Sharon Darcy, Chair, Linear Infrastructure Planning Panel

Sharon is Chair of the Linear Infrastructure Planning Panel, an innovative engagement mechanism which is developing good practice in infrastructure planning. She is also a Non-Executive Director of Portsmouth Water, and Chair of CHEM Trust, a charity which seeks to prevent synthetic chemical pollution, including from PFAS.
 
Until 2022, Sharon was Chief Executive of think tank Sustainability First where she led multi-party projects on fairness and the public interest in the energy and water sectors. She has previously Chaired the Ofwat Breakthrough innovation panel and been a member of Ofgem’s energy innovation panels, the National Infrastructure Commission’s climate resilience panel for National infrastructure Assessment 2 and the UK Regulators’ Network Expert Panel. An ex-Council member of Which? Sharon has over 20 years board experience in not-for-profit organisations. She began her career working on value for money studies in the privatisation and regulation department of the National Audit Office.