Speakers - Plastics and the Circular Economy

Ian Ellison, Jaguar Land Rover

Ian leads a team of engineers with the aim of reducing the environmental impacts of JLR products by looking at their whole life cycle impacts and seeking improvement opportunities in such areas as closed loop material flows, resource efficiency, process efficiency and value chain design.
 
Ian’s previous roles include Corporate Responsibility Director, Strategic Change Director and Head of Information Systems and Strategy, in international businesses spanning electronics, software, consulting, aerospace and defence sectors.
 
Holding an Engineering degree and a Master’s degree in Sustainability from Cambridge University, where he is also a CISL tutor and Senior Associate, Ian’s professional qualifications include Chartered Engineer, Chartered Management Accountant and Chartered IT Professional. 

Adrian Griffiths,  Recycling Technologies

Adrian is an enthusiastic supporter of the “waste to resource” transformation, with a huge passion to make a difference to the story of plastic. Being a successful entrepreneur he formed Recycling Technologies with a mission to make all plastic recyclable. 
He studied mechanical engineering at Imperial, spent many years within the automotive, then aerospace sectors. This mass production experience lead to a novel approach to the problem of plastic with the solution being a mass producible machine that can be located in waste centres around the globe returning all plastics to an oil suitable as the feedstock for making more plastic. With over twenty years experience as a management consultant, he appreciates the need for such ventures to make sound commercial sense as well as providing an environmental service.

Richard Howard, Policy Exchange

Richard Howard joined Policy Exchange in 2014 as Head of the Environment & Energy Unit. He has since produced a number of influential reports on topics including: energy policy and regulation, new energy technologies, fuel poverty, air quality, waste management, and industrial strategy. He recently produced a major report arguing that following Brexit, the UK should develop its own approach to waste policy rather than adopting the EU’s proposed Circular Economy Package. Richard has more than 10 years’ experience in energy and environmental policy, economics, and government affairs. His last role was as Chief Economist at The Crown Estate, and prior to that he worked as an economic consultant.

Susan Jay, Programme Area Manager, Wales Sustainable Resource Management Programme, WRAP Cymru
 

Susan is responsible for delivering WRAP Cymru’s sustainable resource management programme. 
 
Susan has many years’ experience delivering environmental business support, as well as experience in knowledge transfer for waste technologies. 
 
She has lectured on environmental management, air and water pollution. Susan has an MBA, Post Graduate Diploma in Sustainability, Planning & Environmental Policy, and a BSc in Environmental Science 1st class (Hons)

Neil Rogers, Procter & Gamble

Neil Rogers is an Award Winning, Package Development Technologist with The Procter & Gamble Company, with over 23 years’ experience of business-building packaging innovation. He is P&G’s expert in Flexible Packaging, Rigid Liquid Packing, and Labeling, and has extensive experience in Sustainability, Patent Development, Connect & Development, Global Procurement, Packing Line Creation, and Technical Training.

His currently responsibilities include defining and delivering P&G’s Global Sustainability Effort for Flexible Packaging. He is the Brand Owner Representative on the Steering Team of the CEFLEX Consortium (Circular Economy for Flexible Packaging). Neil will present and discuss P&G’s Sustainability Effort with specific focus on Flexible Packaging.