Presidential Team

Professor David C Wilson MBE - President

David has a first degree in Chemistry from Oxford; followed by a doctorate sponsored by the old Harwell Laboratory (Atomic Energy Research Establishment).

He then joined the commercial consultancy arm of Harwell, inter alia running a hazardous waste research unit for the Department of the Environment (DOE). After 5 years, he won a contract in Hong Kong for 18 months to develop a computerised decision support system which the government used to plan their modern municipal solid waste facilities. Shortly after returning to England, David joined Environmental Resources Limited (ERL) now ERM. He led ERM's international waste management practice for 20 years.

For the last 10 years, David has worked as an independent consultant. Advising Defra until March 2013 on their Waste and Resources Evidence Programme. David has authored many high profile international reports.

Since 2000, David has been a Visiting Professor in the Civil and Environmental Engineering Department at Imperial College London. He is a Chartered Chemist, a Chartered Waste Manager.

He was recruited in 1984 as a founding member of ISWA's first Working Group, on Hazardous Wastes (WGHW), and also of the Editorial Board for ISWA's peer-reviewed journal Waste Management & Research; and continues to serve on both.

Enda Kiernan - Senior Vice President

Enda is a Civil Engineering graduate from the University of Ulster, Jordanstown, a Chartered Waste Manager, becoming a Fellow of the Institution in January 2011. He is the current chair of the Rep of Ireland Centre. He is also a General Councillor and a Trustee of CIWM and was a Non-Executive Director of CIWM Enterprises from 2012 – 2015.

Enda has worked in the Local Authority service since 1997, specialising in Waste Management and in Waste Operations in particular. His experience includes waste licence applications for landfill facilities, waste licence implementation on landfill and civic amenity facilities, environmental management systems, project management of the design, construction and operation of civic amenity facilities, landfill. He has been involved in preparation of tender documentation and tender evaluation of waste related infrastructure. Other areas of expertise relate to the permitting of waste facilities, waste enforcement, street cleansing and infrastructure development, CA Site Construction Programme and implementation of the WEEE Directive in Ireland. He was Project Manager for the introduction of Pay By Weight and the Kerbside collection of Dry Recyclables in South Cork. This involved the distribution of 80000-wheeled bins, the purchase of new collection vehicles, public communications and the upgrading of existing bin lifter stock.

He has previously advised LARAC, WRAP, DEFRA & CIWM in consultations in connection on Pay As You Throw charging systems. He was involved in an operational sub - committee established by the Irish Dept. of the Environment in 2004 on the implementation of the WEEE Directive and again in 2015/2016 on the implementation of Pay By Weight.

Elected as Junior Vice President of the Institution in 2016, he is currently the Head of Waste Enforcement at Cork County Council.


Trevor Nicoll - Junior Vice President

Trevor is a senior officer in a large local authority having recently been appointed as Head of Shared Waste Services for Cambridge City and South Cambridgeshire District Councils.  Prior to this, he was Head of Recycling, Waste and Fleet Services at Newcastle under Lyme Borough Council in North Staffordshire.  Trevor has extensive experience of issues affecting waste services in local authorities, including insourcing recycling collections from the contractor, procuring waste treatment contracts and collection vehicles, operating trade waste services and delivering efficiencies during highly austere times for local authorities.  He was previously Chair of the Staffordshire Waste Officers Group.

Like many professionals working in the resource and waste sector, Trevor’s career started in another profession.  After graduating from Newcastle upon Tyne University, Trevor worked in surveying, undertaking much international travel as a hydrographic surveyor in the oil and gas industry.  Transferring his skills to the waste sector, he joined a waste management consultancy in 2005 and quickly gained industry knowledge through a variety of different projects.

Trevor is passionate about the education of professionals working in the resource and waste industry.  He is currently the Chair of CIWM’s Education and Training Committee and is a Director and Trustee of WAMITAB (Waste Management Industry Training and Advisory Board).

Since becoming a Chartered Member in 2009, Trevor has actively contributed to the work of CIWM, through the roles mentioned above, and by being on the Midlands Centre Council, organising an annual conference with LARAC (Local Authority Recycling and Advisory Committtee) in the Midlands region for the last 5 years. In addition, he has encouraged numerous non-corporate CIWM members to apply for Chartered and Fellow membership grades.

