John Cowland is an Independent Geotechnical and Geosynthetics Engineering Consultant, based in Hong Kong, China, with 40 years of experience. John has provided advice to over 60 government and private sector clients throughout the Asia Pacific region on geotechnical and environmental projects; including solid waste landfills, dams, tunnels, mines, slopes, soft ground, coastal reclamations, liquid storage and disposal of contaminated soil.

John is an invited Member of the Environmental Geotechnics Committee TC 215 of the International Society for Soil Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering and he was a Council Member of the International Geosynthetics Society (IGS) from 2000 to 2014. He has published 50 technical papers on geosynthetics and geotechnical engineering.