Philip Mulvey is part consultant, part contractor, part researcher and part entrepreneur but has always been a free thinker.  He has built army bases in East Timor, supervised the erection of the largest tent in the UK, sold meat pies in the USA, cleaned up 2 uranium mines, developed townhouses on landfills, rewrote the manual on oil palm development on PASS in Sumatra, evaluated rehabilitation of the desert in Kuwait, participated in the first green city design in the world, evaluated degraded land on the Monaro and he has represented Australia in sailing.

He currently has businesses in environmental soil science, whole of farm management, remediation and civil earthworks and property development in which he has trained numerous scientists in the art of commercial scientific problem-solving.  He is a father of 4 and a grandfather soon to be of 4.  (His family are undecided whether he is a pain in the arse all the time or only part of the time). He is proud to say he is a soil scientist (except to customs officers as he is sick and tired in having his boots checked). After over 35 years as a practising soil scientist in landscape repair, he remains passionate about the subject and the value of our profession, particularly with regard to our role in landscape repair.