Utility Week Live’s keynote steering committee advises our content team on the high level issues shaping the strategic landscape for the UK’s energy and water businesses, including regulatory and policy issues, the wider economy and national and international trends, such as the rise of demand of data centres. The committee is chaired by Utility Week editor James Wallin.

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Chris Burchell

Managing Director, SSEN Distribution

Chris Norbury

CEO, E.ON

David Henderson

Chief Executive, Water UK

Eric Brown

Executive Advisor, Catapult

Greg Jackson

CEO, Octopus Group

Hayley Monks

Co-founder, Womens Utilities Network

Heidi Mottram

CEO, Northumbrian Water

James Earl

Chief executive officer, FEN

Kisha Couchman

Deputy Director of Policy, Energy UK

Lawrence Slade

Chief executive, ENA

Lila Thompson

CEO, British Water

Mark Thurston

Chief Executive, Anglian Water

Marzia Zafar

Deputy Director of Digitalization and Innovation, Ofgem

Mike Rose

Chief Executive, UKWIR 

Oliver Lancaster

Chief executive officer, Institution of Gas Engineers & Managers

Utility Week’s advisory board brings together professionals from across our seven zones – the asset and capital project leads, programme managers, heads of digital and data, customer, workforce, HR and sustainability leads all charged with delivering a new generation of utilities. Their insight shapes our programmes and features, which are built for them and people like them.

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Alex Howard

Head of Flexibility Markets, UKPN

Andrew Barton

Wastewater Planning & Environment Manager Southern Water

Andrew McAvan

Special Project Lead, National Grid Strategic Infrastructure

Anna Afiontzi

Senior Sustainability Project Manager, Severn Trent Water

Aurelia Legrez

Senior Manager Flexibility, Octopus

David Francis

Head of Investment Management and Innovation, UKPN

Derek McNaughton

Head of Customer Care, OVO

Doerte Schneemann

Head of Flexibility Markets, National Grid DSO

Eliza Hughes

Associate Director Stakeholder Engagement & Communications (Water & Environment), Jacobs/United Utilities

Ipek Kaymak

Head of strategic asset management, Affinity Water

Jennifer Davies

Head of Workforce Renewals, SP Energy Networks

Jill Hendry

Customer Inclusion Innovation Manager, SP Electricity North West

Julie Moore

Workforce & Capability Strategy Manager, National Grid

Laura Gheorghe

Development Manager - Capital Programme, UK Power Networks

Marcin Szczepanik

Head of Information Security and NIS Responsible Officer, SP Electricity North West

Michael Hanlon

Interim Head of Major Projects, South East Water

Min Guan

Head of Commercial - Flexibility Team, Octopus

Nick Whittaker

Corporate PR Specialist, Cadent

Nicole Barras

Flexibility Commercial Manager, Northern Powergrid

Nitesh Alagh

Head of Asset Intelligence & Digital Engineering, National Gas

Paul Fitzgerald

DSO Flexibility Markets Manager, SSEN Distribution

Pete Vale

Carbon and Circular Economy Architect, Severn Trent

Sam Mercer

Head of Cost Management and Assurance, National Grid ET

Samantha Ross

Customer Vulnerability and Liaison Manager, Anglian Water Services

Sean Ashworth

Catchment Strategy Manager, Southern Water

Sharon Palmer

Group Sustainability Lead, Severn Trent

Shirley Robertson

Head of Strategic Planning and Sustainability, SSEN Distribution

Yuliya Khilko

Workforce Strategy & Transformation Manager, National Grid

Zac Curtis

UK Innovation Lead, EON Next

More to be announced soon. 

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