Dr David RJ Jones – BSc (Hons), PhD, MRACI CChem, AAusIMMPrincipal: DR Jones Environmental ExcellenceIndustry Fellow Sustainable Minerals Institute University of QueenslandDr Jones has Honours and PhD degrees in Inorganic Chemistry. He has 40 years’ experience in the environmental assessment and management of water quality issues across the gold and base metal mining and energy (coal, coal seam and shale gas, uranium) sectors in Australia and internationally. During this period he has held senior positions in research (CSIRO), industry (Rio Tinto), and government (Commonwealth Department of the Environment), and is now the Principal of his own consulting business (DR Jones Environmental Excellence). This range of experience enables him to bring a broad perspective to often controversial environmental issues.His research and consulting activities have focused on identifying the geochemical and biological processes controlling the release and subsequent transport and fate of inorganic contaminants from the mining, minerals processing and related industries. A particular strength is a systems approach that integrates the physical, chemical and biological components of environmental problems. He has led and participated in numerous investigations of the impacts of mining and energy production on water quality and health of aquatic ecosystems, in devising and implementing treatment systems for minewaters, in developing decommissioning and closure plans and providing technical peer review of documents and reports produced by others. Dr Jones has authored and co-authored in excess of 80 peer reviewed journal and conference papers and book chapters. He is also the lead or co-author for over 110 major consulting reports (titles available on request). His professional standing is recognised by regular invitations to participate in mining environment-related conference organising committees, and by his membership of national and international steering committees oversighting the production of best practice guidance for mining environmental management.