The UK water crisis: What actions the government and private sector need to take

Author's Biography

Emmeline Skelton is a member of PwC’s Performance Assurance Practice and works with clients across the UK on sustainability and resilience related projects. Her clients include companies running National Critical Infrastructure. She has a particular interest in disaster risk reduction, contributing to the United Nations’ continuing efforts to support the world’s most vulnerable communities, by participating in their Geneva conference on this topic. This led to an opportunity to become one of the PwC representatives at the National Dialogue for the Hyogo Framework for Action. Emmeline developed a resilience benchmarking tool for PwC, which led to her being shortlisted for an innovation award as part of the European BCI Awards 2013. She also successfully nominated the Risk Assurance Enterprise Resilience proposition as a PwC Global Innovation Spotlight, securing funding to promote it and encouraging its rollout across the PwC global network. Emmeline has also guest authored a chapter in Incisive Media’s latest book, which focuses on resilience.