John Fawell has worked in the field of water quality for over 40 years, first at the UK Water Research Centre, eventually as Chief Scientist of the National Centre for Environmental Toxicology, and later as an independent consultant. He has been involved in research on and risk assessment of a wide range of contaminants, both organic and inorganic. He has been a member of the team working on the WHO Guidelines for drinking water quality since 1986 and is an author on many WHO advisory and supporting documents. He remains a member of the WHO expert committee on the Guidelines and works closely with WHO regional offices, particularly European Office through which he was one of the main authors of the advisory document for the European Commission on the revision of the European drinking water directive. He has been closely involved in assessing contaminants impacting aquatic organisms and also on wastewater re-use. Professor Fawell is a visiting professor at Cranfield University Institute for Water Science and has provided advice to governments in many parts of the world.

Ann is a Principal Inspector at the Drinking Water Inspectorate with responsibility for communications, stakeholder engagement, and policy. Ann has led a project on EU Exit, ensuring that domestic regulations continued to work effectively post Brexit, and has developed the governance structures for an advisory board on drinking water standards, for England. Prior to that, Ann was a water quality scientist at Northumbrian Water. She also has experience of working at the Environment Agency, STEM education, and the voluntary sector.

Philippe Sauvignet currently holds the position of industrialisation manager within Veolia Technical and Performance Department. He joined Veolia in 1993 after graduating from ISIM, Montpellier University (France). During the first part of his career, he worked as commissioning manager in various countries around the world. He is currently responsible for the development of novel water treatment technologies within the Veolia group. His main focus involve high rate clarification, membrane filtration and treatment of emerging pollutants. His role focuses on adapting the technology to new constraints, preparing patents and new functionality. He is also responsible for pooling the effort of Veolia Water Technologies business units around the world on specific subjects such as high rate clarification, activated carbon processes and water softening.

Sarah is an academic lawyer specialising in water and environmental law. She is the Head of Law at the University of Dundee. She also works within the UNESCO Centre for Water Law, Policy and Science which is hosted at the University of Dundee. Sarah is Scottish Editor for the Journal of Water Law and the Journal of Environmental Law and Management, co-convenor of the UK Environmental Law Association’s Scottish water law sub-group, and vice-chair of the International Water Association’s Specialist Group on Governance and Regulation. Her interest in Scottish, EU and comparative water law extends across both water resources and water services, and she has published widely, including on comparative frameworks for water law reform, on the ‘Scottish model’ of governance and regulation of water services, and on the regulation of emerging pollutants.

Fraser is an organic pollutant consultant with a MSc in Biomedical Science.

His focus is on helping major industries to meet their environmental discharge regulations in order to build a more sustainable future for everyone.

Ceris is a water industry professional with 30 years proven scientific expertise in clean water, wastewater and an in-depth knowledge of public health and water quality. She has held senior management positions in several UK water companies and was a Drinking Water Inspector in DWI with responsibility for regulating and governing water companies in England and Wales. Ceris is a Director of Scientific Services at Water Research Company (WRc) supporting the industry to research and understand new emerging contaminants and associated issues amongst a wider remit. 

Ceris has a wealth of experience as a programme and project manager including developing, planning and successfully delivering significant operational savings and led continued improvements in Water Companies. Experienced in managing and leading diverse cross-functional operational, scientific, asset management and capital teams. She has introduced new innovative technology and developed water training courses for global virtual delivery. Past Chair of the Institute of Water Welsh area and member of CIWEM’s Water Treatment and Quality panel.  

Nabil is currently the Technical Director of Toxicology at WRc’s National Centre for Environmental Toxicology (NCET), providing an independent advisory service on the health significance of chemicals in drinking water, wastewater, and the environment for UKWIR members and sponsors.

Nabil has over 20 years of experience of research into the molecular mechanisms of toxicants including the behaviour of persistent pollutants, pesticides, and heavy metals as well as pharmaceutical chemicals. He has held several competitive research fellow positions in leading research institutions in Spain, Sweden, USA, and UK.

