Tony has developed his expertise and interest in environmental matters through leading a number of multi-disciplinary teams in support of a variety of projects in the water services industries; from within Government; oil and gas exploration and civil engineering sectors. He is both a Chartered Engineer and Chartered Scientist, and a Fellow at the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management, at the Institution of Civil Engineers, and at the Learned Society of Wales. In December 2011, Tony took up his role of Director of Environment at DCWW, where he leads the Environmental, Innovation, and Science agendas for the business with the objective of providing a safe and sustainable environment for DCWW customers, one which they are proud to hand to future generations. Tony also supports a number of board appointments including that at the UK Water Industry Research Forum (UKWIR), and is a founding director of Spring Innovation Ltd - the water sectors centre of excellence for innovation. He is an honorary visiting Professor at the School of Biosciences at Cardiff University and at the School of Environmental and Natural Sciences at Bangor University.

Dr Nick Paling specialises in the analysis, visualisation and communication of strategic information to engage stakeholders and ensure that environmental actions are co-designed, targeted and co-created in locations that give the greatest magnitude and diversity of social, cultural, economic and environmental outcomes. For ~15 years, Nick has been working as a ‘knowledge-broker’ and co-creation-facilitator on local collaborative governance, participatory environmental planning, community-based climate resilience/adaptation and Nature Based Solutions projects. Since 2017, Nick has been working as a European Commission (Horizon 2020 and Joint Research Centre) Technical Expert.

Mark is a global water sector specialist and has worked extensively in the water, wastewater and biosolids industries throughout his career. A chemical engineer by profession, he is passionate about process engineering and innovation. As CEO of the Water Research Centre, he pioneered many different innovations within the sector and was responsible for driving its acquisition by RSK in August 2020. Since then, Mark has taken up the role of RSK Group director for water and is looking to work internationally with like-minded partners and associates to help them deliver the UN Sustainable Development Goals through deploying RSK’s unique abilities to get things done in difficult climates. Mark believes that we have the solutions to most of the world’s water problems; we now need to find the will to implement them.

Stuart is an experienced business leader with a career spanning over 40 years. He has held senior positions in a number of blue chip organisations including AMEC, Balfour Beatty and J Murphy & Sons. He is a chartered structural engineer although his responsibilities over the last 25 years have focused more on business performance and sustainable growth. Working with tier 1 consultants and contractors has enabled Stuart to build organisational credibility where integration and collective engagement across multiple stakeholders has been key to success at both project and programme level. His trademark in the industry has always been to seek out ways to improve capacity, knowledge and performance. Stuart is coming up for his one year anniversary with Victaulic, where his primary role is to establish the company’s market position in the world of UK water. Victaulic is a global leader providing integrated pipeline build strategies for clients across many infrastructure markets. The firm produces couplings, fittings and valves at its energy-efficient foundries around the world and develops resilient piping solutions for new build and refurbishment programmes including above ground, buried and submerged situations.

Penny Green leads and directs sustainable wastewater management projects for Stantec, with experience working for numerous UK water companies, in particular Thames Water and Southern Water in the Asset Management, Project Definition and Capital Delivery areas. She is a chartered civil engineer, Member of the Institution of Civil Engineers and has a MPhil in Engineering for Sustainable Development. Her passion for Sustainability, Carbon and Systems Thinking has meant that her experience has grown from Wastewater treatment design to whole catchment approaches, most recently working with Southern Water on their innovative and award winning Clean Rivers and Seas Taskforce approach to storm overflows. In conjunction with this she has been leading Stantec design teams on Nature Based solutions such as SuDs and Wetlands. Penny has been a Carbon Champion within Stantec for over 3 years, working with Stantec’s wider team to achieve PAS 2080 accreditation. In her spare time her interests include walking, wildlife watching and gardening.

Joe is the Analytics Solution Lead for Arcadis Intelligence Business and has over 22 years’ experience in applying analytics into a wide range of utility organisations to help improve their asset investment planning, asset management and decision making. He has extensive experience in data, analytics, optimisation, adaptive planning, Machine Learning / AI, decision support tools, sustainability, and climate change resilience.

Dan Joined Water UK as Director of Policy in January 2024 and is responsible for overseeing development of our policy agenda, including water services, the environment, rivers & seas, and resilience. Dan previously worked in Defra for four years, latterly as Deputy Director for the Policy Response and Resilience Unit. Before that, he held several roles focussing on water and energy sector regulation, at Ofwat and Citizens Advice respectively.

