Speaker Biographies A-E

Gilbert Bankobeza
Gilbert M. Bankobeza obtained his Doctor of Laws (LL.D) degree in international environmental law from the University of Geneva, Switzerland in 2004. His forthcoming book on the 'International Legal Regime of the Montreal Protocol,' analyzes, among other topics, the compliance regime of the Montreal Protocol and relevant aspects of procedures and mechanisms for compliance developed under other multilateral environmental agreements. He is author of several articles on international environmental law that have recently been published in journals and books, including one on "The Ozone Protection Non-Compliance Mechanism: A Model for Implementation of Climate Change Convention and the Kyoto Protocol" published by the Indian Society of International Law. He is senior legal adviser on the implementation and compliance with the Vienna Convention for the Protection of the Ozone Layer and the Montreal Protocol on Substances that deplete the Ozone Layer under UNEP.

Antonio Benjamin
Professor Antonio Herman Benjamin is Brazilian and lives in São Paulo. He teaches Environmental Law and Products Liability in both Brazil and the United States. His main environmental interests include biodiversity law, wildlife and flora legal regimes, environmental enforcement and capacity building.

He is the founder and co-editor in chief of the Brazilian Environmental Law Journal, the only regular environmental law review in Latin America. Professor Benjamin was the general-rapporteur of the committee which drafted the Brazilian 1998 Crimes against the Environment Act. He has drafted and co-drafted several other Brazilian laws, including the new Forest Code, the Anti-Corruption Act, the Consumer Protection Code and the Competition Act, and a number of environmental regulations. He is also the main drafter of the 2002 Federal Eco-Zoning Decree.

He is the founder and a director of "Law for a Green Planet Institute", a leading Brazilian environmental law organization. Professor Benjamin is a member of the IUCN Environmental Law Commission and the UN Legal Experts Committee on Crimes against the Environment. He is a Fulbright scholar and former president of the Brazilian Association of Fulbrighters.

In August 2003, President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva reappointed Professor Benjamin to a two-year term at the National Environmental Council (CONAMA).

Carl Bruch
Carl Bruch is a Legal Officer with UNEP's Division of Environmental Policy Implementation (DEPI). At DEPI, he has focused on promoting compliance with and enforcement of multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs). He has been facilitating the development of a UNEP Manual on Compliance with and Enforcement of MEAs, which expands upon similar Guidelines adopted by the UNEP Governing Council in 2002. He has helped to convene a series of regional capacity-building workshops on compliance and enforcement around the world. He has also worked with colleagues to develop pilot projects promoting innovative approaches to improving compliance and enforcement through: (1) strengthening capacity to negotiate MEAs; (2) developing more efficient and effective modalities for transposing MEA commitments into national laws, particularly through clustering of related agreements; and (3) building capacity of customs officers, prosecutors, judges, NGOs, and other stakeholders to implement and enforce MEAs.

Paula Caldwell St-Onge
Paula Caldwell St-Onge is the Deputy Director of the Environmental Assessment Branch of Environment Canada.

John C. Cruden
John C. Cruden is the Deputy Assistant Attorney General, Environment and Natural Resources Division, Department of Justice. In that capacity, he is responsible for supervising a wide variety of environmental litigation, including civil enforcement actions in federal court for the key environmental statutes, including Clean Water Act, Clean Air Act, RCRA, Safe Drinking Water Act, and CERCLA/Superfund. In addition, he supervises wetland enforcement, challenges to EPA rule making, and environmental actions filed against the United States. Prior to becoming a career Deputy, John was Chief, Environmental Enforcement Section (EES). John has spent most of his legal life either litigating, teaching litigation-related subjects, or supervising litigators. His two most recent positions before becoming Chief, EES, were at the Department of Justice and Department of the Army. John was Special Counsel to the Assistant Attorney General, Civil Division, from 1987 to 1988. From 1988 to 1991 he was the Chief Legislative Counsel for the Army. He has also been an agency General Counsel and an army lawyer where he received a number of awards and decorations.

