Ian is a Chemical Engineer with a Masters Degree in Public Health Engineering from the University of Cape
Town in South Africa and is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Queensland. He was, until March 2003,
CH2M HILL’s Technology Director for South East Asia, Australia, and New Zealand and has since started his
own business and trades as IBL Solutions. He has more than 30 years of experience in advanced wastewater and
reuse projects in Southern Africa, S E Asia and Australia. He has published widely on the application of advanced
reuse systems and the need to apply the concept of Total Water Management to all future water resource and
wastewater planning and is actively promoting this concept in Australia. He serves on the Research Advisory
Committee of the Australian Water Recycling Centre of Excellence (AWRCE).
