Sean Ashworth

Sean Ashworth is a Catchment Strategy Manager at Southern Water. For the last five years he has been working on developing the company's interactions with key environmental stakeholders and Catchment Partnerships. His work at Southern water has also included delivery of critical water quality risk and mitigation work in river and groundwater systems. Sean started his career with a PhD in ecology at Exeter and went on to be a manager at the Environment Agency for fourteen years before joining Sussex Inshore Fisheries & Conservation Authority as Deputy Chief Officer, where he worked for seven years. Throughout this time he built the first Catchment Partnership pilot in Sussex, ran river enhancement project programmes, developed EA marine strategy, managed compliance programmes and developed and implemented significant marine protection regulation.