Chair

Chris Train OBE

Biography

Chris Train, OBE is a Non-Executive Member of the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) Board.

Chris has over 38 years’ experience in the Energy, Utilities, Regulation and Infrastructure sectors. He has held chief executive, senior project management, operations and business development roles at Cadent, National Grid, Transco and Lattice. He has also sat on various European and international committees covering subjects such as regulation, commercial and infrastructure development.

Chris has been chair of the NDA Project and Programmes Committee which oversees a significant part of the NDA’s annual budget of over £3 billion.

Alongside serving on the NDA Board, Chris is the Non-Executive Chair of South East Water Limited and Clean Power Hydrogen (CPH2).

He was appointed as Sellafield Ltd Chair on 1 July 2024.

Previous roles in government

  • Non-executive Director
  • Interim Chair
  • Non-executive Director