. He specialises in the management of thoracic cancers including mesothelioma […]
Dragoş Pîslaru
Dragoş Pîslaru is a Member of the European Parliament, a member of the Renew Europe Group and the Chair for the EU Commission on Employment & Social Affairs. The EAF foundation is very proud to announce that he will be presenting the Keynote Speech: on the new Asbestos at Work Directive, of course. Dragos has […]
Inez Postema
Founder and CEO Inez Postema –connector and innovator- has 30+ years of experience developing strategic advice & projects on sustainability to chemical industries and governmental entities. She is since 2018 fully committed to finding a safe and definitive destruction method for asbestos fibres. The Asbeter team succeeded in developing two patented processes since then. The […]