Our Jury
The Bioenergy Innovation Awards the Jury will be comprised of:
Heather Bone (Chair)
Heather Bone is the Managing Director of RebusJ Sustainability. She was previously the CEO of the Biofuels Association of Australia, working closely with Bioenergy Australia. Heather has been the Chair of Australia’s mirror committee for the development of ISO Sustainability Criteria for Bioenergy during which time she has been a strong advocate for closing the gap between industry and researchers across all forms of alternative fuels.
Heather has a LLB (Hons) in Sustainable Development and Corporate Governance and has worked for 20 years in environmental sustainable development law, commercial, business development and marketing roles in mines and energy, transport and logistics in Australia and internationally. She has worked extensively with numerous government departments, industry associations, scientific bodies, OEMs and international organisations.
Inge Johansson
Inge Johansson has been working with energy and waste related questions since 2002. It begun with a position as an energy consultant in a small specialised firm, mostly working with boiler technology/boiler calculations and efficient energy use within the forest industry. He continued to more waste related issues in 2006 when he took the position as a technical adviser in EfW at Avfall Sverige- the Swedish Waste management association. Despite the title the area covered by the position included non- technical aspects such as policy and legislation, sustainability issues and putting together relevant educations for the members of the association. Since 2012 he is working as a researcher in a group called “Resources from Waste” at RISE Research Institutes of Sweden. His main focus has been thermal waste to energy, and especially fuel and ash related questions but has also been involved in a number of wider projects including waste mapping and waste minimisation. Before the position as a researcher at RISE he was a technical adviser at the Swedish waste management association working with most aspects of Energy from waste (policy, legislation, technology, environmental aspects, educations). He has been involved in different international networks (CEWEP, ISWA, IEA Bioenergy, ISO) throughout the years and as of 2016 he is the convenor of ISO TC300 WG 2- Solid recovered fuels – Specifications and classes and also from the same year leading the work of IEA Bioenergy Task 36 – Material and energy valorisation of waste in a circular economy.
Bernadette McCabe
A/Prof Bernadette McCabe is a principal scientist with NCEA at USQ and is National Team Leader for the International Energy Agency Bioenergy program Task 37: Energy from Biogas. Bernadette has a background in rumen microbiology and has 20 years’ experience as an academic and researcher. Her research interest in energy capture, resource recovery of waste and biofertilisers has attracted over $2.9M in nationally competitive grants since 2010. Her research has been applied to the livestock and cropping sectors (both on and off farm) and water utilities. Bernadette extends her science communication beyond high impact journals by regularly contributing to media outlets to boost public awareness of bioenergy and has promoted bioenergy in schools since 2007 through CSIRO’s scientist in schools program.
Gerard Ostheimer
Ostheimer is a senior advisor and co-founder of below50, which works to deploy the world’s most sustainable low carbon fuels. Previously, he served as the Secretariat for the Sustainable Bioenergy High Impact Opportunity under the auspices of the UN Sustainable Energy For All Initiative. Until 2013, Ostheimer was a Science Advisor for the U.S. Department of Agriculture during which time he contributed to finalizing the Global Bioenergy Partnership Indicators of Sustainable Bioenergy Production and Use. Ostheimer has a Ph.D. in Molecular Biology from the University of Oregon and did postdoctoral work in Cancer Systems Biology at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
For further information on the Jury Guidelines see here