This webinar will review recent practical experience of systems approaches to regional and subregional planning for water.

In addition to this, the speakers will compare approaches taken for Water Resources South East’s draft regional plan and for the Greater London Authority’s Subregional Integrated Water Management Strategy both of which have sought to pioneer the application of systems thinking at scale. They will look at what has been achieved, the challenges that emerged and put forward ideas for future work.

About our speakers

Brendan leads the systems group for Mott MacDonald’s Water Consultancy Division, applying systems thinking to strategic national projects such as Water Resources South East, Anglian region’s Strategic Resource Options and London’s Subregional Integrated Water Management Strategy.

 He holds degrees in Civil and Environmental Engineering and Geography having undertaken a PhD on environmental institutions in contexts of social change. He was co-editor of the Oxford Handbook of Food Water and Society. Previous work incudes leading the UN’s environmental response to conflict and displacement in Sudan. 

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. 

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.