Committee Members' Biographies

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Martyn is a water chemist with over 20 years experience in the water industry. He initially worked as an analytical chemist in both clean water and wastewater laboratories before moving into various operational, water quality, management and consultancy roles, with a particular interest in improving business performance and solving problems. He is a member of the Royal Society of Chemistry, has been a member of the Water Science Forum for over 15 years, served on the committee since 2003, and is currently Chairman. He is also a member of the RSC’s Energy, Sustainability and Environment Forum.

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Richard Allan is Managing Director of Scottish Water Horizons and is responsible for delivering sustainable renewable energy for Scottish Water through wind, hydro, solar and waste recycling projects along with providing a range of other services. Richard has 19 years experience in industry.  Richard initially worked in the Whisky industry before moving into the environmental sector in 1996.  He joined East of Scotland Water in 1998 and held a number of senior management posts before becoming Chief Scientist in 2005, finally moving to Horizons in June 2011. Graduating from Strathclyde University with a degree and masters degree, Richard is also a Chartered Chemist, Chartered Biologist, Chartered Scientist and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.

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Following a Doctorate at Imperial College in Public Health Engineering, Roger has spent over 35 years experience in the water and the environment industry as an environmental chemist, initially with consultants followed by the British Standards Institution.  While in consultancy Roger had experience in both the clean water and wastewater areas but also had comprehensive experience in the field of industrial and toxic wastes.  At BSI he has managed the water quality standardization activities for 25 years covering national, European and international standardization work.  In addition Roger was responsible for the secretariat of the International standards committee on water sampling.  Currently he is team leader of the BSI Sustainability team, which covers standardization matters not only in the environmental quality areas but also sustainable issues such as carbon and water footprinting, sustainable procurement and sustainable events. 

He has been a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry for some 20 years, has been a member of the RSC Analytical Methods Committee for a number of years and joined the Water Science Forum Committee in 2008.

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Kevin is a process chemist with over 35 years experience in industry.  He initially worked as a raw materials chemist in the pharmaceutical industry gaining RSC membership via the HNC, LRSC route becoming a Fellow in 1994.  This was followed by 25 years in the water industry where Kevin became General Manager (Environment and Quality) for a UK water company. Kevin is now joint owner and director of a niche consultancy with a particular interest in the "Sustainable Use of Water". He is an Honorary lecturer at the David Livingstone Centre for Sustainability at the University of Strathclyde, with major interests in Business Strategy and the Environment plus Global Water Policy. He is currently Treasurer of the Water Science Forum.

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Ian is the clean water Laboratory Manager for Northumbrian Water and has over 15 years experience in the environmental testing industry. Following completion of his Doctorate in environmental organic analysis, he worked as an analytical chemist in both clean water and environmental labs focusing on the analysis of trace organics before moving into various operational roles within Northumbrian Water. Ian has many years of experience participating in various groups including SCA, CEN and ISO committees, focusing on environmental analysis where he is always keen to share and promote new ideas.

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John is a Post Doctoral Research Fellow in the Pennine Water Group within the Civil & structural Engineering department of the University of Sheffield. His current research interests are mostly associated with advancing the understanding and control of water supply systems and current projects involve hydraulic and water quality modelling, novel disinfection methods, relationships between distributed water age and quality, and hydrokinetic pipe cleaning techniques. Prior to this, he gained a broad water industry background with 30+ years of hands on operational and research experience of laboratory analysis, water resources treatment and distribution, waste water treatment and disposal, process chemistry control and optimisation, trade effluent management, and pollution prevention.
John is a Chartered Chemist, Chartered Scientist, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry, and a member of the RSC Environmental Chemistry, Energy Sector, and Water Science Forum groups, and has served on the Water Science Forum committee for 2 years. Additionally, he is a Chartered Water and Environmental Manger and a Fellow of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management.

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Gavin is Principal Development Scientist at STS-AS’ Water Supply Laboratory in Bridgend. His role includes dealing with development issues on behalf of STS-AS, mainly concerning the development of analytical methodologies for organic substances in addition to project management duties and heading up the organisation’s competent persons development strategy. Working alongside the Principal Research Scientist, technical management and sales teams, Gavin seeks to identify new opportunities for growth within STS, in terms of new technologies and emerging areas of interest in the field of environmental monitoring. Current projects include the development of an on-line monitor for the determination of trihalomethanes (disinfection by-products) in drinking water, in cooperation with Aqua Metrology Systems Inc. Gavin has worked in the water/environmental testing industry for over twenty-seven years and sits on ISO, RSC and SCA committees. Gavin also chairs the “Leap Best Practice” group through laboratory “Mutual Aid”. This group seeks to improve screening techniques for contaminants in potable water. He enjoys working with other chemists in the field and appreciates that chemistry is a vital science, which he is keen to promote as much as possible.

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Martin is a water quality scientist having completed 34 years with Severn Trent Water in 2006.  He is currently a member of the BSI Domestic Water Treatment working group, the Water Industry's CBRN group and on the organising committee for the Third World Contamination Emergencies Conference.  

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Ulrich Borchers studied food chemistry in Braunschweig (Germany) and obtained his PhD in water microbiology in 1993. For his doctoral thesis he worked in a research project concerning the microbial nitrate turnover in pleistocenic aquifers.

Ulrich has been working with the IWW Water Centre in Muelheim/Ruhr (Germany) since 1993, in different executive positions. Since 2002 he has been Manager of the Water Quality Department and Authorised Officer of the Water Centre. His routine lab and the R&D group comprise nearly 50 scientists from various disciplines and technical staff as well. In 2004 he was also appointed Technical Chief Executive Officer of the IWW NORD, a branch of the IWW Water Centre in Northern Germany.

The focus of Ulrich Borchers’ work is on water analysis. Furthermore, he is active in the field of organising national and international PTs for water parameters and he also has long-term experience as lecturer at the “Academy of Public Health” in Duesseldorf, Germany (education of health authorities´ staff).

He has been the Chair of several European Conferences in the field of Water Policy. Finally, Ulrich is active in the field of European (CEN) and International (ISO) standardisation of analytical methods and is involved with several activities around the implementation of European Water Directives. He has published about 48 papers in international literature and several books.

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Philippe worked as a researcher in marine geochemistry during the years 1983-1989, in particular in the framework of cooperation programmes among the University of Bordeaux (France) and the Portuguese Environment State Secretary (1984-1986), as well as with the Dutch Ministry of Public Works and Water Ways, Rijkswaterstaat (1988-1989). He obtained a PhD in oceanography in 1987 and a PhD in chemistry in 1990, both at the University of Bordeaux. In 1999, he got a HDR degree (Habilitation à diriger la recherche) at the University of Pau (France). He has published more than 220 papers in the international literature and several books linked to environmental quality measurements.

He has joined the Research General-Directorate of the European Commission in 1989 where he has been scientific officer from 1989 until 2002 on topics dealing with the quality control of environmental analysis (interlaboratory studies and reference materials). Since 2002, he has integrated the Water & Marine Unit of the EC Environment Directorate-General where is now responsible for the development and implementation of the new EU Groundwater Directive which complements the existing water policy framework (in particular the Water Framework Directive), as well as for other WFD implementation issues (e.g. chemical monitoring). He is also maintaining close contacts with the scientific community through co-ordination activities aiming to integrate scientific findings into policy development. 

On a separate note, he is professor at the K.U.Leuven where he teaches “water quality, monitoring and treatment” in an International Master programme on Water Resources Engineering (IUPWARE).

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