Biodiversity from a chemicals perspective: tools for reducing negative impacts of chemicals on the environment Meet the speakers
24 - 26 June 2026
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Session 1: Welcome and setting the scene
Bob Diderich
Head of the Environment, Health and Safety Division, Environment Directorate OECD
Bob Diderich is Head of the Environment, Health and Safety Division at the Environment Directorate of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.
Bob Diderich has been involved in environmental hazard and risk assessment of chemical substances since 1992, when he joined the German Federal Environmental Agency. He was working in France between 1995 and 2002, first for the French Ministry of the Environment and then the French National Institute for Industrial Environment and Risks, where he was assessing the environmental risks of industrial chemicals and biocides. In 2002 he joined the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development where he was in charge of the OECD Cooperative Chemicals Assessment Programme and the OECD Project on (Quantitative) Structure Activity Relationships. Since 2012 he is the head of the Environment, Health and Safety Division.
Michelle Embry (LinkedIn, Google Scholar)
Deputy Director
Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI)
Dr Michelle Embry is Deputy Director of the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI Global), a non-profit with a mission to develop science for a safer, more sustainable world. She is also the Director of HESI’s Center for Environmental and Ecological Health. She holds a PhD in toxicology from Duke University and has over 20 years of expertise in human and health and ecological risk assessment, with a focus on methods and approaches to ensure safe and effective use of chemicals and products. Her work at HESI brings together scientists from multiple sectors, geographies, and disciplines to address current challenges related to the safety of chemicals for humans and the environment. She leads the HESI Global Risk Assessment Training Center (GRATC), an initiative aimed at increasing access to and availability of foundational chemical risk assessment training and resources, particularly in low and middle-income and resource-limited regions.
Prior to joining HESI, Dr. Embry was a biologist at the USEPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Fate and Effects Division. She has authored over seventy peer-reviewed publications has served on multiple international advisory committees and professional society boards. She is also a co-editor of Elsevier’s NAM Journal.
Kristin Schirmer
Group leader and deputy head of the Environmental Toxicology Department EAWAG, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Prof. Kristin Schirmer is group leader and deputy head of the Department of Environmental Toxicology at Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, and she teaches (eco) toxicology at Eawag and at the Technical University of Zürich (ETHZ). Trained as cell biologist, she is guiding research to advance animal cellular models to understand the impact of chemicals and other stressors in aquatic ecosystems with a particular focus on fish. As part of this work, she has led the development of the RTgill-W1 cell line assay for the prediction of acute fish toxicity toward ISO (21115) and OECD (TG249) approval, coming to experience the full value chain from assay initiation to international standardization and transferring New Approach Methodology (NAM) to society. In this context, she is co-founder and partner of the aQuaTox-Solutions GmbH, which originated from Eawag and comprises the first enterprise to offer fish cell line assays as a service. She serves on a variety of working group to advance the development of NAM and mainstream their use as informative alternatives to conventional animal tests. She is recipient of research, teaching and technology transfer awards and has supervised young scientists, stemming from over 20 countries, on all levels of training.
Lieve Herman
Head of the Unit Technology and Food Science Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO)
Lieve Herman is head of the Unit Technology and Food Science at Flanders Research Institute for Agriculture, Fisheries and Food (ILVO). Lieve has a PhD (University of Ghent) in molecular genetics with as topic the genetic modification of plants. She has postdoc experience in molecular food microbiology, especially concerning microbiological food safety including antimicrobial resistance and the molecular mechanisms behind, genetically modified microorganism used in food applications and risk assessment in food safety. She carries also the responsibility for the development of the Food Pilot program, a living lab to support the co-creative process with stakeholders in the agrofood column to support food innovation. She is vice-chair of the European Food Safety Agency (EFSA) BIOHAZ panel, chair of the working group on the Qualified Assumption of Safety (QPS) concept of microorganisms and of several working groups of EFSA dealing with molecular microbiological safety assessment, including the working group on microbial pesticides. She is president of the Scientific Committee of the Belgian Food Safety Agency.
Patience Browne
Head of the Hazard Assessment and Exposure Assessment Programmes, Environment, Health and Safety Division, Environment Directorate OECD
Dr. Patience Browne leads the Hazard Assessment and Exposure Assessment Programmes in the Environment, Health, and Safety Division of the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) in Paris, France. She joined OECD in 2016 in the Test Guidelines Programme, where she worked on validation of internationally harmonised methods, and she previously led the OECD Pesticide Programme. Prior to joining the OECD, Dr. Browne was a Senior Scientist in the US EPA, Office of Science Coordination and Policy and helped foster the use of in vitro assay data in the EPA’s Endocrine Disruptor Screening Programme.