Neil Davies
Neil Davies is a Policy Manager within the Environment Agency (England and Wales) and has particular responsibility for the Agency's regulation of the energy and metals sectors. He also has responsibility for implementing aspects of the climate change programme, including the EU Emissions Trading Scheme. He has worked in the UK's Department of Trade and Industry to work alongside the team producing the UK Government's recent Energy White Paper. Neil also has extensive operational experience within the Environment Agency having managed a team of Inspectors responsible for the regulation of complex industrial processes. Prior to the Environment Agency, he worked for British Coal dealing primarily with the development of advanced power generation technologies. He has a degree in Applied Chemistry and a PhD in Chemical Engineering.

Maria Eugenia Di Paola
Maria Eugenia Di Paola is a member of the Environmental Law Commission of IUCN. She is also the Director of the Research and Training Area of the Environment and Natural Resources Foundation (Fundación Ambiente y Recursos Naturales - FARN). She is coordinating the ECE indicators pilot for Argentina and is a member of the ECE indicators working group of INECE.

René Drolet
René Drolet has been involved in the development of a compliance assurance program within Environment Canada for more than two years. He is currently the Director of the Compliance Assurance Branch and works in collaboration with the International Network on Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE) and the OECD on the development of performance indicators for environmental compliance and enforcement. He started his career as a research assistant in oceanography in 1990. He worked as a consultant in environmental science from 1992 to 1994. Then, he entered the Canadian federal government and worked for 7 years for the Department of Fisheries and Oceans in the Fish Habitat Management Program. He has been working at Environment Canada since 2001.

Speaker Biographies F-K

Vladimir de Pasos Freitas
Born in São Paulo, Brazil. Graduated in Law, in 1968. He was Prosecutor in the states of Paraná and São Paulo from 1970 to 1980, when was approved in an public exam for Federal Judge. Promoted to the Federal Court of Appeal of the 4th Region in 1991, where for three times was examiner in the public exams for judges. At present is the President of the Court. Obtained his Master and Doctoral degrees from Universidade Federal do Paraná. Author and coordinator of 14 books, among which Crimes contra a natureza (Crimes against nature) that is in its 7th edition; has articles on environmental law published in Brazil and abroad. Was a member of the committee appointed by the Ministry of Justice to elaborate the bill for the Law of Environmental Crimes. Has participated and coordinated congresses and seminars, and made lectures on Environmental Law in Brazil, Portugal, Mexico, Nicaragua, France, USA, South Africa, Kenya, Israel, Uruguay, Argentina, Canada, Holland, Italy and Thailand. Post-degree Professor of Environmental Law at Pontificia Universidade Católica do Paraná. Is PNUMA's (United Nations Environmental Programme) representative for capacity building courses for judges and prosecutors in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Sibusiso Gamede
Sibusiso Gamede is an environmental lawyer with the law firm Smit, Jones, and Pratt based in South Africa. Formerly, he was Chief Director of Environmental Quality and Protection in the Department of Environmental Affairs and Tourism South Africa. He is head of the South African Delegation Basel Convention, UNFCCC, Rotterdam and Stockholm Conventions. He is also a member of the Africa Legal Group - Basel Convention, Geneva. He is consulting for the Department of Minerals and Energy (RSA) on the Kyoto Flexible Mechanisms.

Dave Gorman
Better Regulation Manager, Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA). After spending the initial period of his career working for Scottish local government on waste management recycling and environmental strategy issues, Dave joined SEPA in April 2000. SEPA is Scotland's national environmental regulator, responsible fo the control of emissions to and prevention of pollution of air, land and water, as well as waste management and radioactive substances. Dave has previously managed emergency planning, aspects of the Scottish National Waste Strategy and customer care issues. His current role builds upon a project to modernise and refresh SEPA's overall approach to regulation, as well as having responsibility for the coordination of the implementation of new duties. Dave also seeks to input to best practice networks and learn from other regulators to inform SEPA's approach. Dave has a degree in engineering and a masters in environmental management, and is a Chartered Environmentalist and member of the Chartered Institutes of Waste Management, Environmental Management and Assessment, and Management.

