You are invited to the next event in our series of Water Climate Discussions at 9am BST on Thursday 2 September:
Sector experts will lead our discussion on the topic of finance as it relates to the water sector and the climate.
They will also be asking you some big questions:
- Can all future generations have the reliable services that many of us enjoy today?
- Where should the balance lie between current and future customers in financing the investment that will be required?
- How can we ensure that the industry has the right culture in place, and the skills they will need, for the future?
- How can regulators support the industry (by removing any barriers to innovation, for example)?
We’ll be publishing your responses in a report that will shape the Water Climate Call to Action which we aim to publish as an output of the conference in time for COP26.
Alan Sutherland
Chief Executive, Water Industry Commission for Scotland
Since his appointment in 1999 Alan has driven substantial improvements in efficiency and service for Scotland’s water and wastewater customers. He put in place a competitive non-household retail market in 2008, a world first at the time.
Unswervingly committed to a customer-centric approach, Alan is working with sector stakeholders to engender greater candour, transparency and collaboration. Alan believes in sharing experience and expertise and, through the Scottish Government’s Hydro Nation initiative, supports international capacity-building projects that facilitate the development of economic regulation and of more sustainable water industries.
Alan’s previous roles were in management consultancy and in the investment banking industry.
Jacob Tomkins
Co-founder and CTO, The Water Retail Company
Jacob is the co-founder and CTO of The Water Retail Company. He is also the founder of The European Water Technology Accelerator which helps scale and promote water innovation. Jacob trained as a civil engineer with degrees from UCL and Imperial. He worked as an academic, was water lead for the National Farmers' Union and freshwater advisor at Water UK. He set up and ran Waterwise the water efficiency NGO. He has developed EU water legislation and chaired a UK Govt task force on resilience in the water sector. He was made and honorary Prof at Exeter University and has an OBE for services to water efficiency.
Tseguereda Abraham
Head of Policy and Sector Strengthening, WaterAid Ethiopia
Tseguereda Abraham is a Policy Advocacy Expert with long-standing experience on advocacy strategy development and implementation, WASH Campaigns delivery, Program management, and Country program leadership with more than 12 years of experience in different International NGOs: WaterAid, OXFAM, CARE especially in the WASH and Livelihood sectors.
Martin Currie will be hosting the discussion, and posing your questions to our experts. ...read more about Martin
Dr Martin Currie is an independent potable water quality and treatment specialist with Aqueum. He founded andeye at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, in order to improve the quality of online conferences and help decarbonise and democratise conferences post-COVID. andeye are based just south Glasgow and are providing the platform for this discussion.
Martin lived in Mauritius prior to his return to Scotland, working as an independent water consultant and photographer. Prior to that he lead Atkins’ Middle East Water business from a Dubai base. This included taking the water lead on a number of sustainable city master plans. After a year of consultancy, following his PhD in water treatment, his first long-term role was as a Process Engineer with Thames Water, culminating in the Lead Process Engineer role on their Upper Thames Major Resource Development project.
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