Chris Newsome

Chris has extensive experience across large, regulated infrastructure businesses and over 40 years’ experience within the water industry (at Yorkshire Water, Kelda Water and more recently Anglian Water). He has a passion for carbon reduction and innovation and was awarded an OBE for services to Civil Engineering and Carbon Reduction in 2017.

Chris is a member of the Government’s Green Construction Board and Chairman of the Infrastructure Working Group driving down carbon in infrastructure assets. He is Past President and Board Member of the Institute of Asset Management, a director of UK Water Partnership Limited and board adviser for Barhale Limited.

Chris has a BSc in Civil Engineering from Loughborough University, an MBA from the Manchester Business School and a post-graduate diploma in Structural Engineering from the University of Bradford.