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Keynote Speakers John Feehan is a senior lecturer in the School of Biology and Environmental Science at University College Dublin. He is a recipient of the Annual Environmental Merit Award of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management, and of a special award from Bord na Móna for his work in communicating environmental values. He is a regular contributor on matters relating to environmental heritage to Scéal na Móna, Bord na Móna’s in-house magazine. He has researched and written extensively on many facets of Ireland’s environmental heritage and history, co-authoring the definitive textbook on Ireland's peatlands. His recent History of Farming in Ireland has been widely acclaimed.
Edward Maltby is Professor of Wetland Science, Water & Ecosystem Management and is Director of the Institute for Sustainable Water, Integrated Management and Ecosystem Research (S.W.I.M.M.E.R.) at the University of Liverpool. He is former chair of the I.U.C.N. Wetlands Scientific Advisory Committee and Commission on Ecosystem Management. He has played a key role in elaboration of the Wise Use of wetlands concept for the Ramsar Convention and of the Ecosystem Approach and its application to policy. His primary research interests are in wetlands, especially peatlands, integrated catchment management and the development of practical tools to bridge the gaps between science and policy. His international work includes S.E. Asia, especially Vietnam, Iraq, Iran, Kuwait and the Falklands as well as the United States and Europe. Key research outputs in the field of peatlands include the effects of fire, the role of human activities in transforming peat soils and the development of guidelines for integrated planning and management of tropical lowland peatlands. Publication of ‘Waterlogged Wealth’ did much to stimulate the level of current interest in wetlands.
David Bellamy is Honorary Professor of Adult and Continuing Education at the University of Durham, Special Professor of Geography at the University of Nottingham and Honorary Professor at the University of Central Queensland. He is President, Vice-President or Trustee of a large number of conservation foundations, associations and trusts in Britain, Ireland, Australia and The Emirates. He is an international consultant, and is the author of 44 books and the writer and presenter of some 400 television programmes on botany, ecology and the environment. He is the recipient of numerous prestigious awards including the O.B.E., the Dutch Order of the Golden Ark and the U.N.E.P. Global 500 Award. He is the originator, along with David Shreeve, of The Conservation Foundation and The Ford European Conservation Awards.
Matti Hilli has been Managing Director and CEO of Vapo Oy since June 2001. Vapo Oy is one of the biggest biofuel producers in the world, with a turnover of some €601 million per year. Before his current appointment he worked for several years as Managing Director of Kekkilä Oy and as director of different business operations at Vapo. He was also Managing Director of Turveruukki Oy. Mr Hilli is the Chairman of the Board of the Association of Finnish Peat Industry and the Chairman of E.P.A.G.M.A. (European Peat and Growing Media Association). He is also Member of the Board of the Finnish Forest Industries Federation.
Keynote speaker at Tropical Peatlands special session Bambang Setiadi is Deputy to the Indonesian Minister of Research and Technology. He is also President of the Indonesian Peat Association, which is the Indonesian National Committee of the I.P.S. He has had a deep involvement in tropical peatland throughout his career, obtaining a Ph.D. from the prestigious Gadjah Mada University on the effect of volcanic ash as an ameliorant on crop growth in peat soil. He is also President of the Indonesian Natural Resources Accounting and Environment Society. He is based at the Indonesian Agency for the Assessment and Implementation of Technology (BPPT) where he has been responsible for directing many activities on peatland in Indonesia, especially as Chairman of the Ad Hoc team responsible for identifying ways to rehabilitate the former Mega Rice Project area that has been damaged as a result of inappropriate land use change and fire. Responsibilities: research and management of research and technology development on tropical peatland ecology, agriculture and forestry as well as peatland restoration He received two special awards from the President of the Republic Indonesia as the pioneer of peat research and development in Indonesia. Publications: About 40 scientific articles, books and general articles between 1979 and 2006.
Keynote speaker at Commission VI special session Gerd Lüttig is a geologist and retired Professor at Erlangen-Nuremberg University. He is a former Vice-President of the German Geological Survey, was a founder of the German Peat Society (DGMT) and is a long-standing Honorary Member of the I.P.S. He has been active in the I.P.S. principally on questions relating to peat therapy and is a former Chairman of Commission VI. He has been active in many technical development projects dealing with mineral resources questions, including those relating to environmental issues around the world, and has also held functions in international associations including U.N.E.S.C.O. and U.N.E.P. He has, in addition, been active in editorial and educational tasks.
Keynote speaker at Ecohydrology special session Wayne Skaggs is William Neal Reynolds Distinguished University Professor of drainage and agricultural water management in Biological and Agricultural Engineering at North Carolina State University. He has taught and conducted research in drainage and subsurface water management engineering for the past 37 years. His work includes the development of the water management model, DRAINMOD, which is widely used by consulting engineers, researchers and government agencies to describe the performance of drainage systems, including the effect of drainage design on the movement and fate of nitrates, salts and other solutes in the soil profile. DRAINMOD is being applied internationally to design and manage drainage and related water management systems as well as in modelling the hydrology of wetlands. |
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Programme Outline 
John Feehan
Edward Maltby
David Bellamy
Matti Hilli
Bambang Setiadi
Gerd Lüttig 
Wayne Skaggs