Jo Parker

Jo Parker is a chartered civil engineer and has worked in the water industry for 34 years with a number of different UK water companies, reaching Director level. She was awarded the MBE for services to the water industry in 1996.

She currently works as an independent consultant specialising in infrastructure asset management. She has acted as expert witness for the Greater London Authority commenting on Thames Water’s leakage performance and is currently technical auditor for water mains installation for the London Olympic development. She is the project manager for the UK Water Industry Research projects ‘Minimising Street Works Disruption’ and ‘21st Century Distribution Networks’ as well as the UK government funded ‘VISTA’ project, all of which seek to improve how utilities manage their buried apparatus.

She has worked all over the world in a diverse range of locations including Afghanistan, Bosnia, Philippines, Jamaica and recently completed assignments in Indonesia and Iran for the World Bank Institute and Madagascar for the charity ‘Water and Sanitation for the Urban Poor’. 

She takes an active role in the industry and is chair of the Utilities panel of the Pipeline Industries Guild and a member of the Institution of Civil Engineers Geospatial Engineering Board, the Water Supply and Quality Panel of the Chartered Institution of Water and Environmental Management as well as the Water Loss Task Force in the International Water Association.

In spite of all this she still finds time to compete in triathlons, breed alpacas and play the cello and the double bass and is thankful for a very supportive husband.

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