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Dr Gerry Wait has 30 years of experience as an archaeologist and heritage resource preservation specialist. Until 2008 Dr. Wait was the Technical Director for Heritage at Gifford (an international multidisciplinary engineering and environmental consultancy firm), before leaving to establish Nexus Heritage with Dr. Jeffrey Altschul and Anthony Martin. Dr. Wait is an expert in conservation and management planning, as well as heritage site management and interpretation for the general public. He has prepared conservation and/or management plans for over 50 historical period and heritage sites in North America, the United Kingdom (UK), Romania, Ireland, Egypt, Lebanon and China. Dr. Wait is currently principal investigator for the intangible cultural heritage component of the Environmental Social Impact Assessment (ESIA) being prepared for the proposed Sabodala gold mine in Senegal, and is principal heritage advisor for proposed iron mines in Sierra Leone, a gold mine in Burkino Faso, and on a copper-gold project in Mongolia at Oyu Tolgoi. Dr. Wait also serves as the international expert for archaeology, cultural heritage, and historic buildings for the Rosia Montana gold mining project in Romania. Dr Wait has recently been re-elected as Honorary Chair of the UK’s Institute for Archaeologists (the largest heritage professional association in the world), a post he will hold until October 2012, and in which capacity he has an on-going advocacy role on UK heritage legislation and policy. Dr. Wait has a B.A. in Anthropology from Westminster College, a M.A. in Anthropology and Archaeology from the University of Missouri-Columbia, and a DPhil in European History from the University of Oxford. |
