Our Environmental Scrutiny Panel

Our Environmental Scrutiny Panel

Our Environmental Scrutiny Panel is a group of stakeholders that reflect the interests of the environment. 

We established our independent panel to provide constructive challenge on our environmental ambition and performance and report back to Ofwat. It works in parallel to the Customer Scrutiny Panel. 

Our members

Alison Thompson

Independent Chair, Environmental Scrutiny Panel

Alison is an experienced Chair, Non-Executive Director and Executive in the utilities, infrastructure and sustainability sectors. She works across both the private and public sectors championing the long-term interests of citizens and the environment. Currently, she is Co-Chair of SES Water’s Customer and Environmental Scrutiny Panel; Member of Pennon Plc's Customer Challenge Group, Water Share +; Cambridge University Faculty as Senior Associate, Lecturer, and Academic Tutor of Executive Education in Sustainable Business, at Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership; Associate Mentor for Executives focusing on diversity and inclusion at EA Inclusion and Director of Welcome Innovation Ltd.


Before this, she held two non-executive public appointments with regulators. She was Chair of the Programme and Investment Committee overseeing efficient and risk-based investment in the local communities' best interests across the whole of the Southern Region as Deputy Chair of the Regional Flood and Coastal Committee on behalf of the Environment Agency.


She also served as Consumer Advocate for the Consumer Council for Water working with all the water companies in the South East. Alison's executive career began at the House of Lords and subsequently has involved strategy, policy and delivery roles with Chime Communications Group, the Environment Agency, National Parks England, Anglian Water, and VisitEngland. Most recently she was Director of Business Transformation at Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership.


She is a Fellow of Forum for the Future and a Member of Chapter Zero.  She holds two master-level degrees in Leadership for Sustainability and Responsible Tourism and a degree in Environmental Science and Spanish.

Trevor Bishop

Water Resources South East (WRSE)

Trevor has been Director at WRSE since January 2019.

As Director for WRSE Trevor's key responsibilities include strategy and policy for the development of a long-term Regional Resilience Plan across six statutory water companies in the South East of England serving some 20 million people. Trevor is also a Visiting Professor at the University of Exeter.

Prior to his current role Trevor worked at Ofwat, the economic regulator, for three years on long term assignment from the Environment Agency. At Ofwat Trevor's specific areas of work included resilience, environmental delivery, catchment approaches, clean/wastewater planning and aspects of PR19. At the Environment Agency Trevor was Deputy Director of Water Resources which included all aspects of water resource regulation, strategy and operations.

Prior to the Environment Agency Trevor worked for over 10 years in the Water Industry with a wide range of both strategic and operational roles in several water companies. Key areas of responsibility included leakage, customer services, and asset performance. Trevor also supports international engagement and is currently a member of the International Water Associations Strategic Council.

Steve Crabb

Independent Chair

Steve is a specialist in consumer affairs, with a particular focus on customers in vulnerable circumstances. In addition to chairing SES Water’s Customer Scrutiny Panel, he is the independent chair of a voluntary code for energy companies which aims to ensure vulnerable customers are safeguarded and that companies work to continuously improve the services they offer. He has previously held senior roles at British Gas, the Alzheimer’s Society and the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, and he is an award-winning writer and editor. Apart from his family, his passions are local history, football and walking in the countryside.

Emma Langford

The Environment Agency

Emma is a Principal Account Officer for the Environment Agency. She has worked at the Environment Agency for 20 years, holding roles in front line regulation, incident management and water quality planning.  Particularly focused on working with the Water Industry to make environmental improvements as part of Ofwat’s Price Reviews.  With an ambition to work with others to make our rivers healthier for the people who live and work near them.  Emma’s main areas of interest are water quality modelling and strategic environmental and wastewater planning.

Emma also works with other water companies in the South East of England and aims to support shared learning to help deliver the best outcomes for people and the environment.

