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Environment Agency organisation structure

Updated 10 October 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

  • Rob Sutton – Deputy Director People and Inclusion
  • Craig Martin – Deputy Director Chief Pensions Officer
  • Daniel Hutley – Deputy Director Health, Safety and Wellbeing
  • Rachel Jones – Deputy Director Assurance and Risk
  • Phil Armstrong – Deputy Director Portfolio Implementation
  • 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

Luke Farrington – Director of Corporate and National Services

  • Lisa Harriss – Deputy Director Estates
  • Becky Hibbert – Deputy Director Sustainable Business
  • Dale Eynon – Deputy Director Defra Group Fleet Services
  • Jo Price – Deputy Director Corporate Management, Assurance and Security
  • Mark Davis – Deputy Director Contact Centre Services

Matt Cornford – Director of Strategy

  • Harry Leeder – Deputy Director Governance and Engagement
  • Andy Wilkinson – Deputy Director Future Funding
  • Chris Paul – Deputy Director Strategy, Planning and Performance
  • Chris Davis – Deputy Director Communications
  • Vacant – Deputy Director Strategy Team

Kate Marks – Director of Service Transformation

  • Stuart Homann – Deputy Director Data, Digital and IT
  • Van Griffiths – 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
  • 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
  • Alan Cansdale – Deputy Director Enforcement
  • 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 and Sam Lumb – 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

  • Claire Porter – Deputy Director Planning and Place
  • Kevin Austin– Deputy Director Fisheries and Nature
  • Nicola Riley – Deputy Director Agriculture and Land
  • Jenni Balmer – Deputy Director Nature Recovery

Helen Wakeham – Director Water

  • Richard Thompson – Deputy Director Water Resources
  • Leonore Frear – Deputy Director Water Quality and Investment
  • Stewart Mounsey – Deputy Director Operations Catchment Services
  • Judy Proctor – Deputy Director Water Industry Regulation
  • Anne Dacey – Deputy Director Water Futures

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
  • James Brameld – 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

Josie Bateman – Director of Innovation, Systems and Services

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
  • Neil Longden – Area Director for Yorkshire South West
  • 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
  • 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
  • Cat Fuller and Simon Moody – Area Director for Solent and South Downs
  • Bryan Hemmings – Deputy Director

Paul Clements – Director Incident Management and Resilience

  • Peter Connolly – 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 Environmental Crime Unit
  • Faye Charlesworth – Deputy Director Permitting
  • Simon Padley – Deputy Director National Monitoring
  • Vacant – Deputy Director Environmental Markets and Regulation
  • Alison Matthews – Deputy Director Operations Regulatory Services

Contact details

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

Issue date: October 2024

Next update: January 2025