Profile Summary
Paul Dumble is a multi-disciplinary and stakeholder specialist focused on linking science with policy and best practice. He is an innovative climate, resource, and waste specialist with more than 40 years of experience across industrial, building, and FMCG retail product and process development; intellectual property and circular economy systems; and waste and resource management.
He is currently co-developing, with a PhD researcher, a novel model to determine biodiversity loss and economic damage caused by pollution in soil and marine ecosystems. His recent leadership roles include Review Editor for the UNEP GEO-7 Global Environmental Crisis Chapeau and GEO-7 Summary for Policy Makers (Western European Group), as well as Editor of the Society for Environment’s policy report Soil and Stones: Sustaining our future by influencing change in the UK and beyond and Chair of the Climate Change Soil Water Dynamics Subgroup.
Paul also served as Lead Author and Editor of the UN Environment/ISWA/IETC/CEDARE publication Waste Management Outlook for West Asia - Waste to Wealth, and contributed to GEO-6 publications as Coordinating Lead Author and Independent Reviewer.
His achievements include design, specification, and implementation elements of an Emirate-level smart waste system in Abu Dhabi (2008-2011), facilitation and technical authorship of the multimodal London Freight Plan for sustainable freight distribution (TfL Freight Unit, 2005-2008), and concept initiation and development of the waste minimization training board game Eliminate (WWF, Environment Agency, Groundwork, Green Board Company, 2001).
He holds an MSc in Waste Management, a PGCE in Waste and Environmental Training from Lancashire University, and a BSc in Chemistry from Leeds University.
Need help developing the best solution and business case? Paul brings practical, policy-aligned expertise to translate environmental ambition into implementable systems.