Dr Colin Fenn
Chair, Water Resources Panel
CIWEM
Colin Fenn has over 30 years experience in the water sector, in research, consultancy, managerial and business development capacities. He now runs his own consultancy company, CFonstream, having previously been the Managing Director of HR Wallingford Ltd and of WS Atkins Water.
He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at Oxford Brookes University and a Non-Exec Director of two companies, Hydro-Logic Ltd and EnviroGene Ltd.
Colin is the Chairman of the Chartered Institution of Water & Environmental Management’s Water Resources Panel, a member of the main committee of the British Hydrological Society and of the editorial board of the Institution of Civil Engineer’s Water Management Journal, and was the inaugural commentator for the ICE’s State of the Nation reports on Water & Wastewater, and on Flood Management.
Colin has published and presented extensively on water and flood management issues. He has provided expert evidence at a number of public inquiries, and has provided advice and consultancy services to numerous parties, including many water companies, the Environment Agency, Defra, UKWIR, the National Audit Office, the Greater London Authority, the Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee, WWF-UK, the World Commission on Dams, and (for the 2004 Olympics) the Athens Water Company.
Colin is the Chairman of the Chartered Institution of Water & Environmental Management’s Water Resources Panel, a member of the main committee of the British Hydrological Society and of the editorial board of the Institution of Civil Engineer’s Water Management Journal, and was the inaugural commentator for the ICE’s State of the Nation reports on Water & Wastewater, and on Flood Management.
Colin has published and presented extensively on water and flood management issues. He has provided expert evidence at a number of public inquiries, and has provided advice and consultancy services to numerous parties, including many water companies, the Environment Agency, Defra, UKWIR, the National Audit Office, the Greater London Authority, the Parliamentary Environmental Audit Committee, WWF-UK, the World Commission on Dams, and (for the 2004 Olympics) the Athens Water Company.