Dr Browne completed her MS in Marine Biology and PhD in Molecular, Cellular, and Integrative Physiology at University of California, Davis and held postdoctoral research positions in the Department of Population Health and Reproduction at UC Davis and in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology at University of Washington. After completing her Masters degree, Dr Browne conducted field research for the US National Marine Mammal Laboratory. Throughout her career, Dr Browne has focused on quantifying effects of chemicals on humans and the environment and developing confidence in methods to measure chemical effects that use the best science with the fewest negative impacts on animals.
Shardul Agrawala Head of the Environment and Economy Integration Division, Environment Directorate, OECD
Shardul Agrawala, Head of the Environment and Economy Integration Division at the OECD Environment Directorate. In this capacity, Dr. Agrawala leads the Directorate’s work on economicenvironmental modelling, empirical analysis of environmental policies, trade and environment, and on resource productivity and waste.
At the OECD since 2002, Dr. Agrawala has previously served as Senior Advisor to the OECD Secretary General, Co-ordinator of the OECD-wide initiative on New Approaches to Economic Challenges, Acting Head of the Climate Change Biodiversity and Development Division, and Senior Economist Climate Change. He has published extensively, primarily on climate change, and led teams of international experts for chapters of the Fourth and Fifth Assessment Reports of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC). Dr Agrawala received his PhD from Princeton University and has previously held research positions at Princeton University, Harvard University, Columbia University and at the International Institute of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA).
Rebecca Dalton
Acting
Senior Science Advisor
in the Substance Prioritization, Assessment and Coordination Division
Environment and Climate Change Canada
Dr. Rebecca Dalton is an Acting Senior Science Advisor in the Substance Prioritization, Assessment and Coordination Division of Environment and Climate Change Canada. She leads and provides advice on regulatory ecological risk assessment activities, including several initiatives aimed at modernizing ecological risk assessment. Prior to joining Environment and Climate Change Canada in 2017, Dr. Dalton completed a Postdoctoral Fellowship in Ecotoxicology and obtained Ph.D. and M.Sc. degrees in Biology with a specialization in Chemical and Environmental Toxicology from the University of Ottawa and Carleton University, respectively. Her research focused on understanding the effects of chemicals and other stressors on freshwater ecosystems through laboratory, mesocosm and watershed scale studies, including studies aimed at understanding changes in plant community structure and biodiversity across gradients of agrochemical contamination.
Session 2: Policies and Metrics: linking chemicals to biodiversity
Joseph Shaw
Chair and professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs, Indiana University, USA
Joe Shaw holds the Paul O’Neill Chair and is a professor in the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at Indiana University. As a toxicologist with over 20 years of experience, he has worked to infuse evolutionary principals into the field. His research seeks to understand how rapidly changing and polluted environments shape organisms and populations, at times contributing to disease and at other times allowing them to adapt and survive. He is part of the PrecisionTox project a European Commission Horizon 2020 project, which uses phylogenomic tools, coupled with evolutionary theory, probabilistic modeling, deep phenotyping, and informatics to develop New Approach Methodologies (NAMs) that are more broadly interpretable across the Tree of Life.
Peter Campbell
Global Head of Product Safety Science Strategy Jealotts Hill Research Centre, UK
Dr Peter Campbell is Global Head of Product Safety Science Strategy based at the Jealotts Hill Research Centre in UK. He has worked with Syngenta in the field of environmental risk assessment of Pesticides for 29 years. He is a Fellow of the Society for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC) and currently Chairs both Environmental Expert Group and Biodiversity Steering team of Crop Life Europe. Prior to joining Syngenta he was Head of Ecotoxicology at the UK Pesticide Regulatory Authority.
