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Biography

Glen is an environmental and town planning lawyer with over 40 years of experience. He has held senior positions in major Australian, English and American law firms. In July 2012 he established his independent niche firm, Glen McLeod Legal where he practices in the areas of environmental and town planning law. Glen is rated in Doyles Guide to environmental and planning law in Western Australia as ‘Pre-eminent’ and his firm of ‘Tier 1’. He is a part time Board member of the WA Environmental Protection Authority and the WA Waste Authority. In the International Bar Association he is the immediate past Chair of the Environmental Health and Safety Committee and he sits on the Council of the Section on Energy, Environment, Resources and Infrastructure Law. He is a member of the WA Law Society’s Environment Town Planning and Local Government Committee and its Education Committee. Glen is an Adjunct Professor at Murdoch University, where he teaches units in environmental and town planning law. He is a member of the Advisory Group to the Murdoch University Dean of Law and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He was the recipient of the 2016 WA Law Society’s Lawyer of the Year Award and is recognised in Who’s Who Legal 2017 as being one of the world’s leading Environmental lawyers. Glen is the General Editor of the national loose leaf publication Planning Law in Australia and an editor of the Local Government Law Journal.