Vierah Hulley (Phd, Prscinat, Ces) Email & Phone Number

Houston, Tx, Us

London, Gb

Team Management and Environmental Sustainability: Manages a team of multidisciplinary contractors, providing oversight and guidance on sustainability analytics, environmental science, and environmental management best practices. End-to-end Project Management and Data Visualization: Defines project strategies and manages environmental risks, meeting clients’ financing/legal requirements for brownfield sites. This includes leveraging sustainable land use development, data analytics, visualization tools, and urbanization trends. Collaborative Leadership and Waste Management: Served as lead expert collaborator and delivered comprehensive assessment of national waste management policy implementation in South Africa, supplying regulators with blueprint of how and where to make technically sound and impactful legislative improvements.Stakeholder Engagement: Developed and implemented comprehensive stakeholder engagement strategies. This informed complete analysis of national waste management policy.Contract Management: Collaborated with colleagues to capture contracts for the organization.License to Operate: Secured funding and necessary permits for commercial developments, succeeding where previous company had been unable to deliver.ESG Knowledge Sharing: Penned and edited 5 books on environmental management and sustainability, raising company profile.Due Diligence: Ensure consistent application of ASTM E1527 and E1903 (Environmental Site Assessments) prior to real estate transactions.

Stakeholder Management: Built and grew relationships with regulators, partner consulting companies, clients, and other key stakeholders. UN SDGs, Climate Change Impacts and Food Security: Collaborated as technical lead on projects that built community resilience to climate change and enhanced food security in historically underserved communities in South Africa.Environmental Compliance: Led sustainability, climate change, and environmental awareness training programs for clients to meet international trade organization and regulatory compliance requirements.Environment, Health, and Safety (EHS) QA/QC: Partnered with colleagues to produce environmental management and occupational health and safety plans for new community health center; guided drafting team to meet all project, regulatory, and best practice requirements.Environmental Awareness: Mentored clients across multiple industries, which included guiding a client in the air traffic control industry on climate change, sustainability, and prospects of migrating to e-learning environmental awareness training platform. Regulatory Analysis: As key expert consultant for projects related to environmental regulations and policies, advised an international mining company on steps to drive engagement with regulators, enabling company to retain its license to operate.

Sandton, Gauteng, Za

Strategy and Influence: Led C-suite level project on proactively reducing legislative risks through key stakeholder engagement. Also advanced trade organization's interests in negotiations with regulators on site assessments and waste management. Disclosure Reporting: Collaborated with colleagues, monitored, verified company achievements, risks and communicated findings to internal and external stakeholders through disclosure reports (Integrated Reports (IIRC), UN Global Compact, CDP, DJSI). Leadership: Founded and coordinated cross-functional, multidisciplinary knowledge-sharing and technical Communities of Practice in sustainable resource use and efficiency, pollution prevention, management of legacy high-risk sites, waste management, circularity.ESG: Collaborated with other subject matter experts, developed corporate governance environmental and sustainability policies, strategies, metrics and performance standards.Environmental Footprint Reduction: Managed portfolio of high environmental risk sites valued at $500M, providing governance, technical support on footprint reduction and risk management.Knowledge-sharing: Managed outreach opportunities with stakeholders, advanced collaboration, mentoring efforts, actively solved complex environmental sustainability challenges.Integration: Designed workflows and methodologies to quantify environmental liabilities, translating and integrating complex technical, cross-country knowledge into financial risks.Mergers and Acquisitions (M&A): Collaborated with legal team, developed governance for due diligence portfolios for divestments, mergers, and acquisitions.Environmental Reports and Risk Management: Ensured terms of reference (ToRs) and reports integrated country, company, shareholder, DFI requirements and international best practice.Waste Management: Company-wide governance of general and hazardous wastes.

