Tony is an experienced regulatory economist and strategist with over twenty-five years’ experience in senior corporate, consultancy and regulatory roles.

Tony is presently Chief Strategy & Regulation Officer at Cadent Gas Ltd - the largest of the UK’s gas distribution businesses - where he leads the company’s decarbonisation strategy and regulatory interface with Ofgem the energy sector’s regulator.  

Prior to Cadent, Tony was Director of Strategy & Regulation at Severn Trent Water where he performed a very similar role - and was on the Severn Trent Plc Board for eight years.  He has previously worked as an economic consultant in the utilities sector for Stone & Webster and London Economics with extensive international/developing country experience - as well as Ofwat’s Chief Economist.  

Tony is a passionate environmentalist and conservationist and is Chairman of the National Forest Company and a Trustee of the Soil Association. He is also on the board of Flood Re and lectures on regulation at the London School of Economics.