John Lamb
Director - Environment, Highways & Transportation

John has held Public Sector Directorships including Manchester City Council, Calderdale, Thurrock, Trafford, Buckinghamshire and Essex.  Prior to that John led major engineering projects and operations at Heathrow and Stansted Airports.

As Chief Officer in Calderdale he witnessed first-hand the massive impact of the Boxing Day floods in 2015. Since then, he has championed the need to better understand Resilience and Response across the Civil Resilience community. With DfT he co led the influential 2021 Deeming report. A key element of this is world leading approaches to Rapid Impact Assessment which has won UK awards and Ministerial accolades.

Through the new UK Adaptation, Biodiversity and Climate Board, part of UKRLG, John’s reach is across 200+ Highway Authorities. A message is how to prepare for the worst day, rather than and average day, and alongside excellence in ‘winter’ maintenance to consider how the sector moves to multi hazard, 24/7 365 response.