Briana Gunn
Director, Environmental Affairs Sustainability & External Relations - Newmont Goldcorp
Briana Gunn is an environmental director for Newmont Mining Corporation. She has devoted her career to supporting mining through the full life cycle identifying and mitigating risks around water management. She holds a BS/MS in Civil Engineering from the University read more
Blair Douglas
Head of Water - BHP
Blair Douglas is the Global Practice Lead for Hydrology and Water for BHP, a Leadership role setting technical direction on water management with the water planning and operational teams across multiple commodities to lift capability and awareness of water related read more
Jerry Zozo
Superintendent - Kibali Gold Mine
Jerry is a civil engineer with an extensive academic background in environmental engineering and water resources management (BSc in Environmental Engineering, National University of Rwanda). Throughout his career he has developed specialized and technical skills in mining water management, compliance read more
Sebastian Greco
Head of Strategic Planning - BHP
Sebastián Greco is Head of Strategic Services for BHP Minerals Americas business, including the accountability of both water and energy strategy for the operations in Chile. Since he joined the mining industry with BHP in 2008, he has been leading strategic read more
Alexis Morgan
Global Water Stewardship Lead - WWF
Alexis Morgan leads WWF’s global water stewardship efforts, a role that includes oversight of WWF’s Water Risk Filter tool. Over the past 15 years, he has led numerous corporate partnerships on water, including several in the mining sector. He currently read more
Borja Blanco
Board Member - IDA
Mr. Borja Blanco has been involved in the water industry for more than 23 years, holding positions with leading water related companies worldwide. After working for a combined period of about 14 years in USFilter and Veolia Water, he managed read more
Nadja Kunz
Canada Research Chair in Mine Water Management and Stewardship - University of British Columbia
As a Canada research chair in mine water management and stewardship at the University of British Columbia, Dr Kunz develops mathematical models and decision-making frameworks to mitigate water-related risks in mining regions from diverse stakeholder perspectives, including companies, governments, communities read more
Sandy Fabritz-Whitney
Director of Water Strategy - Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc.
Gabriel Castillo
PhD Candidate - Mining Engineering - University of British Columbia
Gabriel’s area of speciality is climate risk management. His research focus is on the risks and opportunities that climate change and the adaptation could pose during mine closure and land restoration, with a watershed holistic perspective. He is a PhD read more
Lesley Warren
Director, Lassonde Institute of Mining - University of Toronto
Dr. Lesley Warren leads the Lassonde Institute of Mining at the University of Toronto as Managing Director and Chief Principal Investigator. She has an internationally recognized track record of integrated geochemical and microbiological investigation. As a leading expert, she has read more
Sylvie St Jean
Environment Manager - New Gold
Dr. St-Jean has over 20 years’ of experience in the mining space, with a focus on water management. Sylvie started her career as a research scientist for the Government of Canada, where she was involved in developing an alternative to read more
José N. De Piérola C
Manager of Water Resources - Southern Peru Copper Corp
Michael Warren
CEO - Earth Alive Clean Technologies
Michael Warren is Chief Executive Officer of Earth Alive Clean Technologies. He has been instrumental in securing the financing, personnel and registrations necessary to support the company’s operations in over a dozen countries. Michael is an innovator in regenerative business read more
Konstantin Volchek
Section Head, Water Treatment - Natural Resources Canada
Konstantin Volchek, Ph.D., P.Eng. leads engineering research on water management at CanmetMINING, Natural Resources Canada in Ottawa. He obtained Ph.D. in chemical technology from the Mendeleev University in Moscow, Russia. After completing his post-doctoral studies at Environment Canada, Konstantin worked read more
Shirley Neault
Manager, Environment and Systems - Hudbay Minerals
Shirley has over 30 years of service with Hudbay Minerals and is currently the Manager, Environment and Systems. Shirley has held a key, on-going role within the management system for the last 18 years. That role has a strong focus read more
Dr Vasiliki Ioannidou
Lecturer in Water Resources, School of Engineering and Built Environment - Birmingham City University
Dr Vasiliki (Vassia) Ioannidou graduated with a MEng in Surveying Engineering, specialising in Hydraulic Works, from Aristotle University of Thessaloniki (Greece) in 2012. She then continued her studies by completing an MSc in Water Resources, at Heriot-Watt University, graduating in read more
Carlo Patteri
Business Leader Industrial Water - Nanostone Water
Carlo is the Business Leader Industrial Water at Nanostone Water and has 20 years’ experience in water treatment and steam generation. He was formerly Business Development Director for Veolia Water Technologies in South East Asia and he holds a Masters read more
Lora Field
Team Leader - Ministry of Economic Development, Job Creation and Trade
Brad Smith
Principal Innovation - BHP