Oliver Grievson

Oliver Grievson is a highly experience chartered wastewater engineer specialising in everything from process engineering and the monitoring of wastewater all the way to data analysis and digital transformation. He has a bachelors degree in Environmental Science from Kingston University and a master degree in Water & Wastewater Technology from Cranfield University. He is a Chartered Engineer, Environmentalist, Scientist and Chartered Water & Environmental Manager as well as holding Fellowships with CIWEM, the IET, InstMC, IES and the International Water Association. Professionally, working as an Associate Director at the engineering consultancy, Atkins Oliver helps a number of the water companies with wastewater monitoring and flow compliance as well as the adoption of digital transformation and the use of digital tools. Oliver also does a significant amount of voluntary work acting as the Chair of the IWA Digital Water Programme and the Chair of the Foundation for Water Research Sustainable Wastewater Management Panel producing books, white papers and presenting at conferences around the world. With this Visiting Professorship his aim is to help develop the next generation of technical leaders within the water industry. He will do this by empowering them with a mixture of traditional wastewater engineering skills as well as more modern digital skills whilst helping them to think out of the box to help solve some of the water industries trickiest problems.