Introduction

Professor David C Wilson is a senior and respected figure in waste and resources management in the UK and internationally. He is now working full-time as an independent consultant, specialising in high-level policy and strategy work. He is also Visiting Professor in Waste Management at Imperial College, London.

DCW has worked in waste and resources management since 1974. He began to work part-time as an independent consultant in July 2003 and has been full-time since October 2004. He has provided strategic advice to Defra (the English environment ministry) since earky 2004 on theirWaste and Resources Evidence Programme, aimed at providing sound evidence to underpin the development and implementation of waste and resources policy. He was appointed a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) in the UK’s 2006 New Years Honours List, ‘for services to waste management in the UK and Europe’.

From 1985-2004, DCW worked in the international consultancy company Environmental Resources Management (ERM), focusing on policy and planning for both solid and hazardous wastes around the world – e.g. involvement with the development and implementation of the Northern Ireland Waste Management Strategy from 1997 to 2006; and lead author for the World Bank’s definitive Strategic Planning Guide for Municipal Solid Waste Management, published in March 2001. His reputation as one of the leading international experts on waste management in developing economies was underscored by his being named as British Consultant of the Year in 1997, in recognition of his international waste work.

DCW spent the first 10 years of his career at the Harwell Laboratory, where, inter alia, he ran a hazardous waste research unit and wrote the first ‘Gas Works Report’ for the then UK Department of the Environment.

Prof David C Wilson receiving the 2004 J W Starkey Silver Medal from HRH Duke of Edinburgh at the annual awards ceremony of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health.

This xenical-online prestigious award was in recognition of ‘outstanding merit in the promotion of health’, for his work as author of the ‘significant and important’ –‘Training Resource Pack for Hazardous Wastes in Developing Economies’.

Awards and Prizes

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CIWM 2014-15 James Jackson Medal

DCW with co-authors Costas Velis, Andy Whiteman, Darragh Masterson and Recaredo Vilches, receiving the James Jackson Medal and their certificates from CIWM Chief Executive Steve Lee (centre), at the annual CIWM Sustainability and Resource Awards at the London Marriott on 5 November 2015.

ISWA Publication Award 2015

DCW with co-authors Ljiljana Rodic, Andy Whiteman, Costas Velis, Barbara Oelz, Joachim Stretz and Anne Scheinberg, receiving the Award from ISWA Scientific and Technical Committee Chair Antonis Mavropoulos (left), at the ISWA 2015 World Congress in Antwerp on Tuesday 08 September.

WM&R Best Paper award 2015

DCW and his co-authors Ljiljana Rodic, Costas Velis and Anne Scheinberg receiving the inaugural Best Paper award at the ISWA 2015 World Congress from Professor Agamuthu, editor of the peer-reviewed journal Waste Management & Research (WM&R) and the upcycling sculptor Evy Puelinckx

Professor David C Wilson receiving his MBE

Professor David C Wilson receiving his insignia as a Member of the Order of the British Empire (MBE) form the Prince of Wales, at an Investiture at Buckingham Palace on 24 February 2006. Photo: BCA Films

Telford Premium Award

DCW, Costas Velis and Ljiljana Rodic were presented with their Telford Premium Award at the Institution of Civil Engineers Publication Awards ceremony on 17 October 2014. Their paper Integrated sustainable waste management in developing countries was one of the four best papers published in 2013 across all 27 peer-reviewed ICE journals. The paper is now free to download . DCW will present the paper in the Thomas Telford Prestige Paper Series of public lectures in London on 16 March 2015.

ISWA Publication Award 2013

The International Solid Waste Association’s ISWA Publication Award 2013 was presented to DCW and Dr Costas Velis at the ISWA World Congress in Vienna on 7 October 2013. The award for the best waste and resource management publication in 2012 was for their open-access paper: An analytical framework and tool (‘InteRa’) for integrating the informal recycling sector in waste and resource management systems in developing countries

Waste Regulation Award 2012

The UK Chartered Institution of Wastes Management’s Waste Regulation Award 2012, for the best paper published in 2011,has been won by Rachel Cahill, Prof David C Wilson and Prof Sue Grimes. The winning paper was ‘Extended producer responsibility for packaging wastes and WEEE – a comparison of implementation and the role of local authorities across Europe’, published in Waste Management & Research. DCW received the award on behalf of the authors at the CIWM Awards 2012 ceremony at the London Marriott Grosvenor Square on 8 November, from the CIWM President John Skidmore and TV presenter Julia Bradbury.

James Jackson Award 2010

The UK Chartered Institution of Wastes Management’s James Jackson Award 2010 for Best Paper has been won by Prof David C Wilson. The winning paper was Household waste prevention – a review of evidence, published in Waste Management & Research, and resulting from a major evidence review which DCW managed for Defra. Shown from left are his co-authors Sara Giorgi, Jayne Cox, Veronica Sharp, Derek Greedy (CIWM President), Kathie Tiffany (Kit Strange’s daughter), David C. Wilson and Nick Blakey. The award ceremony on 18 October 2011 was tinged with sadness, because one of the co-authors, Kit Strange, died suddenly in August, 2011. DCW and Nick Blakey had previously won the 2007 award.

The winners of the James Jackson Award for best paper in 2007

Professor David C Wilson, with co-authors Nadine Smith and Nick Blakey of the Waste Evidence Branch in Defra, with the James Jackson Award for the best paper in 2007, at the CIWM Professional Awards Ceremony on 16 May 2008. They won the award for their paper Using research-based knowledge to underpin waste and resouces policy, which was published in a special issue of the ISWA peer-reviewed journal Waste Management & Research in June 2007, on Driving waste management towards sustainable development. The authors commented: ‘We are particularly pleased to have won this award with a policy rather than a technical paper. We hope that it will help to raise the profile of the need to provide sound evidence and to use that effectively in the policy process.’

2004 J.W. Starkey Silver Medal

Prof David C Wilson receiving the 2004 J W Starkey Silver Medal from HRH Duke of Edinburgh at the annual awards ceremony of the Royal Society for the Promotion of Health. This prestigious award was in recognition of ‘outstanding merit in the promotion of health’, for his work as author of the ‘significant and important’ –‘Training Resource Pack for Hazardous Wastes in Developing Economies’.