Aaron Stoler
Managing Scientist, Ecological and Biological Sciences Exponent
Aaron Stoler, Ph.D. is a Managing Scientist in the Ecological and Biological Sciences practice at Exponent, Inc. He is an applied ecologist with research and consulting experience in biodiversity, ecosystem function, wetland ecology, forest ecology, ecosystem services, and sustainable business strategies. His work includes ecological evaluation, biodiversity monitoring, habitat restoration, and support for environmental and sustainability related projects in both the private and public sectors. Dr. Stoler holds a B.S. in Environmental Sciences from the University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and a Ph.D. in Biology from the University of Pittsburgh. He is a Certified Senior Ecologist through the Ecological Society of America and co-founded the Society’s section for Private and Public Sector Ecologists. Prior to joining Exponent, he worked as an applied ecologist with ExxonMobil Biomedical Sciences, Inc., served as a research scientist with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, and was an Assistant Professor of Environmental Science at Stockton University. He is technically trained as both an experimental and field ecologist, with a rigorous background in multivariate statistical analysis of complex ecological systems. Dr. Stoler uses his experience across multiple economic sectors to find integrative and lasting solutions for challenging environmental problems.
Stephanie Bopp Project leader
European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC)
Stephanie Bopp is a project leader at the European Commission Joint Research Centre (JRC) in Ispra (Italy). She works in the Systems Toxicology Unit, which develops, evaluates, harmonises and promotes innovative methods for the regulatory safety assessment of chemicals used in a variety of sectors, with the additional aim of protecting animals used for scientific purposes. Stephanie coordinates the unit activities on chemical impacts on human health and the environment, with her own activities focusing on impacts of chemical pollution on biodiversity, combined exposures to multiple chemicals, use and sharing of chemical monitoring data and taking care of the European Commission Information Platform for Chemical Monitoring (IPCHEM).
Before, she worked in the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) on pesticide environmental risk assessment, at the JRC in the area of environmental toxicogenomics, and at the University of Basel on biological monitoring, ecotoxicology and passive sampling. She has degrees in Geoecology/Environmental Sciences (University of Bayreuth) and a PhD in Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research UFZ/University of Rostock).
Malgorzata Alicja Stylo
Programme Management Officer, Chemicals and Health Branch, United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
Malgorzata Stylo is a Programme Management Officer at the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), Chemicals and Health Branch, based in Geneva. She has an interdisciplinary background, holding a PhD in Environmental Sciences from the École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) and an Executive Certificate in Environmental Governance from the Graduate Institute. She brings over 10 years of experience in environmental science, research, and governance.
At UNEP, Malgorzata serves as the global coordinator for the Secretariat of the Global Mercury Partnership, a multi-sectoral network of experts and organizations that supports the timely and effective implementation of the Minamata Convention on Mercury. She also works on broader issues related to heavy metals pollution, strengthening the linkages between pollution, biodiversity, and climate change agendas, and detoxifying cosmetics and mining sectors.
Ksenia
Groh
Head of the Bioanalytics Group
EAWAG, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Ksenia Groh holds a PhD in molecular ecotoxicology from University of Bern (2006). She worked in research at Eawag – Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology (2007-2015) and in science communication and chemicals policy at Food Packaging Forum Zurich (2016-2021). Since 2021, Ksenia leads the Bioanalytics group at Eawag, focusing on developing proteomics applications in ecotoxicology, omics-enhanced non-animal toxicity testing methods and strategies for assessment of polymers and complex materials, guided by the adverse outcome pathways (AOP) concept and safe and sustainable by design (SSbD) principles. She is also deeply committed to help transfer research findings into practice and inform science-policy dialogue on chemical management and biodiversity protection. For example, she has led an international effort to explore the challenges with and solutions for inclusion of chemical considerations into biodiversity research, and she initiated scientific contributions to the negotiation process for the Kunming-Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework, helping to broaden the scope of chemicals included in its Target 7 dealing with pollution.
Session 3 - Strategies and Challenges in Specific Countries
Koki Takaki
Director of the Office of Mercury and International Chemicals Management Ministry of the Environment, Japan
Dr. Koki Takaki is Director of the Office of Mercury and International Chemicals Management at the Ministry of the Environment, Japan. He leads Japan’s work on international chemicals and waste policy, including the Global Framework on Chemicals (GFC), the Minamata Convention on Mercury, and the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Panel on Chemicals, Waste and Pollution (ISP-CWP). He previously served at the OECD Environment Directorate as a Policy Analyst and currently serves as Regional Focal Point for Asia-Pacific on the GFC Bureau and as Co-Chair of the Bureau of the OECD Working Party on Risk Management. He holds a PhD in Environmental Science from the University of Reading, UK, with a research focus on chemical exposure and risk assessment.