Sandton, Gauteng, Za

Site Assessments and Remediation: Secured financing and managed portfolio of complex, multi-contaminant brownfield environmental projects, including most extensive site assessments and remediation projects in South Africa.Data Analysis and Decision Making: Applied qualitative and quantitative sustainability tools determined best practical outcomes for project decisions.Team Management, QA/QC: Managed team of 50 cross-functional consultants, EPC contractors, in-house subject matter experts. Mergers & Acquisitions: Managed portfolio of social and environmental due diligence projects for mergers, acquisitions, divestments, identified and addressed risks before commercial property transactions.Governance: Authored, championed use of harmonized, corporate environmental guidelines and standards.Environmental Compliance and Risk Reduction: Delivered operational support to ensure environmental and social risk compliance, sound governance, and informed environmental improvement plans (EIPs), reducing reputational, compliance and environmental risks.Environmental Reporting: Managed multidisciplinary safety, health, environmental, social specialists, successfully obtained environmental authorizations for biodiesel facility.Environmental Authorizations: Managed multidisciplinary team to restore environment along 345km gas pipeline, ensured license to operate.International Corporation and influence: Developed waste management plan for gas-drilling legacy wastes for regulators in Mozambique (MICOA).Negotiations: Worked collaboratively with Sales and Marketing, contracting teams to negotiate risk mitigation/reduction with customers at over 100 sites.Integrated waste sites management: Partnered with operational and support teams on the assessments and remediation of industrial waste sites.Project/Program Management: Managed environmental project resources, risks, and timelines.External Communications: Supported Corporate Communications team, SHE Legal team

Bloemfontein, Free State, Za

Review: Ad hoc, external assessment of MSc dissertations in geohydrology (hydrogeology) at the University of the Free State

Za

Integrated Water Management: Ensured sustainable water use, balancing needs of operations with community needs in water-scarce environment, ensuring proactive risk management and continued social license to operate.Improve Resource Efficiency: Identified system bottlenecks and implemented improvement plans.Team Management: Managed field team.Corporate Social Responsibility: Managed water supply and infrastructure project for community resettlement projects (mine expansions), ensuring continued supply of safe drinking water to relocated communities.Stakeholder Engagement: Focal contact point with engaging stakeholders on water-resource management.Thematic Studies: Coordinated studies to improve water use efficiency reducing use by 10%, compliance with dam safety regulations.Water Infrastructure: Secured internal funding to overhaul drinking water infrastructure, ensuring safe water for all employees.Environmental management system (EMS): Continuous maintenance of EMS, undertaking internal risk assessments and auditing increased environmental compliance.Disclosure reporting: Focal contact point with engaging stakeholders on water-resource matters, including disclosure of monitoring results, achievements, and risks.

Rivonia, Gauteng, Za

Natural Resources Management: Developed and implemented regional watershed monitoring systems for national regulators, led to improved monitoring and management of watershed.Training and knowledge-sharing: Developed and presented training to other specialists and clients.Team Management: Developed and implemented performance improvement strategies and plans to promote continuous improvement, team productivity (measured in profits) increased by 20%.Client Management: Actively listened to customers and met needs such as improved performance standards for laboratories.QC/QA: Managed costs and assurance quality of Monitoring Unit.Research: Researched and Reported on "Naturally occurring contaminants in groundwater" for a national research organization.Environmental Monitoring and Reporting: Produced compliance reports for clients on surface water, groundwater, soil, dust, lux and noise; ensuring they maintain their licenses to operate.Permitting and Environmental Planning: Collaborated with other Subject Matter Experts to develop environmental safeguards for projects, ensuring that clients met their environmental permitting, or mineral exploration and mining permits. Closure and Post-Closure Planning: Developed environmental and social risk management safeguards for closure of mines, including post-closure requirements.

Pretoria, Gauteng, Za

Groundwater Targeting: Collaborated on large (4000 sq. km) multi-year groundwater targeting project; led to discovery of major water source for low-income communities.Teamwork: Applied field and quantitative tools and methodologies to produce soil chemistry maps as part of national soil mapping project Subject Matter Expert: acid mine drainage, water pollution, enviro-geochemistry, stable and radiogenic isotopes in environmental and geological applications, soil chemistry.Research and Reporting: Reported on contaminated sources apportionment using geochemistry, resulting in identification of sources of pollution in contaminated rivers and aquifers.

Phd, Geohydrology (Hydrogeology)

Professional Certificate, Sustainability Management

Certificate, Strategy And Sustainability

Msc, Geology

Bsc (Hons), Geology

Bsc, Geology, Chemistry

Ib Diploma, English, Philosophy, Chemistry, Biology, Italian, Mathematics