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Sophie Wood is the Program Manager for the popular Contaminated Sites Assessment Remediation and Management (CSARM) short courses at University of Technology Sydney (UTS). Prior to joining UTS, Sophie was a partner with ERM, Sydney for 13 years. She moved to Australia from the UK in 2008, having held senior management and business development positions in several large engineering consultancies. Sophie was a NSW EPA and QLD accredited Site Auditor and is still a Certified Environmental Practitioner (Site Contamination Specialist) under the EIANZ scheme. She has a bachelor’s degree in Natural Sciences, Geology (BA) from University of Cambridge, UK and a PhD (in geochemistry) from the University of Leeds, UK
She has over 30 years’ experience in contaminated land and waste management consulting, specialising in risk assessment for much of this time. Sophie was the lead author for the first draft of the 2013 revision of the 2013 NEPM Schedules B4 (Site-specific Risk Assessment) and B7 (Health-based Investigation Levels). She has worked on many major contaminated site projects including the Barangaroo site gasworks remediation, the remediation of the gasworks beneath the new Sydney Metro station at Central Station, and for Western Sydney Airport. Sophie is passionate about high quality teaching and learning, and loves working with students to help them get the maximum benefit from the CSARM courses

Nick Wood is an expert in the emerging field of climate change as a sovereign risk. At the core of his strategic work is the simple observation that climate change is a new world of "non-stationarity". This presents serious challenges to the Australian economy and consequently to the ability of Governments to borrow money to fund development.
Nick has worked on climate policy for over 25 years across multiple jurisdictions. His work on the financial risk from climate change has been published in the journal Nature Climate Change and cited by the World Bank and the US Economic Council. Nick has attended two international United Nations Conference of Parties on climate change giving specialist talks on carbon pricing mechanisms, he co-authored the report "Climate Change and Good Corporate Governance" for Australian Institute of Company Directors and has provided advice to major banks, the CSIRO and KPMG's Global Assurance Methodology Group.

Craig is a CEnvP-SC with 30 years' experience in dirt, water and waste.

He spent 6 years in the trenches as a Director of ALGA and is a current member of the Certification Board of the CEnvP Scheme.

Starting out as a pizza delivery driver and hardware store sales assistant, and with National Park ranger career aspirations, he fell into contaminated land work while filling in for someone on annual leave

Dr Karl Bowles is a Senior Principal Environmental Scientist with Jacobs and Adjunct Associate Professor at UQ QAEHS. He has over 30 years of experience within consultancy, government, research, and university sectors, providing expert technical advice on the fate, transport, impacts and risks on a wide range of chemical contaminants. He enthusiastically collaborates and has over 40 publications.