Debbie Muir
Pesticide Risk Manager/ Biodiversity Officer Control Grade B Department of Forestry, Fisheries and Environment (DFFE), South Africa
Debbie Muir is the Pesticide Risk Manager/ Biodiversity Officer Control Grade B for DFFE and holds a MSc in Botany (UPE) and Post Graduate Diploma in Pesticide Risk Management (UCT) with 4 International Diplomas from the United Nations (UN). She has international accreditations from UN for Environmental Law, Chemicals & Waste, Biodiversity & Agriculture, UN Statistical Institute for Climate Change, Food and Agriculture Organization and World Health Organization (FAO/WHO) for Highly Hazardous Pesticides and University of Stockholm for the Assessment and Management of Chemicals. She is the focal point for South Africa for FAO’s Forestry Invasive Species Network Africa (FISNA). She developed the Pesticide Policy for DFFE and is currently working on the biomonitoring protocols in line with WHO guidelines. She was part of the HHP committee that developed the SADC HHP strategy and ICGEB Biopesticides Registration Regulatory Frameworks. She is a member of SABS TC1028 working group on Pesticides and initiated the SA ICPPE project as part of the Global ICPPE project looking at operator exposure risk assessments. She is a published scientist working tirelessly to reduce HHPs, safeguard human health and environment and comply to the Paris Agreement and UNFCCC.
Karla Pozo Gallardo Associate Professor
Universidad San Sebastián, Concepción, Chile
Karla Pozo is an associate researcher at RECETOX (Research center for toxic compounds in the environment), Masaryk University in the city of Brno Czech Republic. She moved from Chile in 2000 to Italy where she completed her PhD studies at university of Siena (UNISI). In 2004, she got a postdoctoral position at Air quality branch, Environment Canada in the city of Toronto, Canada. From 2007 to 2012 she conducted research and academic activities at the department of environmental science at University of Siena. Dr. Pozo joined RECETOX research center at Masaryk University in 2012. In 2018 she was invited to be part of Faculty of Engineering at Universidad San Sebastian in Concepción Chile. Karla Pozo is co-author of over 100 peer-reviewed publications; she is in the editorial/review panel of several ISI Journals and actively collaborates with leading national and international Institutions. Dr. Pozo participates at the international Chemical Agenda Committee of the Chilean minister of the environment and as external participant of the Chilean delegation engaged in the global plastic treat (INC: Intergovernmental Negotiating Committee (INC)). Karla Pozo has over twenty years of working experience in the field of Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs). She has strongly contributed to studies on long-range transport of chemicals and investigated their presence, distribution, and fate along latitudinal and altitudinal north-south transects in different continents. Since 2012, she has studied the nearshore bays behaviors in central Chile and the impacts of plastic pollution in biotic and abiotic compartments.
Charles Eason
Professor at Lincoln University and Pou Whakahaere Pūtaiao (Chief Scientist) at Wakatū Incorporation
Professor Charles Eason, Lincoln University, NZ has a background in toxicology and pharmacology and the development of medicines and pest control products. He specialized in pharmacokinetics linked to the safety and efficacy of drugs, natural compounds and vertebrate pesticides and in the challenging area of vertebrate pesticide safety. In addition he is part of a Māori led research team advancing an Indigenous Pharmacopoeia and reintroducing traditional Māori approaches to horticulture to improve biodiversity and soil health as part of a 5 -year programme entitled Kai Anamata mō Aotearoa ( Future Food ).
He has an extensive publication track record and has held influential leadership roles in the New Zealand scientific community, directly impacting the country’s primary industries and environmental management systems and was awarded Companion of the Royal Society of New Zealand in 2016, The Thomson Medal for research leadership in 2018 and Companion of the New Zealand Order of Merit in 2019 and Fellow of the Royal Society of NZ in 2021.
Session 4 - Considerations for predicting chemical effects across species
Michelle Embry (LinkedIn, Google Scholar) Deputy Director Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI)
Dr Michelle Embry is Deputy Director of the Health and Environmental Sciences Institute (HESI Global), a non-profit with a mission to develop science for a safer, more sustainable world. She is also the Director of HESI’s Center for Environmental and Ecological Health. She holds a PhD in toxicology from Duke University and has over 20 years of expertise in human and health and ecological risk assessment, with a focus on methods and approaches to ensure safe and effective use of chemicals and products. Her work at HESI brings together scientists from multiple sectors, geographies, and disciplines to address current challenges related to the safety of chemicals for humans and the environment. She leads the HESI Global Risk Assessment Training Center (GRATC), an initiative aimed at increasing access to and availability of foundational chemical risk assessment training and resources, particularly in low and middle-income and resource-limited regions.
