Nirmal Kotecha

Nirmal Kotecha was appointed as Advisor to the Board in September 2024 and to the Board of Thames Water in March 2025.

Skills

• Expertise in leading the client-side transformation in the procurement and safe delivery of multi-billion pound capital projects and programmes
• Promoting collaborative working at both an organisational, supply chain and Industry level to improve the initiation and delivery of major projects

Experience

Nirmal has over 30 years’ experience with UK infrastructure clients in the roads, and regulated utility sectors (including gas, water and power). This includes 12 years as an Executive Director at UK Power Networks where he was the Director of Capital Programmes & Procurement, having joined from what was the Highways Agency, where he served on the Board as the Major Projects Director.

Prior to that he was at Anglian Water where he developed the @One Alliance Model for delivering Anglian’s major capital programme.  

Nirmal is Chair of the Major Projects Association and a past Chair of the Infrastructure Client Group.

He is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineers and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing Supply and is an Alumnus of the London Business School.