Ryan Pearson
Business manager, water utility - Grundfos
Ryan Pearson, business manager at Grundfos Pumps, has been involved in the UK water sector for 15 years. He has been working at Grundfos within the water utilities division for the past 6 years, with a mission to create value read more
Sharon Darcy
Director - Sustainability First
Sharon is director of think tank, Sustainability First, where she set up the New Energy and Water Public Interest Network (‘New-Pin’). She is a board member of the Solicitors Regulation Authority (SRA), a member of the UK Regulators Network expert read more
Dr Yongqiang Liu
Lecturer in environmental engineering - University of Southampton
Dr Yongqiang Liu is a lecturer in environmental engineering within engineering and the environment at the University of Southampton. Her research focuses on sustainable wastewater treatment with concerns of greenhouse gas emission, water quality, nutrient and energy recovery, and reuse read more
Yvonne Mwende Lefler
Principal civil engineer - Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago
Mwende Lefler began her career with the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District of Greater Chicago in 2007. She has served in the process design group which plans, designs, bids, and supports post-award construction work for capital improvement projects at the district’s read more
Ruth Barden
Director of environmental strategy - Wessex Water
Ruth is the director of environmental strategy at Wessex Water leading on catchment based approaches, environmental planning, biodiversity and delivery of the Water Framework Directive, including the Chemical Investigations Programmes. She has worked at Wessex Water for more than 10 read more
Mathew Davis
Technical advisor - Environment Agency
Mat Davis is a soil scientist with the Environment Agency with a lead on materials to land. Before taking this role in 2002, Mat joined the former Anglian region in 1999 to implement the contaminated land regime. With a degree read more
Mark Livingstone
Head of regulation - NIEA
Mark has been the head of regulation at the Northern Ireland Environment Agency since June 2016. In this role he deals with regulation, compliance and enforcement issues associated with the water environment from industry, utilities and domestic properties, and leads read more
Andy Drinkwater
Sewerage operations expert - WRC Plc
Andy has over 30 years’ of wastewater experience, working in the UK and overseas. He has traditional sewerage planning, design and construction experience as well as a wealth of research and design knowledge. Andy specialises in sewerage operations and related read more
Allan Mason
Water operations team leader - Scottish Water
Allan joined Scottish Water in November 2009 as a graduate trainee. Since then he has worked his was up to become the operations team leader, and the project manager for the sustainable communities project. This programme had up to £450,000 read more
Jonathan Jones
Senior environment officer - Natural Resources Wales
Jonathan Jones is a senior environment officer, working for the Swansea natural resource management team at Natural Resources Wales. Jonathan has worked with NRW and its predecessor, Environment Agency Wales for more than 18 years. His role as a technical read more
Elvira Gabos
FOG & unflushables manager - Southern Water
Elvira Gabos is Project Manager at Southern Water. She and her team are driving a customer educational and pro-active sewer maintenance project related to fat, oil, greases and unflushables with the aim to prevent sewer blockages, floodings and pollutions to read more
Anna Karpinska Portela
Senior process scientist- asset optimisation - Southern Water
Anna’s background (BEng, MSc and PhD) is in Environmental Engineering, with specialization in water and wastewater treatment processes & numerical modelling. Immediately after her graduation in 2005, she started working as a CFD engineer in R&D at the University of read more
Tim Baldock
Asset optimisation manager - Southern Water
Tim graduated from Plymouth University in 2005 and immediately started working for Southern Water in their laboratory services. In 2007 Tim started working for the wastewater technical support team in operations as a Process Scientist and quickly became lead for read more
Evina Katsou
Senior lecturer - Brunel University
Dr Evina Katsou is a senior lecturer and course director of the Water Engineering MSc at Brunel University, London. She is leading the Water Lab at Brunel University consisting of 6 PhD students and 3 post-doctoral students. Her research activities read more
Imogen Brown
Head of wastewater networks - Welsh Water
Imogen Brown is head of wastewater networks at Welsh Water. She is responsible for the operation and maintenance of the 36,000km of sewers and drains that are owned by Welsh Water. This involves dealing with around 50,000 customer contacts a read more
Kees Roest
Senior scientific researcher- industry, wastewater and reuse - KWR Watercycle Research Institute
Kees Roest has worked at KWR since 2008. On the industry, wastewater and reuse team, he works on innovative wastewater purification concepts and technology and the reuse of water, energy and components such as nutrients, cellulose and metals. His research read more
Paul Tipper
Head of wastewater strategy - United Utilities
Paul joined United Utilities from Leeds University and started on the graduate scheme in 2000, since then Paul has undertaken a number of leadership roles across the business. Most notably as Wastewater Asset Manager for the Ribble catchment, Regional Trade read more
Peter Vale
Technical lead- innovation - Severn Trent
Pete is the technical innovation lead in Severn Trent Water’s environmental R&D team. He has a degree in environmental science from the University of Sheffield and a masters degree in water and wastewater engineering from Cranfield University. Pete has been read more
Martyn Hopkinson
Operations director - Future Water Association
After 30+ years in the water & wastewater sector, Martyn Hopkinson is now an independent consultant working with a number of companies across the water sector, specialising in procurement, business development and innovation, working with start-ups and SMEs to bring read more
Phil Marshall
Deputy chief executive - CCWater
Phil has nearly 30 years’ experience in the water sector, working previously for Yorkshire Water, United Utilities and Bristol Water, where he was director of customer service. Phil joined CCWater in February 2015. He is responsible for managing its relationship with read more