Prior to joining HESI, Dr. Embry was a biologist at the USEPA’s Office of Pesticide Programs, Environmental Fate and Effects Division. She has authored over seventy peer-reviewed publications has served on multiple international advisory committees and professional society boards. She is also a co-editor of Elsevier’s NAM Journal.
Carlie LaLone
Chemist, Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Chemical Information, Prioritization, and TRI Division U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), Duluth, Minnesota
Carlie LaLone, Ph.D., is a Chemist with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) in the Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics, Chemical Information, Prioritization, and TRI Division in Duluth, Minnesota. Prior to her current role, Dr. LaLone’s research focused on developing computational tools to help scientists and decision makers extrapolate biological information across diverse species and predict chemical susceptibility in organisms that cannot be tested directly. She led multidisciplinary teams integrating bioinformatics, computational modeling, and laboratory studies to evaluate pharmaceuticals, veterinary drugs, pesticides, endocrine -active chemicals, and other substances of concern. Her work emphasized translating complex methodologies into user-friendly pipelines and web -based tools to strengthen ecological risk assessment.
In her current position, Dr. LaLone is dedicated to facilitating the integration of new approach methodologies and responsible generative -AI-based data extraction to inform the PFAS National Testing Strategy. She serves as Chair and Co-founder of the International Consortium to Advance Cross-Species Extrapolation in Regulation (ICACSER), Associate Editor for Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, and Adjunct Faculty at the University of Minnesota Duluth.
Kristin Schirmer
Group leader and deputy head of the Environmental Toxicology Department EAWAG, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology
Prof. Kristin Schirmer is group leader and deputy head of the Department of Environmental Toxicology at Eawag, the Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, and she teaches (eco) toxicology at Eawag and at the Technical University of Zürich (ETHZ). Trained as cell biologist, she is guiding research to advance animal cellular models to understand the impact of chemicals and other stressors in aquatic ecosystems with a particular focus on fish. As part of this work, she has led the development of the RTgill-W1 cell line assay for the prediction of acute fish toxicity toward ISO (21115) and OECD (TG249) approval, coming to experience the full value chain from assay initiation to international standardization and transferring New Approach Methodology (NAM) to society. In this context, she is co-founder and partner of the aQuaTox-Solutions GmbH, which originated from Eawag and comprises the first enterprise to offer fish cell line assays as a service. She serves on a variety of working group to advance the development of NAM and mainstream their use as informative alternatives to conventional animal tests. She is recipient of research, teaching and technology transfer awards and has supervised young scientists, stemming from over 20 countries, on all levels of training.
Session 5 - Other tools
Kristy Deiner Founder SimplexDNA
Prof. Dr. Kristy Deiner is a scientist, former professor and now innovator in biodiversity monitoring and environmental genomics. She is co-founder of ETH spin-off, SimplexDNA, where she advances the use of environmental DNA (eDNA) technologies to detect and quantify biodiversity across ecosystems. Her work focuses on developing scalable, high-resolution tools for ecological assessment, with applications in conservation, infrastructure, and environmental risk evaluation. Kristy collaborates across academia, industry, and policy to integrate cutting-edge molecular methods into decision-making frameworks. She is particularly interested in linking biodiversity data to actionable outcomes, including regenerative finance and environmental impact assessment for biodiversity-positive development and global environmental stewardship.
Pim Wassenaar
Computational toxicologist
Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM)
Pim Wassenaar is a computational toxicologist at the Dutch National Institute for Public Health and the Environment (RIVM). Within the Centre for Safety of Substances and Products, Pim leads and coordinates activities involving the application of artificial intelligence and machine learning to improve chemical risk assessment.
Jean Lou Dorne
Senior Scientific Officer in Toxicology and Lead Expert in New Approach Methodologies
European Food Safety Authority (EFSA)
Jean Lou Dorne has been working at EFSA as Senior Scientific Officer in Toxicology for 20 years and currently as the lead expert in NAMs within the Chief Scientist Office. Previously, he spent 9 years at the University of Southampton for his PhD/5 years Postdoctoral research UK on “human variability in kinetics and metabolism and refinement of uncertainty factors for chemical risk assessment”. At EFSA, his work focuses on supporting other units in chemical risk assessment and guidance development, open-source toxicological databases such as EFSA’s OpenFoodTox as well as physiologically-based kinetic models including the TKPlate platform published in November 2023, NAMs in toxicology and ecotoxicology including QSARs and training in chemical risk assessment at EFSA and internationally. Active member of Eurotox and the international consortium “Accelerating the pace of chemical risk assessment (APCRA) with over 250 members across the world. Over 200 peer reviewed publications, 130 EFSA outputs, 10 book chapters (H-index:54).
