PROF. DR. PETER BRIMBLECOMBE

Prof. Dr. Peter Brimblecombe is Chair Professor of Atmospheric Environment at the School of Energy and Environment at the City University of Hong Kong and an emeritus professor at the School of Environmental Sciences of the University of East Anglia, U.K., and has served as a senior editor of Atmospheric Environment since 1990. Prof Peter remains interested in atmospheric chemistry and currently works on the thermodynamics of aerosols, particularly water-soluble organic substances.  His studies of long-term changes in urban air pollution and its effects on health and building damage are also important: the historical aspects of the subject resulted in his book, The Big Smoke. This book encouraged an interest in the relationship between air pollution and architecture, literature and even cinema.  His research on material damage by air pollutants has not been restricted to outdoor environments.  He has worked on the museum atmosphere and has a continuing interest in the process of damage to cultural materials by air pollutants.  He has increasingly co-operated with conservators in the National Trust, English Heritage and Historic Royal Palaces on management issues. He focuses on the accumulation of dust but has also become interested in the effect of climate change on heritage, with recent work focussing on the changing potential for insect damage.  His current interest in air pollution relates to human exposure in the urban environment and air pollution policy, especially in China and Hong Kong. The practical context of his research work means that he has frequently been an invited speaker at conferences, interviewed by the media and taught advanced courses.  In 2005 he received a gold medal from the Italian Chemical Society for his contributions in environmental and heritage chemistry.

PROFESSOR DR. JAMAL HISHAM HASHIM

Title: Climate Change and Health in Malaysia: Impacts, Mitigation and Adaptation.

Professor Dr. Jamal Hisham Hashim is a visiting professor of environmental health at the University of Selangor (Unisel) and Universitas Diponegoro (UNDIP). He is also a director of Provenue Corporation, an environmental consulting firm specialising in health risk and impact assessment. He was formerly a visiting professor and research fellow at UNU-IIGH and Malaysia’s first appointed professor of environmental at the National University of Malaysia (UKM). Prof. Jamal obtained his PhD in environmental health from the University of Michigan. He has been teaching, conducting research and consultancy in environmental and occupational health at UKM and UNU for the past 35 years. His research interests are mainly on the health effects of heavy metals, pesticides, solvents, air pollution, risk assessment, and recently, climate change. He has been the principal and co-investigator of 19 research projects and has over 360 publications and presentations to date, including 87 full articles in refereed and indexed journals. In 2004, he became the first Professor of Environmental Health in Malaysia when he was appointed to that position by UKM. He has been engaged as an environmental health consultant in over 60 local and overseas projects, primarily in the area of environmental health impact and risk assessment. He has also been consulted by the World Health Organization, International Atomic Energy Agency, Risk Science Institute and the Institute of Medicine in the U.S., the governments of Malaysia, Cambodia, Indonesia and Saudi Arabia on various environmental health issues. He is a registered environmental impact assessment consultant with the Department of Environment, Malaysia, a member of the Chartered Institute of Environmental Health in the U.K., an honorary fellow of the Academy of Occupational and Environmental Medicine Malaysia and a council member of the Asia Chapter of the International Society for Environmental Epidemiology.

GLYNDA BATHAN-BATERINA

Title: Clean Air and a Safe Climate for All

Glynda Bathan-Baterina is the Deputy Executive Director of Clean Air Asia. She is a lawyer with 20 years of experience in policy and program development for clean air, sustainable transport, industrial emissions control, and climate change mitigation. She was among the lawyers who helped draft the 1999 Philippine Clean Air Act Implementing Rules and Regulations. She led the Asia Clean Fuels and Vehicles program which resulted in national policies and roadmaps for cleaner fuels and vehicles notably for Vietnam and the Philippines. She has testified and participated in deliberations in the Philippine Congress on measures including for exempting electric vehicles from excise taxes, strengthening vehicle standards and fuel specifications, improving vehicle inspection and maintenance, and implementing the Clean Air Act. She has been a speaker in various international, regional, and national conferences on air pollution, sustainable transport, and climate change mitigation. In 2020, she was named one of the Remarkable Women in Transport by the Transformative Urban Mobility Initiative (TUMI). Glynda holds a Master’s in Environmental Management degree from the Ateneo de Manila University and University of San Francisco; and a Bachelor of Laws from the University of the Philippines. An advance open water scubadiver, she shares her passion for the environment with her husband, Provincial Board Member of Ilocos Sur, Christopher “Topeng” Baterina.

