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Environment Agency organisation structure

Updated 23 April 2025

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 People and Assurance

• 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

Laura Milton – Director of Legal and Audit Services

• 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

Chris Austin – Director of Corporate and National Services

• Luke Farrington – 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

• Verity Zurita – Deputy Director, Governance and Engagement
• Andy Wilkinson – Deputy Director, Future Funding
• Chris Paul – Deputy Director, Strategy, Planning and Performance
• Chris Davis – Deputy Director, Communications
• Alice Mayne – Deputy Director, Strategy
• Harry Walton – Deputy Director, Economics Team

Germaine Faulkner – Director of Service Transformation

• Stuart Homann – Deputy Director, Data, Digital and IT
• Van Griffiths and Louise Cooke – Deputy Director, Data and Digital Transformation
• Phil Armstrong – Deputy Director, Transformation

4. Environment and Business

4.1 John Leyland – Executive Director

Georgina Collins – Director, Regulated Industry

• Steve Molyneux – Deputy Director, Waste and Resources Regulation
• Chris Jenkins – 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
• Jim Ratcliffe – Deputy Director, Nuclear Regulation
• Andy Mayall – Deputy Director, Nuclear and RSR Strategy

Robert Bradburne – Chief Scientist and Director of the Chief Scientist’s Group

• John Collins – Deputy Director Evidence, Assessment and Evaluation
• Vacant – 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
• 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 Strategy and Adaptation

• Ben Plummer – Deputy Director, Strategic Overview
• Darsha Gill – Deputy Director, Risk Assessment and Research
• Steven Tupper – Deputy Director, Pipeline and Investment

John Russon – Director, Portfolio Management, Assurance and Commercial

• Dan Bond – Deputy Director, Portfolio Management
• Jonathan Day – Deputy Director, Portfolio Reporting and Insights
• Chris Wilson – Deputy Director, Commercial and Framework Management

Ian Hodge – Chief Engineer, Director Standards, Asset Management and Engineering

• Tony Andryszewski – Deputy Director, Engineering and Standards
• Lindsey Sayner – Deputy Director, Asset Operation Services
• Andrew Pearce – Deputy Director, Asset Management Systems

Vacant – Director, Project and Programmes Delivery

• Annemieke Hartman Jemmett – Deputy Director, East and South-East (IDG)
• Claire Bell – Deputy Director, North
• Jo Emberson Wines – Deputy Director, Programme Director (T2100)
• Vacant – Deputy Director, Senior Programme Director (RTS)
• Ed Uden – Deputy Director, Complex Projects
• Vacant - Deputy Director, Midlands and South West

Josie Bateman – Director Innovation, Systems and Services

• Crystal Moore – Deputy Director, Innovation and Continuous Improvement
• Louise Cooke – Deputy Director, Digital, Data and IT
• Mark Garrat – Deputy Director, Business Engagement and Capability
• Lee Meaden – Deputy Director, Environmental Assessment and Reservoir Regulation
• Stuart Allen – Deputy Director, Asset Management Transformation
• Joe Cuthbertson – Deputy Director, Flood and Infrastructure Improvement Programme (FIIP)

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
• Martin Pope – 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

• Kate Marks – Deputy Director, Digital Services
• Mike O’Neil – Deputy Director, Preparedness and Recovery
• Mark Bowers – Deputy Director, Readiness and Response
• Gary Bywater – Deputy Director, Incident Management Transformation (IMx)
• Katherine Smith – Deputy Director, Evidence and Risk
• Vacant – 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: April 2025

Next update: July 2025