Simon Lewis
Jennings
London SE12
simonlewisjennings@gmail.com
DOB 25th
September 1964
UK Citizen
Married
2009…(current): Senior Proposals Manager, Permits
& Environment, ASN, Greenwich, London
Alcatel
Submarine Networks (ASN) builds international fibre optic telecommunication
cables and installs them in the ocean to carry data around the world. Our
turnkey offer to Customers includes siting and environmental licensing and
compliance,
I
support bids for new projects with permitting service proposals. We need to
understand licensing processes, timeframes, costs, risks, and likely mitigation requirements. This demands
maintenance of an accurate view of regulatory contexts in many jurisdictions
around the world - in this respect it resembles my first job in telecoms market
research - curating information gathered through international networks.
2008-2009: Head of Sustainability, Capital Projects, BAA,
Heathrow Airport, London
Environmental Quality
Management System across airport construction programme, tracking performance on
measures of design quality, energy, carbon, water, waste, supply chain, materials.
2004-2008: Environment & Community Manager, United
Utilities PLC, Warrington
·
Corporate
Social Responsibility Partnership Manager: Working in UU’s Corporate Communications function I led “United Futures”, a partnership between UU and the regeneration
NGO Groundwork UK, to deliver environmental
improvements in urban neighbourhoods affected by large water and wastewater network
infrastructure projects.
·
Catchment
Estates Manager (UU Environment & Community), Central Catchment, West Pennine Moors estate, based near Bolton
Led a regional estate department implementing
integrated water catchment management on an extensive and disjunct upland landscape
(about 10,000 ha) in NW England.
·
Regulatory
Compliance Manager, Water Regulation Team, Transformation Directorate, UU Water
(UUW) , Warrington
Statutory reporting to economic
regulator on company performance relative to the targets in the “regulatory
contract”; ad hoc reporting on inter-company trading within the Group.
1998 - 2003: Ecology & Development Director, Sungura
Consultants, Maun, Botswana
I set up a conservation
consultancy based in Maun, near the Okavango Delta in northern Botswana to provide technical support to conservation and
development projects including:
business plans,
management plans, fund raising proposals and tenders for private
sector-community joint venture opportunities, sustained yield harvesting and wildlife
tourism. These plans were usually done as a lead author within a
multidisciplinary team of technical, social, financial and design specialists. Ecological
Monitoring; Geographical Information Systems.
1995-1997:
Director, Institute of Tropical Forest Conservation, Uganda, World
Wide Fund for Nature
Based in Bwindi Impenetrable National Park, Kigezi, south-west Uganda,
I led a forest research programme across three sites in the region – Bwindi,
Mgahinga, Echuya. Linked to local universities. Emphasis was on developing
capacity and creating a better funding situation with a longer horizon; I was accountable for staff and budget management, welfare of students, visitors.
1996-1997: Trustee, Mgahinga and Bwindi Impenetrable Forest
Conservation Trust
Scientific Advisor/Trustee on the Board of this conservation endowment
trust, developed under the Global Environment Facility (GEF).
1993-95: Professional Officer Ecology, ODA, Ruaha
Ecosystem Wildlife Management Project
Junior
technical (ecology) officer on ODA (Overseas Development Administration) funded
protected area planning project in Ruaha National Park (10,000 sq. km)
ecological
monitoring systems, natural resources surveys
and habitat mapping
research with communities
around the park on history of wildlife use,
attitudes to conservation, etc.
assessment of potential
for hunting, cropping and tourism to support village economies.
1992-1993: Masters
field research in Kenya – Community Based Wildlife Management
Supported by a
NERC studentship and award from the David Shepherd Conservation
Foundation. Defined simple management
information requirements for wildlife conservation as a land use.
1991-1992: Wild
Dog Lycaon pictus reconnaissance in the Tsavo Ecosystem,
Kenya
In
collaboration with the National Museums of Kenya, Kenya Wildlife Service, reconnaissance of the Tsavo
region to collect evidence on the occurrence and distribution of wild dogs.
1990 – 1991: Intern, Wildlife
& Protected Areas Unit, UN Environment Programme, Nairobi, Kenya
Environmental policy review work.
1990-1991: Mkomazi Game Reserve Tanzania/University
of Cambridge, Dept. of Zoology
I registered
for a PhD at the University of Cambridge (Churchill College) in early 1990. For
various reasons this did not work out as hoped. After discounting other PhD
project options in Tanzania I went to Kenya to
investigate possibilities there. I was not to complete the PhD.
1987-1990: Pensions Consultant, Hanover
Pensions, Throgmorton Street, London, EC2N 2AT
Financial
services – retirement planning advice to private clients; regulatory compliance.
1986 – 1987: Market Researcher, CIT Research, Hanover
Square, London WC1
Researching
mobile communications markets across Europe. In 2025 I am still gathering and
analysing information in a similar way but across many more countries.
1992-93: MSc., Environmental Technology. Imperial College Centre for Environmental Technology, London. Research project on community-based wildlife conservation.
1983-86: BSc. Hons., Biology. First Class. Imperial College of Science & Technology, London.
English native;
Swahili (fluent conversational); French (basic).