John Harman
John Harman is Chairman of the Environment Agency for England and Wales. He was appointed in 2000, having served as a member of the Agency's Board since 1995. By profession a teacher of mathematics, he was Leader of Kirklees Metropolitan Council for 13 years, and also led the Yorkshire and Humberside Regional Assembly. Co-founder in 1992 of Local Agenda 21 UK, he was knighted in 1997 for services to Local Government and the Environment.

Robert Heiss
Mr. Heiss is the Director, International Compliance Assurance Division, in the US Environmental Protection Agency's Office of Enforcement and Compliance Assurance. His office provides technical assistance, including training and consultation, to many countries and regional organizations concerning the development of environmental compliance and enforcement programs. In 2004, he was a facilitator on a team which presented the Principles of Environmental Enforcement course in Morocco. In addition, Mr. Heiss manages the notification process for transboundary movements of hazardous waste to and from the United States. At present his office is participating in a non-binding pilot project with Environment Canada to develop a notification process for controlling transboundary movements of municipal solid waste with Canada, for use if legal authorities are established for this purpose. In 2003 he co-chaired a workshop with Environment Canada for industry regarding the transboundary movement of hazardous waste between the countries and border security issues. See http://www.epa.gov/compliance/monitoring/programs/rcra/importexport.html.

Markku Hietamäki
Markku Hietamäki is a environmental counsellor who works in Finnish Ministry of the Environment. His duty is organize the compliance monitoring of environmental permits in Finland. Lately he has been involved in the project to develop the compliance monitoring system which very strong makes used of Information Technology in operators' reporting to authorities, in the management of reported information by authorities and how the compliance monitoring of permits as a hole is organized by the authorities. He is working in the environmental co-operation projects with Finnish neighbouring area, too.

Bakary Kante
Bakary Kante is the Director of the Division of Policy Development and Law at the United Nations Environment Programme. Born in Dakar, Senegal, Bakary Kante studied International Public Law at the University of Dakar, and received his Masters Degree and subsequently a Ph.D. in Environmental Sciences He served as the Head of Law and Litigation in the Ministry of Housing and Environment. For 15 years he was Director of the Environment Directorate in Senegal. He represented Senegal in many regional and international environmental negotiations, such as Chairman of the SBI of UNFCCC, the subsidiary body for policy implementation of the United Nations Forum on Climate Change, before joining UNEP, initially as Special Policy Advisor to the Executive Director, later as Director for the Division of Policy Development and Law.

Joe Kruger
Joe Kruger is a Visiting Scholar at Resources for the Future (RFF), where his research focuses on the design, implementation, and evaluation of emissions trading programs. He is a lead author for the forthcoming Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Fourth Assessment Report (Working Group III). He also represents RFF on the Resource Panel for the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative, a carbon dioxide cap and trade program developed by nine states in the Northeastern and Mid-Atlantic U.S. Kruger is on leave from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, where he managed a group within EPA's Clean Air Markets Division that was responsible for technical and policy analysis of greenhouse gas trading and inventory issues. He has also been Chief of the EPA Acid Rain Division's Energy, Evaluation and International Branch, where he was responsible for evaluating the economic and environmental impacts of the SO2 Trading Program. Kruger holds a Master's degree in Public Policy from the University of California, Berkeley, and an A.B. in Government and Economics from Cornell University.

Speaker Biographies L-Q

Yvan Lafleur
Yvan Lafleur is the Director of Wildlife Enforcement and Intelligence for the Canadian Wildlife Service. He has occupied the position since 1989 and prior to that, had been a wildlife officer since 1966. His background as a biologist along with a long family involvement in natural resources harvesting activities has given him a very pragmatic approach to wildlife enforcement issues. He strongly believes in cooperation amongst agencies and has been part of the creation of the Canadian Federal/ Provincial Wildlife Enforcement Chiefs Association. The group is composed of 5 federal agencies and the thirteen Canadian provinces and territories. He has represented Canada at many international conferences and seminars all over the world including five CITES conferences . He has participated in special missions and officer training in North America, Europe, Asia and Africa. He has been very active in promoting and supporting the development and use of adapted scientific tools for enforcement officers, better known as the Identification Guides of species protected under CITES. He has been the first Chairman of the North American Wildlife Enforcement Group (NAWEG) which coordinates some wildlife enforcement activities in Canada, Mexico and United States of America. He is presently leading the development of GWEN (Global Wildlife Enforcement Network) in cooperation with Interpol and INECE.

