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Luncheon

What: DENR x GHD Luncheon
Speaker: Usec. Marilou Erni
Chief of Staff and Supervising Undersecretary for Strategic Communications
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)

Speaker: Usec. Jonas Leones
Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and International Affairs
Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR)

Speaker: Mr. Anjan Kundu
Senior Technical Director, Business Group Leader – Tailings and Mine Waste
GHD

Time: Registration: 10.30AM | Starts: 11.30AM sharp – 3:00PM
Date: Friday | 24 May 2023
Venue: Seda Hotel BGC, Taguig City
Cost: Php 2,900 advance booking (paid at least 5 days before the event) | Php 3,100 at the door
(Includes informative talk, a 3-course meal, 2 complimentary drinks and networking)

Topic: Asia Pacific Ministerial Meeting on Disaster Resilience

Marilou Erni
Undersecretary for Strategic Communications and Chief of Staff
Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources

Marilou G. Erni is the current Chief of Staff and Supervising Undersecretary for Strategic Communications of the Department of Environment and Natural Resources, the Philippine government agency primarily responsible for the conservation, management, development, and proper use of the country’s environment and natural resources.

Prior to this, she was the Executive Director of the National Resilience Council (NRC), a science and technology-based public private partnership for climate and disaster resilience in the Philippines, aimed at the implementation of the Sendai Framework for Disaster Risk Reduction, the Sustainable Development Goals and the Paris Climate Agreement.

Undersecretary Erni also served as the Executive Director of the Philippine Disaster Resilience Foundation (PDRF), General Manager and Executive Director of Petron Foundation, Public Relations Manager and Head of Training & Organization Development in Petron Corporation.

Topic: Project Transform

Jonas Leones
Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and International Affairs
Dept. of Environment and Natural Resources

Atty. Jonas R. Leones has over 33 years of experience in various technical, legal, and managerial positions with the Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR).

Currently, he serves as Undersecretary for Policy, Planning and International Affairs, with the rank of Career Executive Service Officer (CESO), Rank I. He supervises the Manila Bay Coordinating Office (MBCO) and oversees the rehabilitation of Manila Bay, which is one of the Department’s priority programs.

Additionally, he is the supervising Undersecretary for the Forest Management Bureau (FMB). He is also the designated Permanent Alternate of the DENR Secretary, sitting as the Chairperson, to the Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) Board of Directors. Also, he serves as the Presiding Officer of the Pollution Adjudication Board. In previous years, he served the same Board from August 2005 to July 2013 as its Board Secretary and Legal Counsel, in a concurrent capacity.

Apart from this, he is a Faculty Member, serving as a part-time Professor, at the New Era University College of Law.

He coordinates all international environmental concerns, including the implementation of international environmental treaties and the Philippines’ participation in international environmental bodies and conferences (see www.denr.gov.ph). His office published the books, “International Agreements on Environment and Natural Resources” and “Philippine International Commitments on Environment and Natural Resources: Roadmaps and Updates,” respectively launched in 2016 and 2020.

Atty. Leones holds a Master’s Degree in Public Management from the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy of the National University of Singapore and the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA. He obtained his Bachelor of Laws Degree from the New Era University, Quezon City in 2005 and passed the Philippine Bar Examination in 2006. As a full scholar, he also finished his Master’s degree in Environmental Science from the University of the Philippines – Los Baños, Laguna in 2000, and his Bachelor of Science in Forestry degree in 1990. He placed No. 8 in the Forester’s Board Examination in 1991.

He is the recipient of the following awards: (1) Outstanding Professional in the Field of Forestry by the Professional Regulation Commission in 2016; (2) Outstanding Alumnus of the University of the Philippines Los Baños School of Environmental Science and Management in 2016; and (3) Outstanding Alumnus, University of the Philippines Los Baños Alumni Association in 2016.

Topic: Reshaping the future of tailings in the Philippines

Mr. Anjan Kundu
Senior Technical Director, Business Group Leader – Tailings and Mine Waste

Anjan has over 33 years of civil engineering experience in tailings dam design, operation, closure, tailings management and water engineering. He has worked for major Dams (Water and Tailings), Hydropower and Water supply projects in Australia, USA, Canada, Laos, India, Malaysia, Kenya, Ethiopia, Papua New Guinea, Nigeria, and France. He has participated in the strategy development, planning, design and review, construction planning and quality assurance, project governance and compliance of multiple projects from concept to closure. These projects include in-pit and above ground tailings and waste storage facilities. Anjan has participated in several gold, silver, ash, bauxites, copper, manganese, coal, lead, zinc and iron ore tailings facility design, construction, operations, and governance. Some of this storage facilities are over 150m high.

Anjan also has the unique experience of working with the “Owner organization” and the “Engineering Consultant” to understand both perspectives. Anjan is involved in many Tailings projects undertaken by ICMM members Rio Tinto, BHP, Glencore, South32, Newmont apart from non-ICMM members e.g., Phubia Mining, US Steel. Peabody. Anjan’s has strong skillset in advising mining organisations in innovative ways in stewardship, peer review, internal audit, dam safety review (DSR) and risk assessment (including ALARP).

Currently, Anjan is also working on advising many organisations (mostly ICMM members) on their internal compliance process with GISTM (Global Industry Standard on Tailings Management).