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Environment Agency organisation structure

Updated 4 April 2024

Applies to England

1. Philip Duffy – Chief Executive

2. Alan Lovell – Chair

3. Strategy, Transformation and Assurance

3.1 Tamara Bruck – Executive Director

Nicola Lawton – Director of Strategy, Planning and People

• Harry Leeder – Deputy Director Governance and Engagement
• Rob Sutton – Deputy Director People and Change
• Craig Martin – Deputy Director Chief Pensions Officer
• Mike Cuthbert – Deputy Director Strategy, Planning and Performance
• Daniel Hutley – Deputy Director Health, Safety and Wellbeing
• Rachel Jones – Deputy Director Assurance and Risk
• Mark Davis – Deputy Director Contact Centre Services

Laura Milton – Director of Legal and Audit

• Anne Brosnan – Deputy Director Chief Prosecutor – Enforcement and Prosecution
• Will McKenzie – Deputy Director Legal Services – Flood, Planning, Property, Commercial, Employment and Information
• Estelle Palin – Deputy Director Legal Services – National and Environmental Regulation
• Chloe Tyler-Young – Deputy Director Internal Audit

Neil Davies – Director of Sustainability, Funding and Service Operations

• Lisa Harriss – Deputy Director Estates
• Stuart Homann – Deputy Director Data, Digital and IT
• Van Griffiths and Becky Hibbert – Deputy Director Sustainable Business
• Dale Eynon – Deputy Director Defra Group Fleet Services
• Sarah Cook – Deputy Director Corporate Management, Assurance and Security
• Andy Wilkinson – Deputy Director Future Funding
• Luke Farrington – Deputy Director Data and Digital Transformation

4. Environment and Business

4.1 John Leyland – Executive Director

Georgina Collins – Director Regulated Industry

• Steve Molyneux – Deputy Director Waste and Resources Regulation
• Vacant – Deputy Director Energy, Radioactive Substances and Process Industry
• Liz Parkes – Deputy Director Climate Change, Chemicals and Markets

Jo Nettleton – Chief Regulator

• Emma Harding – Deputy Director Regulatory Resilience
• Gilian Pratt – Deputy Director Future Regulation

Robert Bradburne – Chief Scientist and Director of the Chief Scientist’s Group

• John Collins – Deputy Director Evidence, Assessment and Evaluation
• Glenn Watts – Deputy Director Research
• Vacant – Deputy Director Monitoring Insight and Innovation

David Dangerfield - Director Strategy and Programmes

• Karen Williams – Deputy Director Change Implementation
• Karen Williams – Deputy Director Strategy and Business Management
• Gemma Sweet – Deputy Director Engagement and External Affairs

Tony Grayling and Jennie Donovan – Director Nature and Place

• Vacant – Deputy Director Planning and Place
• Kevin Austin– Deputy Director Fisheries and Nature
• Vacant – Deputy Director Agriculture

Helen Wakeham – Director Water

• Alan Cansdale – Deputy Director Water Industry Regulation Transformation
• Richard Thompson – Deputy Director Water Resources
• Vacant – Deputy Director Water Quality and Investment
• Anne Dacey – Deputy Director Operations Catchment Services
• Judy Proctor – Deputy Director Water Regulation
• Jenni Balmer – Deputy Director Water Futures

Sam Lumb – Director Transformation

5. Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM)

5.1 Caroline Douglass – Executive Director

Julie Foley – Director FCRM Strategy and National Adaptation

• Harry Walton – Deputy Director Economics, Appraisal and Flood and Coastal Research and Chief Economist
• Ben Plummer – Deputy Director Strategy
• Jonathan Day – Deputy Director Risk Assessment
• Steven Tupper – Deputy Director Surface Water and Pipeline Planning

John Russon – Director Portfolio Management and Assurance

• Mark Garratt – Deputy Director Improvements, Digital and Skills
• Dan Bond – Deputy Director Portfolio Management Office
• Stuart Allen – Deputy Director Regulation and Assurance

Ian Hodge – Chief Engineer, Director Asset Management and Engineering

• Tony Andryszewski – Deputy Director Engineering and Technical Assurance
• Josie Bateman – Deputy Director Asset Operations and Improvements
• Andrew Pearce – Deputy Director Asset Management Systems

Steve Moore – Director of Operations, Major Projects and Programmes Delivery

• Annemieke Hartman Jemmett – Deputy Director Innovation Delivery Group
• Katharine Matthews and Alice Mayne – Deputy Director Programme Contract Management
• Jessie Curnow – Deputy Director National Environmental Assessment and Sustainability (NEAS)
• Jennie Cooper – Deputy Director Commercial and Framework Management
• Chris Wilson – Deputy Director Portfolio Delivery Office
• Jo Emberson Wines – Deputy Director Senior Programme Director
• Crystal Moore – Deputy Director Infrastructure Industry Innovation Partnership (i3P)
• Claire Bell – Deputy Director Senior Programme Director
• Arash Khojinian – Deputy Director Senior Programme Director

6. Local Operations

6.1 Sarah Chare – Executive Director

Sue Longstone – Director Operations North

• Jamie Fletcher – Area Director for the North East
• Carol Holt – Area Director for Cumbria and Lancashire
• Mike Dugher – Area Director for Yorkshire
• Stewart Mounsey – Area Director for Yorkshire
• Ian Crewe – Area Director for Greater Manchester, Merseyside and Cheshire
• Catherine Saxon – Improving Regulation
• Dafydd Evans – Deputy Director, Regulatory Delivery

Simon Hawkins – Director Operations South East and East

• Charlotte Wood – Area Director for London
• Graham Verrier – Area Director for East Anglia
• Sadia Moeed – Area Director for East Anglia
• Anna Burns – Area Director for Thames
• Sally Harvey – Area Director for Kent, South London and East Sussex
• Chris Wilson – Area Director for Hertfordshire and North London
• Helen Todd – Deputy Director Environment, Place and Infrastructure

Norman Robinson – Director Operation Midlands

• Leigh Edlin – Area Director for Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire
• Louise Cresswell – Area Director for East Midlands
• Gary Bywater – Area Director for East Midlands
• Marc Lidderth – Area Director for West Midlands (West)
• Ian Jones – Area Director for West Midlands (East)

Phil Lodge – Director Operations South and South West

• Ian Withers – Area Director for Wessex
• Mark Rice – Area Director for Devon, Cornwall and Isles of Scilly
• Simon Moody – Area Director for Solent and South Downs
• Bryan Hemmings – Deputy Director

Paul Clements – Director Incident Management and Resilience

• Kate Marks – Deputy Director Digital Services
• Jon Goldie – Deputy Director Preparedness and Recovery
• Mark Bowers – Deputy Director Readiness and Response
• Anna Kendall – Deputy Director Strategy, Service and Investment
• Louise Cooke – Deputy Director Evidence and Risk
• Chris MacGregor – Deputy Director Incident Management Transformation

Malcolm Lythgo – Director of Operations, Regulation, Monitoring and Customer

• Jo Larmour – Deputy Director National Enforcement Service
• Faye Charlesworth – Deputy Director Permitting Service
• Simon Padley – Deputy Director National Monitoring
• Alison Matthews – Deputy Director Operations Regulatory Services

Contact details

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For changes, email the Organisational Governance team: OrgBusinessBoard@environment-agency.gov.uk.

Issue date: April 2024

Next update: July 2024