John Haggett

Partner, BDO

John is a Partner at BDO and leads BDO’s Waste & Environmental Infrastructure team. He has a background advising on large scale, complex infrastructure projects and is passionate about delivering assets that can help drive the transition towards a circular economy. He has advised public and private sector clients on Energy from Waste projects across Victoria, Queensland, and Western Australia as well as Canada and New Zealand.

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Kate Dryden

Partner, Sphere Infrastructure Partners

Kate is a Partner at Sphere Infrastructure Partners, a boutique advisory firm that she co-founded in 2018.  Sphere’s service offering focuses on environmental infrastructure businesses and projects, assisting investors, contractors, industry and government to drive a more sustainable future.  Kate regularly works with local councils and the private sector on resource recovery projects.  Prior to founding Sphere, Kate worked in legal and commercial roles for an environmental services multinational operating across Australia and New Zealand and a carbon project developer in Washington DC. She also practised as a lawyer at top tier law firms in Sydney in environmental and climate change law.

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Ronan Cullen

Director & National Waste Leader, Talis Consultants

Ronan is a Director and National Waste Leader for Talis Consultants, leading the team of over 40 waste consultancy across Australia.  Ronan has over 20 years of international experience consulting to the waste industry including Resource Recovery, Procurement and the delivery of all types of recycling and waste infrastructure.  Ronan and the Talis team have been instrumental in leading large resource recovery procurement projects for local governments including projects that delivered the foundation feedstocks for the two EfW facilities within Perth.

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