Andrew Lauterback
Andrew Lauterback is a Senior Criminal Enforcement Counsel with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and manages the international activities for its Office of Criminal Enforcement, Forensics and Training. Mr. Lauterback is also Chairman of Interpol's Environmental Crimes Committee and its Pollution Crimes Working Group. He is a member of the U.S. Department of Justice Environmental Crimes Policy Group and was a member of the U.S. Sentencing Commission's Environmental Crimes Advisory Group. Mr. Lauterback has prosecuted many criminal cases arising under all the major federal U.S. environmental statutes.

Michael LeRoy-Dyson
Michael LeRoy-Dyson is the leader of Enforcement and Compliance in the Auckland Regional Government in New Zealand. His background is in pollution control and he has 17 years experience in developing and implementing incident response, education and compliance monitoring programs across a range of resource management areas.

Myriam Linster
Myriam Linster is Administrator of the OECD Environment Directorate. Her area of work is the development, measurement, and publication of indicators for use in OECD's environmental performance reviews, with a focus on environment-economy interactions.

Tom Maslany
Tom Maslany retired from the US Environmental Protection Agency after 32 years with the agency. During his career he worked in the Region 3 Office which covered the states of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia. He held positions of Director of Air and Toxics and Director of Water Protection. His last assignment was at the US EPA headquarters office as Director of International Enforcement and Compliance.

Tom's compliance and enforcement experience spans 35 years. He has been involved in negotiating agreement relating to environmental non-complying situations since 1973. This has included most steel mills across the US, 20 electric power plants, petrochemical plants, incinerators, auto manufacturing, and many other industries. He has testified as an expert witness in major environmental cases, testified before commissions and elected officials, lead major investigation teams, written regulations, developed enforcement strategies and policies, and managed enforcement programs.

Tom co-authored and is a lead facilitator of the INECE course entitled "Principles of Environmental Compliance and Enforcement" and other environmental courses. He has provided environmental management support to a dozen countries. Currently, he is teaching courses to US state agencies and working with the USAID on support to various countries.

Ken Markowitz
Ken, an attorney, acts as the de facto deputy director of the Secretariat for the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement (INECE). His responsibilities include managing the INECE Compliance and Enforcement Indicators project, in addition to being intimately involved in the strategic planning, regional network development, Web site administration, and capacity building efforts of INECE.

He has significant environmental compliance and enforcement experience - previously serving as a senior counsel to the United States Environmental Protection Agency, Region III, where he received several national honors for the implementation of innovative approaches to rapid, legally defensible enforcement responses to emergencies such as petroleum and hazardous waste spills. He also practiced law in private firms, counseling municipal and corporate clients in over 30 states on water quality and other environmental issues.

Ken is the President and founder of Earthpace LLC, a consulting firm dedicated to enabling organizations to achieve environmental policy objectives and legal requirements through communications, strategic planning, partnership building, and innovation.

Ladislav Miko
Dr. Ladislav Miko is Deputy Minister of the Czech Republic's Ministry of the Environment. He has been designated as Director of European Commission Directorate DG.ENV.B: Protecting the Natural Environment. Dr. Miko is a long-standing member of the INECE Executive Planning Committee.

