Robert Lisney OBE

Bob is a director in the Environment Group at Hampshire County Council with responsibility for Natural Resource Management..

He has worked for Hampshire County Council for 27 years, in a variety of personnel and management consultancy roles, culminating in the role of Organisational Development Advisor until moving to an operational post in the County Surveyors department 1989.

Since then he has been involved with the development of a unique public/private sector partnership for the provision of an integrated waste management service called Project Integra. The project involves all 13 local authorities in the County as well as the contractor, Hampshire Waste Services. The project attained Beacon Council status in 1999. He was awarded "Municipal Engineer of the Year 2000" by the Association of Municipal Engineers /Surveyor magazine.

He has for many years been involved with a number of national organisations, being currently Chairman of the National Waste Awareness Initiative, a member of the National Waste and Resource Forum. He was the inaugral Chairman of the Resource Recovery Forum and also chaired the CSS Waste Management Committee for 6 years.

He is an advisor on waste and resources to the Local Government Association, and contributes to working groups of the Institute of Wastes Management. In Hampshire he is chairman of the advisory board for the Msc in sustainable waste management at the University of Southampton and a member of the advisory management board of the Wessex Institute of Technology. He is an alumni of the Prince of Wales’s Business and the Environment programme.

He regularly presents papers and facilitates at conferences. His book on his experiences in waste management ‘Project Integra – a personal history’ was published in 2002..

He holds professional membership with the Institution of Wastes Management; the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and the Institute of Management Services

In the Millennium Honours List he became an officer of the Order of the British Empire for services to sustainable waste management.

In a voluntary capacity he is Chairman of the Hampshire & Isle of Wight Association for Deaf People. All this is counterbalanced by support for Crystal Palace Football Club and an interest in American History and World Cinema.