Two more speakers confirmed for Northern Air Quality Conference
We are delighted to announce two new speakers who will be presenting at the 2025 Northern Air Quality Conference on 25th March 2025.
Jon Burke MIEMA CEnv
For six years, Jon was Councillor for the London Borough of Hackney, ending up as Cabinet Member for Energy, Sustainability, Transport and Public Realm. He delivered the largest urban tree planting programme in the UK, the UK’s largest number of Low Traffic Neighbourhoods and School Streets, diverted 6,000 tonnes of black bag waste from incineration annually, adopted the World Health Organisation’s guidelines for particulate matter pollution, and delivered the UK’s first local authority green screen technical specification for deployment at pollution hotspots.
Prior to his time as a Hackney Cabinet Member, Jon spent almost a decade at the Greater London Authority advising Assembly Members on urban policy.
He is now Gloucester City Council Climate Change and Decarbonisation Lead, Climate Leadership Gloucestershire’s lead officer for climate change adaptation, and holds advisory roles with Climate Emergency U.K and Create Streets.
Katie Williams
Katie Williams is the Delivery Manager for the Air Quality and Aerosol Metrology Group at the National Physical Laboratory. Katie has 7 years’ experience working with air quality networks and is currently responsible for managing two large Air Quality network contracts for Defra and the Environment Agency – the UK Heavy Metals Network and the UK Particle Counting and Numbers & Black Carbon Network.
In 2024, Katie and the NPL AQ Networks team won the Royal Society of Chemistry Technical Excellence Prize, for outstanding application of knowledge and teamwork to produce 20 years of robust, high-quality air pollutant data for three of the UK’s air quality networks, advancing science, informing policy makers, and protecting the health of the public.
Jon and Katie join the first two speakers to be confirmed, Professor Greg Marsden, Professor of Transport Governance at the Institute for Transport Studies at the University of Leeds, and Liz Godfrey, the Greater Manchester Coordinator for Mums for Lungs.
Super Early Bird tickets are currently available but are selling fast. The offer will expire automatically, when the limited number available have been sold.