Trevor is a Fellow and Trustee of CIWM with his Presidential Year being 2019-2020.  

Professor Margaret Bates - Immediate Past President

Margaret has worked her way from lecturer to Professor at the University of Northampton and is presently the Chair of the Institution's Scientific & Technical Committee.

Over many years as a lecturer, researcher and presenter at conferences she has developed an expertise in landfill, energy from waste, resource efficiency and more recently WEEE.

Among her achievements, Margaret has advised two African governments (Kenya and Nigeria) on the development of policy relating to wastes management and has delivered training on developing effective policy and regulation for several more (through the United Nations University).

Her work has featured on BBC Panorama, in the Guardian newspaper, Radio 4 You and Yours, Radio 4 World at One, The Sun, News of the World, Mail, Mail on Sunday as well as on local radio, television and newspapers.

Dr Adam Read - Junior Vice -President Elect.

 

Adam is External Affairs Director at SUEZ Recycling & Recovery UK Ltd, responsible for government engagement, consultation responses and general stakeholder management. He also spends a lot of his time on technical working groups and committees on behalf of the ESA, FEAD, ISWA and of course the CIWM. Adam has been in the waste & resources sector for over 20 years’ first as a local authority recycling officer with the Royal Borough of Kensington & Chelsea, and then as an academic and lecturer at Kingston University, where his PhD investigated the value of statutory targets and household communication in meeting UK Government recycling targets.

Adam then spent 17 years in consultancy, with ERM, Hyder (now Arcadis) and AEA (now Ricardo) developing teams of waste and resource management specialists, and delivering major support programmes on behalf of key organisations including WRAP, DEFRA and ZWS. Adam has specialised in recycling service design, consultation and procurement, working with many of the sector’s most innovative authorities, including the roll-out of AWC in Daventry DC, 3 weekly residual waste collections in Scotland, and WRAP’s initial food waste collection pilots. He has also led major waste infrastructure procurement projects for a mix of facilities from MBT and AD to EfW, supporting the likes of Essex CC and West Sussex CC’s as they developed their new long terms waste strategies and associated facilities.

Adam has been active internationally for much of his career, developing national, regional and city waste strategies in many far flung locations (Russia, Mali, India, Australia etc.) and has been a member of ISWA since 1995. Adam has always enjoyed participating in international conferences and workshops, sharing ideas and learning about different contexts, policy environments and best practice. He is an active member of the ISWA Communications Working Group and sits on the CIWM’s ISWA Steering Group.

Since joining SUEZ Adam has been involved in developing the SUEZ vision for Resources & Waste Management in England, has led value chain workshops on a hoist of technical issues from DRS and EPR to bespoke recycling targets and has worked hard with both the municipal and commercial teams on targeted business development and client relationship building. He has hosted many study tours, technical visits and film crews at SUEZ sites, explaining the nuances of SRF production, MRF operations and energy recovery processes and is a regular media commentator on hot topics like recycling exports, contamination, residual waste capacity and DRS.

Adam has been passionate about waste and its management since his days on litter duty at primary school, and continues to promote education, training and skills development through his involvement with the ESA, his long standing position on CIWM’s Education and Training Committee and will continue to do so through his recent appointment as a Director and Trustee of WAMITAB (the Waste Management Industry Training and Advisory Board).

Adam has been a Chartered Waste Manager  since 2001 and a Fellow of the CIWM since 2007. He has been an active member for almost 20 years, initially through the New Member Networks, then London & Southern Counties Centre. He has been a Midland Centre Councillor for many years (and former Chair), and has actively supported many other Regional Centres with presentations, workshops and site visits over the years. Adam has encouraged and supported his teams, colleagues and clients to become actively involved in CIWM (currently there are 3 General Councillors and 10 Centre Councillors that he has actively influenced over the years), and has mentored 50 successful candidates to chartered status, whilst continuing to communicate the benefits of CIWM membership at any opportunity.

Adam is a Trustee of CIWM and a Member of the Executive Committee, helping to steer the Institution forward as it adjusts to a changing global and local environment. He is committed to developing the role of the CIWM in an ever shifting waste & resource space, and is a huge supporter of the NMN as a means of reaching out to the next generation of resource managers. Adam will be President from October 2020 and his year will focus on NEW – new people, new skills, new sectors, and new policy agendas……..