Elizabeth Maruma Mrema
Elizabeth Maruma Mrema is a Senior Legal Officer in the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) - Division of Environmental Policy Implementation (DEPI); Acting Chief of the DEPI - Implementation of Environmental Law Branch and Task Manager of the Partnership Programme on Development of Environmental Laws and Institutions in Africa (PADELIA). She coordinated the development of the UNEP Guidelines on Compliance and Enforcement of MEAs since 1999 to 2002 when they were adopted and currently coordinates its implementation. She is also coordinating the development and testing, through a series of regional workshops, the Manual on Compliance and Enforcement of MEAs as well as pilot projects and activities at national and regional level for the implementation of both the Guidelines and the Manual. She is also the UNEP focal point for the implementation of Lusaka Agreement on Cooperative Enforcement Operations Directed at Illegal Trade in Wild Fauna and Flora.

Marcia Mulkey
Marcia E. Mulkey is Visiting Professor of Law at Temple University's James E. Beasley School of Law, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she researches and teaches in the fields of environmental, governmental and administrative law. She actively contributes to Temple's extensive international programs, especially its programs in and with China. Professor Mulkey came to Temple from the United States Environmental Protection Agency, where she is a member of the Senior Executive Service and where she held major leadership positions, most recently (1998-2003) leading the implementation of the landmark Food Quality Protection Act as Director of the Office of Pesticide Programs. EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs is responsible for all registration and regulatory activities involving pesticides sold in the United States.

Ms. Mulkey served from 1988 until 1998 as Regional Counsel of the mid-Atlantic regional office of EPA in Philadelphia, leading a 110-person law office with responsibility for all the environmental laws EPA administers in the five state (and D. C.) region. The primary work of EPA's regional offices involves the implementation and enforcement of the environmental laws. .

Ms. Mulkey's international service has included a recent four-month Visiting Expert service with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization, where she has prepared a major new Guideline on Compliance and Enforcement of Pesticide Regulatory Programs to support implementation of the International Code of Conduct on the Distribution and Use of Pesticides.

Ms. Mulkey's prior international activities also include a three-month detail to the Dutch Environment Ministry and Chairship (with Canadian and Mexican counterparts) of the NAFTA Technical Working Group on Pesticides. Ms Mulkey has been very active in the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement and represented INECE at the International Symposium on Environmental Law for Judges in May of 2003, where she presented a paper entitled Developing National Enforcement Programs for Pesticide Regulatory Requirements and Pesticide-related International Agreements.

Professor Mulkey is a cum laude graduate of Harvard Law School and a member of the District of Columbia Bar. She was twice recognized with Presidential Rank awards as a senior EPA executive.

Ike Ndlovu
Ike Ndlovu is head of the Compliance Monitoring Directorate under the Regulatory Services Chief Directorate in the Department of the Environmental Affairs and Tourism of South Africa. He has worked in Pollution and Waste Management for eight years, particularly on promoting cleaner production/pollution prevention.

Alberto Ninio
Alberto Ninio is currently Senior Counsel, Africa Division, Legal Department, The World Bank where he also serves as the Division's Focal Point for Environmental Law. From 2000-2003, Mr. Ninio served as Assistant Executive Secretary of the World Bank Inspection Panel. Prior to joining the Panel in 2000, Mr. Ninio occupied the post of Senior Environmental Counsel at the Bank's Legal Department. Before joining the Bank in 1993, Mr. Ninio worked for 3 years as an Attorney with the Environmental Law Institute, a nonprofit organization headquartered in Washington, DC. Prior to coming to the United States, Mr. Ninio was in private legal practice in his native Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. Mr. Ninio has law degrees (LLB and LLM, respectively) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil and the American University, Washington College of Law in Washington, DC where he teaches environmental law as an Adjunct Professor. He is also a member of several professional associations including the Brazilian Bar Association and the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law.

Katia Opalka
Katia Opalka is a member of the Quebec bar specializing in environmental law. She currently works as a legal officer in the Submissions on Enforcement Matters Unit of the Commission for Environmental Cooperation (CEC) of North America. At the CEC, Ms. Opalka processes citizen submissions alleging that either Canada, Mexico or the United States is failing to effectively enforce its environmental laws. She reviews the merits of individual submissions and gathers information on alleged failures to effectively enforce environmental law. Since 2001, she has organized fact finding investigations regarding law enforcement in the following contexts: acid mine drainage from the Britannia Mine in British Columbia, Canada; authorization of a logging road project in Alberta, Canada; citizen complaints regarding illegal logging in Chihuahua, Mexico; impacts of clearcut logging on migratory birds in Ontario, Canada; and water pollution from a former city dump in Montreal, Canada. She also worked on the second edition of the CEC's Report on Public Access to Government-held Environmental Information in North America.

