We are pleased to announce that Maria L. Loureiro (Universidade de Santiago de Compostela) and Martin Brocklehurst (Kempley Green Consultants) will give the keynote addresses.
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Climate Change and the Energy Paradox: Lessons obtained from Big Data (Maria L. Loureiro)
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Secondary raw materials: challenges and opportunities in Europe (Martin Brocklehurst)
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Maria Loureiro is Professor in the Department of Economic Theory in the University of Santiago de Compostela, being her research area environmental economics. She obtained her PhD from Washington State University (USA). She held faculty and research positions at Colorado State University (USA), Universidad Carlos III de Madrid (Spain), and the Institute of Bioeconomy in Oslo. She has published her work in prestigious journals, including: American Journal of Agricultural Economics, Energy and Resource Economics, Energy Economics, Environmental and Resource Economics, European Review of Agricultural Economics, Plos One, Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics and Land Economics, among others. Currently, she serves as secretary of the Spanish Association of Environmental and Resource Economics (AERNA) and is also an EAERE council member.
Martin Brocklehurst is currently operating as an Independent Environmental Adviser now well known for developing a series of successful international EU funded partnerships testing new ideas in waste and resource management. He has experience as an Executive Manager with 14 years work in the oil and gas business for BP & Chevron and 13 years with the Environment Agency of England & Wales. He is an experienced waste professional, an expert in EU and UK environmental regulation, waste and resource management, environmental impact assessment and health safety & environment auditing in the oil and gas business. He has had a central role in shaping and implementing waste policy in the UK and is a leading advocate of the Circular Economy within the waste industry. Martin is a member of CIWM (2007); ISWA (2011); the Energy Institute (1992); Fellow of the RSA (2006); Member of the Aldersgate Group (2012) and a retired member of the Landscape Institute (1978).