Speaker profile
Jonathan Atkinson
Having spent most of his youth in places like Africa, Chile and Fiji, after his degree in Environmental Sciences at Plymouth and postgrad Diploma in Soil and Water Engineering at Silsoe, Jonathan continued his travels by doing Voluntary Service Overseas in the Philippines and two short stints on soil projects in Papua New Guinea and Burkina Faso. He finally got his first permanent job at 30 with the KCC geotechnical group in the UK.
After two years he moved to Pollution Control section in the KCC Waste Disposal Dept, which evolved into the Waste Regulation Authority. He joined the Environment Agency when it was formed in 1996. He has worked on risk assessment of developed closed landfill sites, landfill engineering and environmental control enforcement on permitted sites, and a variety of contaminated land projects. He has managed a team of specialists and been a national technical specialist advisor on a number of projects related to soil remediation and waste management as a regulator.