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* Transparency data ENVIRONMENT AGENCY ORGANISATION STRUCTURE Updated 23 April 2025 APPLIES TO ENGLAND CONTENTS * 1. Philip Duffy – Chief Executive * 2. Alan Lovell – Chair * 3. Strategy,
Transformation and Assurance * 4. Environment and Business * 5. Flood and Coastal Risk Management (FCRM) * 6. Local Operations * Contact details Print this page © Crown copyright 2025 This
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https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/environment-agency-organisation-structure-chart/environment-agency-organisation-structure 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 For enquiries, contact our National Customer Contact Centre on 03708 506 506 or email: [email protected]. For
changes, email the Organisational Governance team: [email protected]. Issue date: April 2025 Next update: July 2025 Back to top