Our People

Technical Director

Jane has extensive experience in waste characterisation, minimisation, recycling, risk, and resource efficiency studies. This informs policy and business decisions for environmental regulators, industrial waste producers, waste management companies and their trade bodies.

Technical Director

Nabil leads the technical team and laboratory services at WRc's National Centre for Environmental Toxicology (NCET). He has extensive experience researching toxicants including persistent organic pollutants, pesticides, heavy metals and pharmaceutical chemicals.

Technical Director

Catherine's work is in environmental geoscience and hydrology, including impact and risk assessment, for a wide range of infrastructure and development projects in upland and remote areas within the UK and in Europe.

Principal Consultant

Mark specialises in the development and use of asset resilience techniques to understand operational and business risks in the water and gas sectors. He consults on projects spanning potable water storage optimisation and CFD modelling to cost and carbon modelling.

Director of ESG

Kit works to bring technical experts and strategic thinkers together to provide sustainability services. This includes quantifying business risks, bolstering innovation, and navigating new regulatory environments, as well as carbon accounting and supply chain auditing.

Principal Consultant

Andy's expertise covers all technologies of flow measurement across clean and wastewater applications. He designs and performs test and evaluation exercises against requirements on meters, and has been closely involved with the EA's MCERTS scheme for water monitoring.

Principal Consultant

Leo's expertise lies in technology and innovation in the water sector, with projects including technology transfer between water and gas sectors. He also delivers guidance on applications and standards, and performs technology testing, approval and certification for our WRc Approved scheme.

Principal Consultant

Karen's expertise lies in river impact assessment and integrated catchment management, including river water quality modelling using WRc's SIMPOL. Her work involves determining urban pollution impacts on receiving water quality, as well as water policy and application.

Principal Consultant

Nick is a C.WEM and C.Eng specialising in sewers: inspection technologies; deterioration mechanisms; collapse analysis; hydraulic modelling; and cost analysis of flooding schemes. He was a major contributor to the SRM Sewer Risk Management website Sewer Renovation Design Guide.

Principal Consultant

Kevin's expertise lies in municipal and industrial water treatment processes, specialising in operational & strategic risk management and substantial multi-site operational management. His work also helps clients to mitigate odour, optimise micropollutant removal solutions and discover opportunities for water reuse and wastewater recycling.

Head of Wastewater Infrastructure

Paul has over 20 years’ experience in the water industry, relating to technical delivery of sewerage studies, strategic planning, asset management and the regulatory process. He is also heavily involved in the WRcCSO project. 

Principal Microbiologist

Austen leads our Microbiology services and is heavily involved in projects consulting on water quality and Water Safety Planning for various water sector assets, as well as advising on the environmental and health impacts of contaminants in drinking and groundwater with our toxicology team.

Principal Engineer

James has extensive experience working in the water industry, encompassing all aspects of water supply and distribution. He leads WRc's engineers in helping water utilities to analyse network-wide performance and optimise networks using modelling, contributing to leakage reduction.

Head of Business Development

Dominic works within our Technical Services division. His main areas of expertise lie in distribution water quality, discolouration, asset management and pipe condition assessment (including SmartBall®, Sahara® and Pipe Crawler).

Principal Consultant

Wastewater flooding and wastewater pollution specialist Peter has an extensive background in sewer flow surveys, pipeline condition assessment and inspection, and rehabilitation using innovative techniques to determine remaining asset life. He is also heavily involved in WRcCSO design and WRc's Fine to Flush testing.

Senior Consultant

Justine is heavily involved in projects helping various clients meet their leakage targets and better plan their water resources. She specialises in utilising a number of digitising and geoprocessing techniques (e.g. GIS) for leakage and other environmental projects.

Senior Consultant

Paul has extensive experience in both industry and academia specialising in waste and resource management, energy and mass balance modelling, life cycle inventory analyses, environmental impact assessment, and more. He leads WRc's in-house waste laboratory services.

Business Development Lead

Pat leads our Non-Destructive Testing and Inspection services to examine characteristics such as condition, lifespan, corrosion, erosion, and wall thickness of infrastructure assets such as pipelines, tanks, and vessels of various materials and sizes. He also works closely with our team providing leak detection techniques.

Project Manager

Gosia is responsible for delivering projects to time, budget and to a high standard of quality. Recent projects she has managed relate to: invert corrosion, efficient pumping, CCTV and manhole rehabilitation, blockage formation and impact of rainfall. Gosia is also the main author of the Sewer Condition Inspection Specification and Guidance publication.

Technical Manager

Anthony specialises in advising on, developing, and implementing innovative techniques and solutions for pipeline condition assessment, inspection and leak detection (including Sahara®, SmartBall®, and PipeDiver®), as part of WRc's wider goal to help reduce leakage.

Consultant Scientist

Donna is a C.WEM and C.Sci with skills covering Urban Pollution Management, rainfall data modelling (STORMPAC), river and coastal water quality modelling (SIMPOL ICM, GIS SIMCAT-SAGIS) and model development and software testing. She was also involved in the development of WRc's online pesticides database.

Consultant Engineer

Jeremy's expertise lies in the modelling of systems, processes and hydraulics at sewage and industrial effluent treatment works. He is the lead developer of WRc's software tools for dynamic wastewater plant modelling (STOAT) and design (Plan-It STOAT), and helped develop WRc's cost and carbon modelling software (TR61) and catchment-scale modelling software (SIMPOL ICM).

Consultant Engineer

David is a chartered chemical engineer with extensive experience consulting on projects covering water, wastewater and sludge treatment and recycle/ disposal, odour management (including leading our User Group), and developed our cost & carbon emissions model (TR61).

Consultant Engineer

A civil engineer and experienced project manager, Jo specialises in asset resilience, pipeline engineering and leakage management. She provided technical input to the development of risk assessment methodologies for the SRM Procedure as well as approaches to assess the risk of service failure in water distribution.

Head of Client Insight

Margarita promotes effective sharing of business information about our clients and partners within different communities to support decision making. Up-to-date information is used to support business development and allows WRc to improve our productivity and sustainably grow our business.