Tony Oposa
Tony Oposa is known for his work in the establishing the legal standing of children and of future generations before thePhilippine Supreme Court in a suit against the Government for the misappropriation of the country's tropical rainforests. As an ordinary citizen, he has organized and led enforcement raids against big-time violators of forestry laws. For his past work in the field of forest law enforcement, he was awarded the UNEP Global 500 Roll of Honor. Mr Oposa has recently focused his efforts in the enforcement of laws for the protection of the marine waters of the Philippines.

Lee Paddock
Lee Paddock is the Director of Environmental Legal Studies and an Adjunct Professor of Law at Pace University School of Law. Pace Law School is the third ranked environmental law program in the United States. Lee also serves as Chair of the Specialist Group on Enforcement and Compliance for the International Union for the Conservation of Nature's Commission on Environmental Law. He is a Vice-Chair of the American Bar Association Section for Environment, Energy and Resources Committee on Innovations, Management Systems and Trading.

Prior to coming to pace, Lee also serves as a Senior Consultant to the National Academy of Public Administration working on environmental management issues. He held a Visiting Scholar position at the Environmental law Institute focusing on clean air act, state-federal relationship and enforcement issues. Lee also worked with U.S. EPA on innovations issues including its Performance Track program.

From 1978 until 1999 Lee was an Assistant Attorney General with the Minnesota Attorney General's Office where he served as Director of Environmental Policy for 13 years, as manager of the Office's Agriculture and Natural Resources Division and a member of its Executive Committee. He has served on numerous national panels including the Aspen Institute's Series on Environment in the 21st Century and the American National Standard Institute's ISO 14000 Environmental Management Systems Council. He helped design the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's environmental auditing policy and participated for several years in the work of the International Network for Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, co-founded by EPA and the Dutch Ministry of the Environment.

Lee served as a law clerk to Judge Donald Lay of the U.S. Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals. His law degree is from the University of Iowa and his undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan.

Romina Picolotti
Romina Picolotti is co-founder and Director of the Legal Clinic on Human Rights and Environment hosted by CEDHA in Córdoba, Argentina.
Romina Picolotti has dedicated her career to the defense of human rights and environmental protection. She is a graduate of the National University of Córdoba, Argentina, and holds a Masters Degree in International Law from the American University. She has worked with international and multilateral institutions (incuding UNO and OAS) on human right advocacy at the local and international level.

In 1995 she joined an international task force of human rights advocates to assist Cambodia in reestablishing its judicial system following an era of egregious human rights violations. She served this effort as advisor and trainer to the Cambodian Judicial System, mentoring judges and prosecutors on legal theory and practice, training prison staff and police on human rights, facilitating human rights advocacy groups participation in the judicial process, and assisting civil society to access the judicial system. She later joined the International Human Rights Law Group in Washington, DC as Legal Officer for Latin America, where she focused her work on defending and promoting human and environmental rights of indigenous communities, afrocaribbeans populations, and women. Romina designed the Law Group´s Nicaragua Program which offers in situ mechanisms strengthening civil society and improving access to justice.

As Latin America Legal Officer of the Law Group, Ms. Picolotti headed international litigation before the Interamerican Commission and Court on Human Rights, identifying victims of human rights and environmental abuse and bringing their complaints to the Inter-American system. She brings extensive experience to the International Human Rights System, having worked with various actors of the system, including the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights where she reviewed and analyzed petitions for admissibility and legal substance, and with the Washington based Center for Justice and International Law (CEJIL), where she reviewed and prepared cases going before the system, and presently with CEDHA reresenting victims before the System.