John Colbourne
Professor / Chair of Environmental Genomics, Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice (CERJ) & Co-Founder of Michabo Health Science Ltd Birmingham, UK
John specialises in applying omics in environmental research and pursuing Precision Toxicology. He is internationally recognised for his contributions to the establishment of genomics-enabled model species. For example, his work led to Daphnia being designated as a biomedical model species by the US National Institutes of Health. John holds the Chair of Environmental Genomics at the University of Birmingham (UoB) in the United Kingdom. He is the co-founder of Michabo Health Science Limited, co-founder of the international Environment Care Consortium, and the Solve Pollution Network. He is the Director of the Centre for Environmental Research and Justice at UoB and advises the UK government through his membership of the Hazardous Substances Advisory Committee. Finally, he coordinates the H2020-funded PrecisionTox project, which is part of the ASPIS cluster, and he serves on the UK steering group for the Partnership for the Assessment of Risks from Chemicals.
Session 6 - Examples, applications and case studies
Ho-Joong (Jay) Kim
Policy Analyst on secondment to the OECD from the Korea Environment Corporation (KECO), a government- affiliated agency under the Ministry of Environment of the Republic of Korea.
Ho-Joong (Jay) Kim is a Policy Analyst currently seconded to the OECD, working on chemical safety, environmental management and risk governance. His role includes supporting policy dialogue and analytical work related to sustainability.
Before joining the OECD, he worked at the Korea Environment Corporation (K eco), a government-affiliated agency under the Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment of the Republic of Korea. His responsibilities included soil and groundwater management, as well as the assessment and management of contaminated sites. Building on national-level policy implementation experience, he contributes to work on sustainable environmental approaches that integrate human health protection with environmental and biodiversity considerations.
Susan Willis Chan
Adjunct professor, School of Environmental Sciences, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
Susan Chan is an adjunct professor in the School of Environmental Sciences at the University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada. Susan studies the agro-ecology of crop-associated ground nesting wild bees with a special focus on the oligolectic hoary squash bee in association with Cucurbita crops (pumpkins, squashes, gourds). Susan is interested in developing a model system that can be used to evaluate the environmental toxicity of soil-applied pesticides on ground-nesting wild bees and advance a more appropriate risk assessment framework for those species.
Anna
Cruz
Director of the Scientific Practice Section in the Australian Industrial Chemicals Introduction Scheme (AICIS)
Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care
Dr Anna Cruz is the Director of the Scientific Practice Section in the Australian Industrial Chemicals Introduction Scheme (AICIS), Australian Government Department of Health and Aged Care. She has a background in chemical engineering, environmental sciences and computational modelling and extensive experience in human and environmental risk assessments from almost 20 years of assessing and reviewing the risks of industrial and multiuse chemicals. Areas of expertise include in silico methodology, particularly (quantitative) structure-activity relationships [(Q) SARs], exposure assessment, data science, and Australian and overseas industrial chemicals regulation.
Jacques L’Haridon
Manager of Environmental Scientific Expertise, For The Future & Green Sciences Directorate L’Oreal, France (Clichy
Available soon.
Bryan Brooks
Professor of Environmental Science and Public Health Baylor University, USA
Bryan W. Brooks is Distinguished Professor of Environmental Science and Public Health at Baylor University, USA. His research interests include eco-, environmental and comparative toxicology, environmental and green chemistry, chemical assessment and management, harmful algal blooms, the sustainability of health care, and environmental public health practice. Bryan Brooks serves as Editor-in-Chief of Environmental Science & Technology Letters (ACS Publications), and previously served as Editor in Chief of Environmental Management (Springer Nature). He is a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, and the Royal Society of Chemistry.
Recommendations and Next Steps
09:00 - 10:30 Item 29. Small group discussions
• Discussion Lead + Rapporteur
10:30 - 11:00 BREAK
11:00 - 12:30 Item 30. Switch group
• Discussion Lead + Rapporteur
12:30 - 14:00 LUNCH
14:00 - 15:00 Item 31. Reports back from groups
• Discussion Lead + Rapporteur
15:00 - 16:30 Item 32. Recommendations for work at OECD
• Plenary
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