Time

12:15pm - 1:15pm

Venue

VIRTUAL | WEBINAR | UK

Cost

Free to attend

Hosted by the CIWEM Presidential Team and ADEPT 

Event description

This jointly hosted webinar between CIWEM and ADEPT will focus on the aligned presidential themes of CIWEM and ADEPT for 2024/2025 considering the importance of building resilient systems, organisations and communities and adapting at pace to climate change.

Our speakers will explore how professionals across the water, environmental, and local government sectors can work together collaboratively to make place-based decisions that create impactful and sustainable solutions to the climate emergency challenges that we face.

The webinar will raise awareness of the vital contributions of local authority place directors in shaping the places where we live, work, and thrive and discuss different perspectives on tackling the climate resilience challenges we all face.

CIWEM and ADEPT members and non-members are welcome to attend this event.


Part of the CIWEM Climate Emergency and Adaption series.

Register for 6 March 2025

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Hannah Burgess | CIWEM President and Regional Delivery Director (Flood, Coast and Maritime) | Binnies

CIWEM President Hannah Burgess is a fellow of CIWEM and a chartered water and environmental manager. She has worked in flood and coastal management for 21 years and has witnessed first-hand the devastating impacts of flooding and coastal change. For her day job, she is a regional delivery director for the Binnies UK flood, coast and maritime business (part of the RSK Group). Hannah has volunteered for CIWEM since 2005 and was past chair of the Rivers and Coastal Group and the West Midlands Branch. She was a founding member of the Women in FCERM initiative and the Chair of the RSK Women’s Network. In summer 2024, Hannah also won the RSK Group People Award for Network Builder of the Year.

Ann Carruthers | ADEPT President and Director of Environment and Transport | Leicestershire County Council

Ann Carruthers is Director of Environment and Transport for Leicestershire County Council responsible for all highways, transport, environment and waste services. Before joining Leicestershire CC, Ann worked with a number of local authorities across Scotland and England covering the highways, transport, environment and growth agendas. Ann also spent a number of years as National Travel Demand Manager with Transit New Zealand responsible for introducing sustainable transport options and new ways of working across New Zealand’s state highway system. Ann is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Highways and Transportation, a member of the Highways Sector Council and Chair of Midlands Highway Alliance+, a collaboration of 36 local highway authorities providing routes to market, sharing best practice and driving up standards across our highways work.

Angela Jones | 1st Vice President and Chair of ADEPT North of England Board and Director of Thriving Places | Westmorland & Furness Council

Angela Jones is the Director of Thriving Places at Westmorland & Furness Council. Angela has worked in a mixture of unitary and county councils, across the North West and Wales and has senior leadership experience across place-based services including Economic Development, Highways and Transport, Flood Risk Management, Climate a and Nature, Planning, Waste and Community Services.. Angela has significant experience of leading and managing frontline services and complex multi-disciplinary teams, with a robust track record in developing and maintaining strong working relationships with staff, members and external stakeholders.

Wendy Brooks |  ​Head of Environment | Norfolk Council

Wendy Brooks has a lifelong passion for nature conservation and wildlife. She has a degree in the Biology of Plants and Animals from Newcastle University. Her early career was spent working for Natural England and its predecessors, across the East of England, East Midlands and Nationally.

She joined the Environment Agency in 1999 as the Regional Conservation Manager for Anglian Region. She moved onto to develop policy as a National Flood and Coastal Risk Manager including the strategic implementation of the Flood and Water Management Act 2010, delivering the Floods Directive across England and Wales. She was instrumental in developing the evidence and policy for ‘working with natural process’ now known as Natural Flood Management. Wendy developed the National Flood and Coastal Risk Strategy for England which provides the strategic direction until 2100.

Wendy joined Norfolk County Council in October 2023 as the Head of Environment, a key service delivering across natural and historic environment, protected landscapes, trails and active travel.

Wendy is a Non-Executive Director of Water Resources East, and a Trustee of the charities the Chartered Institute of Water and Environmental Management (CIWEM) and Buglife. She is a Fellow of CIWEM and a chartered environmentalist.

Paul Shaffer | Director of Projects | CIWEM

Paul Shaffer is Director of Innovation and Delivery at CIWEM, where his work spans opportunities and challenges covering water and environmental management. His work bridges policy, science and the delivery of good practice. He has coordinated the development of national initiatives to support the development and sharing of good practice for surface water management, integrated water management, flood resilience and Nature-based Solutions, particularly Sustainable Drainage Systems.

Booking and joining information

This event is open to members and non-members of CIWEM. The webinar is hosted on the Zoom platform and will be recorded.

Please register your place by clicking on the registration button. Non-members who have not registered for the CIWEM system can create an account on the booking page in order to reserve their place. This should not take more than two minutes.

If you have any questions about your booking or would like to cancel your attendance, please contact barbara.woods@ciwem.org.

Please note that registrations will close at 9:00am the day of the event. If you have not registered before that time, unfortunately we cannot add you to the event.

If you have any queries about this talk, please contact Nathan Gore at nathan.gore@ciwem.org

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