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Victoria is an environmental health risk assessor with over 20 years of professional experience across consulting, research, academia, and government. Her primary work focuses on the assessment of the human health and ecological effects of chemicals in the environment, with a particular interest in assessing novel or emerging contaminants.

Victoria currently runs her own consulting firm, Terravale Consulting, while also being active in academia and industry roles. These additional roles currently include working on a PhD, teaching M.Sc. (Public Health) students at La Trobe and in PNG since 2013, reviewing new guidance documents for WHO, and developing risk assessment training materials for ANZ practitioners. Victoria was made a Fellow of ACTRA in 2018 and is regularly invited to present technical seminars, workshops, and training events across Australia and internationally.

Katie Richardson leads Senversa’s risk assessment practice, bringing over two decades of expertise in human health and ecological risk assessments. She has extensive recent experience in developing efficient and pragmatic assessment approaches for contaminants which accumulate in food. Katie is recognised by the Australasian College of Toxicology and Risk Assessment (ACTRA) on their Professional Register and currently serves as ACTRA’s Vice President.

Jackie Wright is the Director/Principal of Environmental Risk Sciences Pty Ltd. She has more than 30 years of experience in human health and environmental risk assessment in Australia.

Experience includes the conduct of numerous risk assessments of varying complexity, leading and developing a national risk practice group for a major consultancy, providing professional training and direction, developing technical standards and guidance, developing appropriate risk models, and providing peer-review and expert evidence.

Jackie has been heavily involved in the development of national guidance and investigation levels as presented in the National Environment Protection Measure (NEPM) for Site Contamination (2013), CRC CARE Technical Guidance on Petroleum Vapour Intrusion and Silica-Gel Cleanup, Australian Crime Commission Assessment and Remediation of Clandestine Drug Laboratories (2011) and Australian Voluntary Code of Practice, Assessment, remediation and validation: Former clandestine drug laboratories and other methamphetamine contaminated properties.

Dr Carolyn Brumley is a senior principal at Senversa, specialising in human health and ecological risk assessment. She is a Fellow of the Australasian College of Toxicology and Risk Assessment and the co-chair of the ALGA Specialist Interest Group for Risk Assessment. She has focused on all things contaminant and risk-related throughout her career and is committed to using risk assessment to support overall environmental benefit.

Naomi is an environmental toxicologist with over 20 years’ experience in private and university sectors. Naomi’s key experience has included designing and overseeing site contamination assessments on large sites and for clients with multiple sites, development of water quality guidelines, development of risk matrices, and ecological risk assessments on a range of contaminants in soil and water in both local and regional areas across Australia.