Romina works in collaboration with other prominent institutions dedicated to the defense and promotion of human rights and environmental law. She was adjunct proffesor of the Masters Law Program of American University, in Washingtn D.C., where she designed the specific course on human rights and environment at present used by other universities accross the United States. Romina is also member of the Environmental Law Commission in Bonn, Germany. She has been awarded with important prizes recognizing her work on the defense of human righs and environmental causes, such as the Peter Ciccino Award. She has also published extensive material on this arena. Finally, it is worth mentioning the countries where Romina Picolotti has represented international human rights bodies which include: Argentina, Perú, Cuba, Guatemala, Nicaragua, Haití, Cambodia & the United States.

Dr. Dariusz Prasek
Dr. Prasek currently holds a position of a Head of Operational Support at the Environment Department in the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development. He is responsible for co-ordinating environmental due-diligence on various Bank's operations including debt and equity financing of investment projects in areas comprising municipal and environmental infrastructure, various industrial sectors, commerce, multi-project facilities, privatisation, restructuring, and promotion of clean technologies. Before joining the Bank he was an Advisor for the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (Earth Summit). Dr. Prasek holds a Ph.D. in environmental engineering from the Warsaw University of Technology, and from 1987 to 1991 was Assistant Professor at that university's Institute of Environmental Engineering. Dr. Prasek has published numerous articles in the fields of solid waste management, environmental management, environmental aspects of project financing and is a member of many professional organizations.

Speaker Biographies R-U

Henk Ruessink
Dr. Henk Ruessink is a Ph.D. in Physical Chemistry, educated at the Free University of Amsterdam. As a former Department Head, he is now an Advisor for the management of the Environmental Inspectorate in the Netherlands. His specific knowhow is in the field of (management of) industrial safety and environment. Dr. Ruessink is also fullfilling the Chair of Traffic and Environment at the Police Academy of the Netherlands. He and his group are working on R&D to obtain ce improved and innovative knowledge and methods for sustainable compliance and enforcement for the police. One of the key approaches is to bring in knowledge from international approaches and networks.

Iwona Rummel-Bulska
Iwona Rummel-Bulska is the Senior Legal Advisor of the World Meteorological Organization, advising no legal and institutional matters related to the work of the organization, its procedures and rules, including contracts, agreements, Memoranda of Understanding and any other legal commitments to which WMO is to become a party. She is responsible for handling WMO's legal disputes and representing WMO at judicial procedures both at national and international levels.

Michael Stahl
Michael Stahl is the Director of the Office of Compliance at the US EPA. He has held various management positions at the EPA for 13 years. One of his responsibilities as the Director of the Office of Compliance is to develop performance indicators for the EPA's national enforcement and compliance program. Michael is a member of the INECE Expert Working Group on ECEs and he is the principal author of the performance measurement guidance document which was included in your conference information packet.

Speaker Biographies V-Z

Mr. Uhlmann has worked in the Environmental Crimes Section since December 1990. Prior to becoming section chief, Mr. Uhlmann served for seven years as a trial attorney and a senior trial attorney, and for three years as an assistant section chief. During his tenure with the Justice Department, Mr. Uhlmann has prosecuted environmental crimes throughout the United States, and tried Clean Water Act, RCRA, and Clean Air Act cases in Wyoming, South Dakota, Tennessee, Missouri, and Idaho. Mr. Uhlmann's last trial was the successful prosecution of Allan Elias in Idaho, chronicled in the recent book The Cyanide Canary, published by Simon & Schuster. Elias was convicted at trial of knowing endangerment, illegal disposal of hazardous waste, and making false statements to OSHA for his role in a series of actions that left a 20-year old Idaho man severely and permanently brain?damaged. Until recently, the 17?year prison sentence that resulted was the longest sentence ever imposed for environmental crime.

Mr. Uhlmann received a J.D. from Yale Law School in 1988 and a B.A. with high honors from Swarthmore College in 1984. Following law school, Mr. Uhlmann clerked for United States District Court Judge Marvin H. Shoob in Atlanta, Georgia. He is admitted to the bar in the District of Columbia, the State of Georgia, and numerous federal district and appellate courts.