Niall Gleeson
Managing director - Irish Water
Niall has been Managing Director of Irish Water since August 2019. He joined the company from Shanahan Engineering where he held the role of Senior Director based in Hong Kong. Prior to this, Niall was Managing Director of Veolia Ireland, read more
Brian Sheehan
Head of asset delivery - Irish Water
Brian Sheehan is head of asset delivery and part of the senior management team at Irish Water. In his role, he has responsibility for the delivery of the water and waste water capital investment programmes. The planned programme over the read more
Feargal Ó Coigligh
Assistant secretary for water - Department of Housing, Planning & Local Government
Feargal Ó Coigligh is assistant secretary at the Department of Housing, Planning and Local Government, heading up the water division of the department. He previously served as assistant secretary in the Department of Culture, Heritage and the Gaeltacht, where he read more
Linda MacHugh
Director of water & drainage policy division - Department for Infrastructure
Linda is the Director of Water and Drainage Policy Division in the Department for Infrastructure. She is responsible for the development and maintenance of the policy and regulatory environment to provide a modern, high quality water and sewerage service, at read more
Tanya Hedley
Director of networks - Utility Regulator
Sean McCarthy
Head of leakage - Anglian Water
Tom Harvie-Clark
General manager: strategy and economic regulation - Scottish Water
Tom is accountable for Scottish Water’s long term strategy and developing its Business Plan for the 2021-27 regulatory period. He qualified as an accountant with KPMG before working with the Scottish Government as economist for several years and then advising read more
Laura Brien
Director of water - Commission for Regulation of Utilities
Laura Brien was appointed director of water and compliance in February 2019. Prior to that, she was director of energy markets at the CRU since 2014, where she was responsible for delivering the Integrated Single Electricity Market for energy and read more
David Lonergan
National leakage manager
David Lonergan is National Leakage Manager at Irish Water where he has led the Leakage Management team since 2018. This team is responsible for achieving Irish Waters leakage reduction targets via Capital & Operational activities. This team manages all key read more
Jodie Rettino
Catchment and biodiversity lead - Severn Trent
Jodie Rettino manages the Catchment and Biodiversity Team which is focused on preventing pollution reaching Severn Trent Water’s raw water abstractions and improving the wider water environment. She has been working at Severn Trent for 9 years and since joining read more
Michelle Minihan
Senior inspector, drinking water team - Environment Protection Agency
Michelle is the senior inspector for the drinking water team in the Environmental Protection Agency in the Republic of Ireland. After completing her PhD at the University of Limerick, Michelle joined Intel Ireland before moving to Teagasc and then the read more
Olga Grant
Assistant principal, climate adaptation policy - Department of communications, climate action & environment
Olga Grant has a Bachelor’s Degree in Environmental Sciences and PhD in Plant Biology (ecophysiology and ecological genetics), followed by 14 years of research in public and private research institutes and Universities, in Ireland, the UK, Spain, and Portugal, predominantly read more
Paddy Brow
Head of Living With Water Programme - NI Water
Paddy leads NI Water's input to the Living With Water Programme (LWWP), which is led by the Department for Infrastructure. This programme is developing a Strategic Drainage Infrastructure Plan (SDIP) for Belfast that has the core objectives of protecting against read more
Beatrice Martin
Water treatment manager - Xylem
Beatrice Martin has been working for 12 years as the disinfection and more recently ozone oxidation Sales Manager in the UK, focusing on the needs from the water utilities. She is a UV expert and obtained an MSc Water & read more
David Smith
Global strategy officer - Stantec
As a Stantec senior vice president, David drives corporate strategy and growth initiatives using his personal experience of varying investment delivery approaches, trends, operating models and practices from across the globe. He is a proven senior executive with more than read more