Environment Agency organisation structure
Updated 1 July 2024
Applies to England
1. Philip Duffy – Chief Executive
2. Alan Lovell – Chair
3. Strategy, Transformation and Assurance
3.1 Tamara Bruck – Executive Director
Sarah Cook – 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
- Vacant – 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
- Jo Price – Deputy Director Corporate Management, Assurance and Security
- Andy Wilkinson – Deputy Director Future Funding
- Luke Farrington – Deputy Director Data and Digital Transformation
Matt Cornford – Director of Strategy
4. Environment and Business
4.1 John Leyland – Executive Director
Georgina Collins – Director Regulated Industry
- Steve Molyneux – Deputy Director Waste and Resources Regulation
- Kathryn Richardson – 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
- Gillian 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
- Owen Lewis – Deputy Director Monitoring Insight and Innovation
David Dangerfield - Director Strategy and Programmes
- Karen Williams – Deputy Director Change Implementation
- Adam Cookson – 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
- Nicola Riley – Deputy Director Agriculture and Land
Helen Wakeham – Director Water
- Alan Cansdale – Deputy Director Water Industry Regulation Transformation
- Richard Thompson – Deputy Director Water Resources
- Leonore Frear – 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 (East)
- Sadia Moeed – Area Director for East Anglia (West)
- 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
- 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, National Regulation and Monitoring
- Jo Larmour – Deputy Director National Enforcement Service
- Faye Charlesworth – Deputy Director National Permitting
- Simon Padley – Deputy Director National Monitoring
- Alison Matthews – Deputy Director Operations Regulatory Services
Contact details
For enquiries, contact our National Customer Contact Centre on 03708 506 506 or email: enquiries@environment-agency.gov.uk.
For changes, email the Organisational Governance team: OrganisationalGovernance@environment-agency.gov.uk.
Issue date: July 2024
Next update: October 2024