Speakers

Elaine Dorward-King

Company Name: Rio Tinto
Job Title: Global Head of Health, Safety and Environment

Session
	Case Study - Making the business case for health and safety and demonstrating ROI

Skills and experience: Elaine is Global head of Health, Safety and Environment for Rio Tinto, a position she has held since 2002. From 2000 - 2002, Elaine was Global Executive Environment, Health and Safety for Rio Tinto Borax. Prior to Borax, Elaine held a number of environmental roles of increasing responsibility in the Rio Tinto Group.

Prior to employment with Rio Tinto, Elaine managed the environmental science and chemistry function and led the ecological risk assessment effort at Ebasco Environmental, an environmental consulting firm. Immediately after graduate school, she spent six and one half years with Monsanto Agricultural Company, first providing analytical chemistry support for the animal biotechnology program and then working in regulatory registration for crop protection chemicals.

Elaine graduated from Colorado State University with a Ph.D. in analytical chemistry and from Maryville College in Tennessee with a B.A. magna cum laude in chemistry, with emphasis in biology and mathematics.

External appointments (current and recent):
President of the Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry (SETAC)
Chair and Panel member of Science Advisory Panel for the Center for Ecological Health, University of California, Davis
Board member of Scientific Counselors Executive Committee for the Office of Research and Development of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency
Board of Trustees for Toxicology Excellence for Risk Assessment (TERA)
Science Advisory Board for The Institute of Environmental and Human Health, Texas Tech University.

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