Ali is an experienced procurement leader who has worked across the public and private sector buying anything from IT equipment to live props for the BBC and has now found a passion for the water sector and the infrastructure it delivers and manages. She is currently leading key procurement activity to drive the delivery of infrastructure for Anglian Water in AMP8 and beyond.

Andrew was appointed Executive Vice President, Skanska UK, in January 2025.

As Executive Vice President (EVP), Andrew is responsible for Skanska’s Infrastructure business, which operates in the rail, highways, water, defence and energy sectors. He is also responsible for Skanska’s joint venture work in delivering the London Tunnels section of HS2 and specialist design and environmental consultancy, Skanska Technology.

Andrew is a member of Skanska’s Executive Management Team (EMT), where he plays a key role in driving and implementing the strategic direction of the business. He was appointed EVP following his return to the business in March 2024 as Managing Director for Skanska’s Infrastructure operations. Andrew’s appointment marked a return to Skanska, following a near 10-year career with the company, between 2011 and 2019, during which time he held two managing director positions.

Prior to returning to Skanska, he led Australian firm John Holland Group’s national infrastructure business and oversaw AtkinsRéalis’ transportation division in the UK. Andrew is firmly committed to supporting people to progress their careers in construction and is Executive Sponsor of one of Skanska UK’s six employee networks – the Ability Network. This drives awareness of the many diverse abilities that people with disabilities and caring responsibilities bring.

David Black was appointed as Chief Executive in April 2022. Before that, he was interim Chief Executive of Ofwat from April 2021. Prior to this, he was Chief Regulation Officer at Ofwat and led the 2019 price review. David joined Ofwat in 2012 as Director of Economics and became a Senior Director in 2015. David became Chief Executive of the UK Regulators Network (UKRN) on 1st September 2024.

Prior to joining Ofwat, David held a number of roles in economic consulting, advising on economic regulation, competition and financial economics in the communications and energy sectors. He has also worked at Oftel, New Zealand Treasury and New Zealand Commerce Commission.

Matt Cannon is chief executive of Clancy, one of the UK’s largest privately owned, independent contractors. He took up the role in 2019 following a 15-year career of operational roles in the business founded by his grandfather Michael Clancy. Matt has since overseen the establishment of a new leadership team and led the creation of Clancy’s refreshed vision and strategy.

As an infrastructure partner working across major frameworks and alliances in water and energy, as well as supporting ground-breaking civil engineering and infrastructure programmes, Clancy employs and trains a workforce of over 3,000 people across the UK. With a 66-year track record in technical expertise and innovation, a sustained, stable growth trajectory, and an independent, family-ownership model, Clancy ensures it reinvests its profits into innovative and sustainable tools and ways of working.

Leading an innovative delivery team who do things differently to improve the environment for our communities. Using partnership approaches to significantly reduce our impact on the environment through catchment and nature-based solutions.

Nick is an engineer with a background in complex and innovative programmes. He is a chartered engineer with the Institute of Engineering & Technology, has an Engineering Doctorate and was awarded an industrial fellowship from the Royal Commission of 1851 for his work.

Peter is currently a Principal Consultant at the Water Research Centre (WRc) in the UK and heads up its Pollution Reduction team which specialise in wastewater networks. He has been in the wastewater industry for over 36 years working as a contractor doing sewer surveys before joining Wessex Water as their Private Sewers Transfer Manager. He joined WRc in 2009 and has an extensive background in drain and sewer management, sewer condition assessment, drain and sewer rehabilitation and as an expert witness in drainage disputes. He has authored several publications relating to household drainage including the Drain Repair Book and the Manual of Drain and Sewer Cleaning.

He is currently working on research aimed at reducing the numbers of spills from storm overflows, sewer blockages and pollution incidents to help improve our environment.

He delivers technical training as part of the WRc Academy team in drain repair and sewer condition assessment with training delivered in exotic places such as Singapore, Malaysia, India, Sri Lanka and Portugal.

He was recently awarded the Pride in the South West Award by the Institute of Water in 2023 for his work in explaining the need to maintain our drains and sewers with his 3P’s flushing message, only Pee, Poo and Paper. He sits on the Technical Committees of the National Association of Drainage Contractors and UK Society of Trenchless Technologies.

Outside of work he’s a keen cyclist and a Bristol Bears rugby fan

Sarah joined Morgan Sindall in October 2022 from Network Rail, where she was most recently route director for the East Coast Main Line. Prior to this, Sarah worked in several senior roles at companies including Bombardier, Invensys Rail and Siemens. Sarah brings more than 20 years’ experience of delivering complex and challenging projects while working collaboratively with multiple stakeholders to ensure consistent, safe delivery. She is also a founder of Never Mind the Gap, a cross rail industry initiative that aims to provide training and work placements for women. Outside work, Sarah enjoys exercising, and going for walks with her family and pet dog.

Having worked in senior roles within water companies and consultancy for over a decade, Tom has expertise across operations, innovation, transformation, asset management and regulation. Tom brings a detailed understanding of both the engineering realities water companies face and the requirements of regulators and other stakeholders. It is this combination that has enabled Tom to specialise in setting strategy, developing business plans, and securing successful regulatory determinations from price controls.

• Tom is a senior leader with broad experience in supporting utilities to face their most complex strategic challenges
• Experienced in price controls and long-term strategy, through to managing the organisations to deliver on these plans
• He combines strategic vision and experienced pragmatism to help companies set the right direction and the plan to get there
  

Toby has over 30 years working in the environmental services sector as a regulator, operator and strategist. Over this time he has worked in the Environment Agency, Water Companies and is an iNED at British Water. Much of his work has involved planning and delivering infrastructure that must be able to both accommodate changes in our climate and do a job of work. Toby brings a wealth of experience and insight to the delivery of resilient water infrastructure.