Mr Robert P Spencer CGeog
Employer Name
Environmental Industries Commission
Biography
Robert is Business Line Director - Sustainability at URS Infrastructure & Environment UK Limited. He has a BA in Geography from the University of Southampton and an MSc in Land Use and Forestry from the University of Oxford. Robert specialises in integrated resource management and has over 12 years experience managing complex, multi-disciplinary projects and programmes in the UK and overseas. These have included several programmes for the UK's Department for International Development (DFID) in Central America, Nigeria and China where Robert has provided technical advice on state institutions and reform, environment policy, community-based management, capacity development and rural livelihoods and civil society partnership building. In the last three years Robert has involved himself in the emerging field of industrial ecology and the practical application of that discipline through the UK's National Industrial Symbiosis Programme (NISP). He is currently Programme Coordinator for NISP in South East England.