She is a Chartered Member of Institute of Water and Environmental Managers and Charter Environmentalist and with a BSc and MSc in Aquatic Resource Management 

Sarah Holloway

Independent 

Sarah Holloway is an independent advisor on sustainability strategy and purpose-driven leadership, working with senior teams to define their organisation's place in a sustainable world. She’s helped some of the world’s best-known businesses drive transformative change, including Danone, Ella’s Kitchen, C&A and Severn Trent.

Sarah is a former director of sustainability communications agency Futerra and culture change consultancy Kin&Co, and has held senior sustainability roles at Unilever, Tesco and TUI.

Sarah is the author of ‘Networks for Sustainability’, a guide for leaders on how to embed sustainability into their organisations, and a regular guest lecturer at Imperial College London. She holds a Master’s degree in Leadership for Sustainable Development from Forum for the Future.

Bella Davies

South East Rivers Trust

Bella is Co-CEO of the South East Rivers Trust, an environmental charity dedicated to achieving healthy thriving rivers for people and wildlife in the South East of England. The Trust takes a holistic approach to river catchment management and works with many stakeholders and partners to deliver evidence-led action.

Bella has worked in the academic and charity sectors for 20 years and has held positions on a number of landscape, water and nature conservation committees. She has an MSc in Environmental Assessment and Management and a PhD in managing landscapes to protect freshwater ecology. She is a Trustee of the national Rivers Trust.

Sarah Jane Chimbwandira

Surrey Wildlife Trust

Sarah Jane has worked for Surrey Wildlife Trust for over 11 years, latterly as Director of Biodiversity, before becoming CEO in February 2019. She has brought a wealth of successful partnerships and projects experience to her role – she was the co-founder and Director of the Surrey Nature Partnership, co-authored the ‘Natural Capital Investment Plan for Surrey’ and is a Trustee of the Surrey Hills Society and Ecosystems Knowledge Network.

 During 2019, SWT’s 60^th anniversary year, Sarah Jane re-focused on the core mission to increase biodiversity and engage people in the natural environment. She is leading SWT’s new 5 year strategy ‘Restoring Surrey’s Nature’ to create a living landscape with connective hedgerows, rivers, nature reserves and green spaces across Surrey and wants to seize the opportunity to secure a strong zero carbon, nature based recovery. 

Dr Ana Maria Millan 

CCWater

Dr Ana Maria Millan is a Policy Manager at the Consumer Council for Water (CCW). She has worked in the water sector for over 20 years in academia, consultancy and in policy making. Ana’s main interests are demand management, climate change, the water environment and helping people to understand why saving water matters.

She also works with another company in the South East of England to represent water consumers through her work.

She is a Civil Engineer with an MSc and PhD in water resources management.

Stephanie Hurry

Waterwise

Stephanie Hurry is the Head of Water Efficiency Engagement at Waterwise, an independent not-for-profit focused on reducing water consumption in the UK. In this role she manages a small team running campaigns, behaviour change, social research, business development, communications and marketing. Prior to this role, Stephanie worked at Affinity Water in a variety of roles including leading the water efficiency programme.

Stephanie has ten years experience working in the water industry and has previously won the Claire Ridgewell Award for her 'outstanding contribution to water efficiency'. She also runs her own campaigning Twitter page 'Water Saving Steff' (@SteffWSS) where she talks all things water, the environment and other topics close to her heart. Stephanie has a BA Hons Degree in English Literature.

Cat Moncrieff

Independent

Cat is a Charted Water and Environment Manager with over 15 years' experience in the water and environment sector, working across several NGOs including WWF, CDP, The South East Rivers Trust and now CIWEM as their Policy Engagement Manager. She has experience working with corporates and policy makers to bring about systemic change in how water is managed - both globally and in the UK, as well as experience delivering nature restoration projects with local stakeholders. Cat is a trustee of the Chiltern Society and chairs the Chiltern Streams Project.