Speakers

Tony is an experienced regulatory economist and strategist with over twenty-five years’ experience in senior corporate, consultancy and regulatory roles. Tony is presently Chief Strategy & Regulation Officer at Cadent Gas Ltd - the largest of the UK’s gas distribution businesses - where he leads the company’s decarbonisation strategy and regulatory interface with Ofgem the energy sector’s regulator. Prior to Cadent, Tony was Director of Strategy & Regulation at Severn Trent Water where he performed a very similar role - and was on the Severn Trent Plc Board for eight years. He has previously worked as an economic consultant in the utilities sector for Stone & Webster and London Economics with extensive international/developing country experience - as well as Ofwat’s Chief Economist. Tony is a passionate environmentalist and conservationist and is Chairman of the National Forest Company. He is also on the board of Flood Re and lectures on regulation at the London School of Economics.