Amir has a Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in Civil and Environmental Engineering and is a fellow member of Engineers Australia. As a designer, project manager and researcher, he has been involved in civil and geosynthetic industry over the last 20 years. He is the National Technical Manager at Global Synthetics. Amir is currently the chair of the Australian Geomechanics Society (AGS)-QLD Chapter, Leadership team member of the International Geosynthetic Society Technical Committees for Barriers (TC-B), board member of the QLD Landfill Working Group, board member of the Waste Management and Resource Recovery of Australia in QLD, and member of the ASTM Technical Committee D35-Geosynthetics. He is also board member of the American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE)-Australian Section, Industry Board member of the Australian Pavement Research Hub, Board member of ARC Training Centre for Advanced Technologies in rail Track Infrastructure (ITTC- Rail), member of the Standards Australia Technical Committee CE/032-Reinforced fill structures working group, member of the International Geosynthetic Society Technical Committees for reinforcement (TC-R) and Stabilisation (TC-S), university guest lecturer on geosynthetics, part time PHD researcher, and the industry supervisor and advisor for several geosynthetic and geotechnical research projects in Australia and overseas.

Randy Thompson is a licensed Professional Engineer at Propex GeoSolutions and is responsible for educating the international civil engineering community on the design and implementation of synthetic erosion control systems. He received a B.S. in Civil Engineering from Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University and a M.S. in Engineering and Technology Management from Oklahoma State University. Over the last 20 years he has become an industry leader in synthetic erosion control systems and has played a key role in the industry’s growth and acceptance.