Nabil has had significant involvement at Imperial College London as a group leader, a senior research fellow in the faculty of medicine, Cancer Division, and most recently, as the Deputy director of Toxicology Unit at Imperial College London where he acted as an advisor to the UK Department of Health on the challenging and increasing number of toxic compounds. Through his work he has published over 60 research publications and established a strong international collaboration with leading research institutions and biotechnology companies.

Andrew is an Associate Director in Bioresources at Jacobs. He has a background in research of resource recovery from wastewater, and recycling sludge to land in the UK water sector. Since joining Jacobs, Andrew has applied his experience and provided key analysis on a number of projects for water companies and regulators. This has included assessment of the carbon benefits of recycling sludge (and biochar) to land for water companies in the UK and Australia. Andrew is currently assessing technologies and markets for biochar produced from sewage sludge. This activity is one possible option to manage increasing pressure on the treatment of micropollutants in sludge and impacts on sludge to land.

Glenn is a consultant Environmental Scientist at Atkins specialising in water quality and monitoring.  He holds a PhD on passive sampling for metaldehyde in surface waters and response to stochastic storm events. He has extensive experience in the assessment and generation of environmental data and has worked on designing and implementing monitoring programs for a range of water industry clients. Focusing on environmental impacts of emerging and problematic chemicals in both drinking and surface water. He is currently involved in the Chemicals Investigation programme (CIP) 3 for UK Water industry Research working alongside the Environment Agency and the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs. His role within CIP3 has been the collation, quality assurance, analysis and reporting of several of the chem drivers involved with the programme, this includes but is not limited to: Groundwater, Emerging substances, Transitional and coastal, Trends, and Removals by installed technologies. 

Cynthia Carliell-Marquet is a Wastewater Innovation Architect for Severn Trent. Her role within the Asset Intelligence and Innovation Team at Severn Trent is to create innovative solutions to wastewater strategic challenges, from customer drain to river. She is passionate about finding alternative, sustainable solutions to wastewater system challenges such as micropollutants, that push the boundaries of wastewater treatment to deliver a better final product without excessive chemical and power consumption.

I am the co-founder and CEO of Daphne Water Solutions Limited (https://www.dwsol.co.uk/), delivering sustainable technologies for tertiary wastewater treatment.

I am Professor of Evolutionary Systems Biology and Environmental Omics at the University of Birmingham where I am affiliated both with Biosciences and the Institute of Interdisciplinary Data Science and AI. I am also an Alan Turing Fellow at the UK Alan Turing Institute, the national institute for data science and artificial intelligence.

My mission is to improve environmental health by pushing the boundaries of research and innovation. I apply high throughput sequencing technologies, data science and AI to understand the impact of environmental change on freshwater ecosystems. I work with ghost DNA and resurrected crustaceans to identify the causes of biodiversity loss and the mechanisms of evolution that allow species to persist. I love multidisciplinary science and thinking out of the box. This thinking has led me to patent and commercialize a water reclamation and waste valorization technology that meets the net-zero carbon emission goals and delivers clean water to all. By translating cutting-edge multidisciplinary science into practical applications, I provide tools and processes for mitigation interventions that enable green growth and meet the UN developmental goals.

Dr Emma Goslan, CChem is a Lecturer in Water Chemistry at Cranfield University. Her research focuses on Water Chemistry and the Analysis of Micropollutants. She has a great interest in emerging pollutants and discovering how to tackle these from the analytical aspect to treatment options and influence on drinking water quality and health. Currently Emma is supervising two PhD students studying disinfection by-products to understand their formation and how operational parameters can promote minimisation at the treatment works. Their projects are funded by UKWIR and EPSRC.

Esme Piechoczek is a Bioresources Consultant for Atkins. She has supported a number of clients in the UK Water sector and internationally with critical research and development of their Bioresources strategies, including research for UKWIR around the feasibility of Advanced Thermal Conversion technology implementation in the UK and development of the national Bioresources strategy for England in partnership with CIWEM, funded by Water UK. Having studied Sustainable Development at the Science Policy Research Unit (Sussex), she is focused on driving the circular economy and achieving better social and environmental outcomes in the sector through strategic decision making, regulation and policy.