Speaker profile
Lee Bell
Lee Bell is the Mercury and POPs Policy Advisor for the International Pollution Elimination Network (IPEN) and Senior Researcher for National Toxics Network (Australia) and has over twenty years of experience in research and analysis of industrial pollution, hazardous waste, incineration, contaminated sites and persistent organic pollutants. He has authored a range of reports and articles on the trade and impact of mercury, POPs and plastic waste on the environment and human health. Mr Bell is a member of the Stockholm Convention BAT BEP and Dioxin Toolkit Expert Group and has just co-authored comprehensive guidance on BAT BEP for POPs contaminated sites management for the Stockholm Convention. Mr Bell, who is based in Australia, has also co-authored a range of publications on the contamination impacts of POPs in e-waste and treatment technologies to destroy them.