Dr Jenny Stauber is a Chief Research Scientist at the Centre for Environmental Contaminants Research, CSIRO Land and Water in Sydney and is a Fellow of both the Australian Academy of Science and the Australian Academy of Technology and Engineering. She has over 40 years of experience with CSIRO undertaking research on the downstream environmental impacts of mining, the bioavailability and toxicity of metals in marine and freshwater systems, aquatic ecotoxicology, risk assessment, ecogenomics, human toxicology and the derivation of water and sediment quality guidelines. She has chaired and served as expert ecotoxicologist on several World Health Organisation review boards, together with the NSW EPA Board and a large number of expert advisory panels to the Australian government on areas as diverse as contaminants, reef water quality, uranium mining, coal seam gas, hazardous waste, chemicals risk assessment and water quality guidelines. She is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a SETAC Fellow.