MRS. MASHITAH BINTI DARUS

Mrs. Mashitah Binti Darus is Director of the Air Division in the Department of Environment, Malaysia. 28 years working experience with the Department of Environment (DOE), Malaysia ranging from EIA project evaluation and enforcement, environmental monitoring and pollution control evaluation, trainings (Environment Institute of Malaysia-EiMAS), high way planning (seconded to Ministry of Works) and the recent experience are in haze & air quality management, control of open burning, motor vehicles and industrial emissions. Also involve in negotiation for Montreal Protocol in protection of ozone layer and the chairperson of GHG Inventory for waste sector under the National Climate Change framework coordinated by the Ministry of Energy, Science, Technology, Environment and Climate Change (MESTECC).

PROFESSOR DR. NENG-HUEI

Professor Dr. Neng-Huei (George) Lin holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Atmospheric Sciences from the North Carolina State University and B.S. from the National Taiwan University. He is a Professor in the Department of Atmospheric Sciences and Department of Chemistry at the National Central University (NCU), Taiwan. Prof. Lin served as the Department Chairperson in 2002-2005 and the Dean for the Office of Student Affairs in 2006-2009 at the NCU. Prof. Lin’s research interests include atmospheric baseline measurements, aerosol-cloud-radiation interaction, cloud chemistry and physics, precipitation chemistry, long-range transport processes of acid pollutants, Asian dust and biomass burning. Prof. Lin is the coordinator of the Taiwan Acid Rain Network. Under his leadership, the Lulin Atmospheric Background Station (LABS; 2862 m MSL) in central Taiwan has been developed since 2006 and included in several international networks. He has also been heavily involved in many international field campaigns, such as ACE-Asia, ABC/EAREX, BASE-ASIA and 7-SEAS. Prof. Lin is the Editor-in-Chief of Aerosol and Air Quality Research and serves as the Editorial Board of Atmospheric Environment and Asian Journal of Atmospheric Environment. He has been serving as the member of many technical and advisory committees on national and ministry levels. He served as the President of Taiwan Association for Aerosol Research (TAAR) in 2009-2011, and now is the Fellow and Honorary President of TAAR.

PROFESSOR DR. MOHD TALIB LATIF

Professor Dr. Mohd Talib Latif is a professor of Atmospheric Chemistry and Air Pollution at the Department of Earth Sciences and Environment, Faculty of Science and Technology, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia; and a fellow of Malaysian Academy of Science (FASc). He completed his BSc in Chemistry and MSc in Environmental Chemistry (Air Pollution) at Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia and my PhD at the School of Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, United Kingdom. He was a Deputy Dean (Postgraduate) at Faculty of Science and Technology (2018-2020), Deputy Director at Institute for Environment and Development (LESTARI, UKM) (2015-2018), Head Centre for Tropical Climate Change System (IKLIM), Institute for Climate Change (2013-2014) and Head of Environmental Science Programme (2010-2013). His main research work includes the composition of atmospheric aerosols from various backgrounds, including sea surface microlayer (SML). He also works on the composition of gases, particularly surface ozone and volatile organic compounds (VOCs) in the atmosphere. His research group has been working closely with government agencies in Malaysia, such as the Malaysian Department of Environment (DOE) and the Malaysian Meteorological Department (Met Malaysia). At the international level, he is actively involved with the research community within the Asian continent through International Global on Atmospheric Chemistry- Monsoon Asia (IGAC-Mango) project. In 2018, he was appointed as one of the scientific steering committees for the Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS). In 2018 also, he had received the Top Research Scientist Malaysian (TRSM) Award from Academy Science Malaysia for his research and publication.

MR. TSAI KOH FEN 

Mr. Tsai Koh Fen joined Natural Resources and Environment Board, Sarawak (NREB) in 1997 as ‘Pegawai Kawalan Alam Sekitar’ (Environmental Control Officer). Currently, he is the Head of Monitoring and Reporting Section of The Natural Resources and Environment Board of Sarawak or (NREB) where he has been working since 1997. Before being head of the Monitoring and Reporting section, Mr Tsai was formerly the Head of the Environmental Regulation Section and also the Head of the Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Section of NREB. Having a vast experience working in the Environmental Impact Assessment or EIA processes, and his involvement in EIA evaluation duties and environmental enforcement work, the proud holder of master’s degree in Master of Environmental Science in Land Use and Water Resource Management from SLUSE, UNIMAS and a bachelor’s degree in environmental Sc, from University Putra Malaysia has also worked closely in air and river related compliance monitoring duties, and also environmental auditing. Other than that, Mr Tsai is also involved in doing environment inspection and ambient environment quality monitoring duties, that is also related to air and river statuses.