CDM Smith / Global PFAS Practice Lead
at Manchester Metropolitan University
Ian is a biochemist by training and works as a technical expert for assessment of contaminated land sites and PFAS decontamination. He has 30 years’ experience in the environmental impact of xenobiotics and has focused solely on PFAS management for the last 10 years in a global role, after first evaluating solutions to manage PFOS in 2005 after the Buncefield fire near London, then started developing PFOS destruction technologies whilst working on a PFAS project for Guernsey airport. He has written over 100 articles, academic publications, and book chapters on PFAS, including the 204-page chapter on PFAS in the Emerging Contaminants Handbook.
