Max Wade Author

Brian Taylor has qualifications in crop protection and amenity horticulture and is a certified surveyor in Japanese knotweed and member of the BASIS Professional Register. He has considerable experience in commercial evaluation of spray techniques and machinery, and is Director of The Knotweed Company where he has developed management programmes for bamboo, knotweeds and other invasive plants. Jim Glaister has worked in the invasive weed industry since 2004 and is southern area manager for The Knotweed Company. Max Wade is Technical Director (Ecology) at AECOM and a former Professor of Environmental Sciences at the University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield. He was founding Chairman of the PCA's Invasive Weed Control Group, and is President of the Chartered Institute of Ecology and Environmental Management