Duncan is a fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and currently holds the position of Area Sales Director of Grundfos Water Utilities Division in the UK and Ireland. He works closely with British Water and is the Convener of the Asset Management Focus Group. With over thirty years of engineering experience in the water industry, Duncan has worked with pumps, process solutions, and water and wastewater treatment in the municipal and industrial market sectors.

Ian Small is the Lead Innovation Consultant for Expedition Engineering, an SME, social enterprise and certified B-Corp that uses human-centred design to bring innovative engineering solutions to infrastructure. He has worked in the water sector for two decades in various roles for engineering consultancies across waste and storm water management for clients around the world. He now specialises in innovation management supporting innovators, innovation managers, and leaders to effectively deliver and scale innovation. He writes articles and blogs on innovation in general and the Ofwat Innovation Fund./p>

Maria is a Technical Director for Decarbonisation in the Water Sector. She is a Chartered Engineer with 20 years of industry experience specialising in infrastructure investment planning, carbon management and net zero. Maria has worked extensively with Water Utilities advising on decarbonisation plans and strategies. She is the lead author of PAS 2080 and co-author of the HM Treasury Infrastructure Carbon Review. Has significant experience working with infrastructure asset owners and their supply chain to help define their carbon management strategies and embed carbon management into infrastructure delivery programmes of work through best practice. Maria is Member of the Green Construction Board and has been involved in various Industry Forums to help shape the infrastructure decarbonisation agenda in water and other sectors, including the ICE Carbon Project. She is a visiting Lecturer on Sustainability and Low Carbon Practices at Cranfield University. Maria has been supporting the UK Water sector’s decarbonisation efforts through leading the Water UK Sector Net Zero Routemap and providing advice to individual water utilities on their net zero plans. She is a member of the UK Water Net Zero Expert Panel and the Energy UK group engaging Energy and Water utilities for assessing risks and opportunities between hydrogen production and water resources.

Jeroen Röhner is Head of Energy Efficiency at Samotics, an analytics company that uses AI to help prevent pollution incidents, unplanned asset failure and energy waste in water utilities. At Samotics, he works to deliver digital products that unlock opportunities for energy consumption reduction in pumps, blowers and other rotating equipment. Jeroen stresses that operators and maintenance teams can already take cost-effective steps to improve operation of their existing equipment in an informed way today, if they have the right asset-level data and insights to back those up. With formal training as an engineer and years of experience as strategy consultant, Jeroen has worked with almost all UK water utilities to help them reduce the electricity consumption, and associated greenhouse gases at the asset level. As a member of the management team of Samotics, Jeroen is passionate about helping water utilities face environmental and industry challenges and collaborating to make a positive impact on our world.

Luke is the Stakeholder, Communications & Performance Manager for MWH Treatment Limited, where he leads the company’s communication strategy and also manages stakeholder engagement across our United Utilities framework. With over 12 years’ experience in utilities and the construction sector, Luke’s background is in developing and executing communication and engagement strategies across multi-million-pound programmes of work by gathering insight and collecting feedback to drive improvements and performance. Luke collaborates across the business to drive communication and engagement, including a strong focus on the effective stakeholder management across our Northwest framework. Luke has experience in the application across different regions, the length of the UK, to aid understanding of the different social and economic factors to successfully deliver work for our clients.

Catherine is the Head of Sustainability and Environment for MWH Treatment Limited, where she leads the company’s sustainability, responsible business and environmental approach. With over 20 years’ experience in utilities and the construction sector, Catherine’s background is in developing and implementing environmental management systems with a fully integrated approach. She collaborates across the business to facilitate the delivery of the company’s Net Zero Carbon commitment and the Sustainability strategy, as well as providing support internally and with the value chain in carbon management and reduction. Catherine also leads on the business social value approach, as well as the company’s anti-modern slavery policy and processes.

Director of Strategic Development and Stewardship for the Rivers Trust, seconded from United Utilities. Responsible for leading on the development of strategic opportunities for The Rivers Trust movement, driving capability and technical expertise growth across the movement, in order to achieve the best possible deals for freshwater, catchments, and people.

Karma Loveday is founder and editor of The Water Report, an independent publication covering UK water sector policy, regulation, strategy and competition. Karma has 25 years of experience as a journalist covering regulated industries. Karma also works as water advisor to the Major Energy Users Council, and is a non-executive director on the board of Waterwise.