Here are brief profiles of the Utility Week team.

Janet Wood

Editor
Tel: 020 8652 3806
Email: janet.wood@rbi.co.uk

I studied physics and chemistry, but quickly realised that I got on better explaining other people's work than doing it myself. I started writing about the power industry soon after the UK privatisation process began and decided that I would stick with it until things quietened down.
I am still here, although I have tried to inject a little variety by covering, at various times, different technologies, political changes in various parts of the world, and distributed
generation. During a five-year stint as a freelance I also wrote books on local energy and nuclear power for the IET.

The water sector was new to me when I first started work on Utility Week but I began by asking a lot of questions about how water companies meet their power needs, and now I can talk about suspended solids and abstraction trading on equal terms with my colleagues. I am still not sure what "good" water status is.

I am a native of southeast London and still live there. However I have only recently discovered that I live practically on top of one of Europe's biggest reservoirs (Honor Oak) and now have an ambition to see inside it.

My friends once described me as having a "bring it on" attitude to life. I love to travel, but since the Utility Week schedule does not allow for many trips canooeing down the Zambezi I have become firmly rooted in my allotment instead, and occasionally delight my colleagues with gifts of giant vegetables. I also love the theatre, which provided me with one of my best ever weekends watching all eight of Shakespeare's histories, with only just enough time between to buy a pair of shoes.

Roger Milne

Political and environmental editor
Tel: 020 8652 3809
Email: roger.milne@rbi.co.uk

I originally planned to be an English and history teacher but at teacher training college in the 1960s got the journalism bug and have been a working journalist and broadcaster since 1968, employed on publications as diverse as the Slough Express, Slough Evening Mail (where I worked alongside Greg Dyke) and New Scientist (environment consultant during the second half of the 1980s) where I won awards for coverage of the Chernobyl disaster. I have written for all the serious dailies, countless different magazines and have been a radio and television pundit as well as the trial presenter for a short-lived BBC 2 series, Antennae.

I have also been a visiting lecturer at City University on its graduate journalism training course. Since the 1970s I have specialised in covering environmental, energy and planning issues. For my sins I have covered more major public inquiries than most (including the two-year long Sizewell B marathon). I am the sole remaining member of staff from the launch of Utility Week in 1994.
I live in a bungalow on an island in the Thames and have four children and three grandchildren. I helped start a successful community arts centre in Windsor and remain a passionate Mackem. I was born a street away from Sunderland's former home ground Roker Park.

I am an inveterate festival-goer, enjoy all the live arts (particularly music) and as a semi-insomniac am not averse to all-night squat parties. As a teenager I harboured delusions of becoming a great mountaineer. I still enjoy mountain walking. I was a not very good but enthusiastic rock-climber. I have recently begun appearing with my second son, a performance artist, as an extreme clown known as Uncle Dmitri. I have not given up the day job - yet.

Annabel Andrews

Reporter
Tel: 020 8652 3808
Email: annabel.andrews@rbi.co.uk

My first job was as an office skivvy for Wessex Water at the age of 16. Those who know their water companies will have correctly deduced that I grew up near Bath.
There were a few detours before I came back to the sector as Utility Week's water industry correspondent in 2008. I studied English and French at the University of Birmingham. As part of my degree, I spent a year living in Grenoble in the French Alps, where I spent most of my time up a mountain or in a cafe.

In the university holidays I worked as a tour guide at the Jane Austen Centre in Bath. This mainly involved wearing a bonnet and coralling pensioners, but also drinking tea and writing for the centre's magazine.
I now live in south London with friends. I enjoy boring them by talking about leakage, anaerobic digestion and the weighted average cost of capital. My other interests include outdoor swimming, festivals, baking, vintage dresses, camping and trashy crime dramas.

Nigel Hawkins

City correspondent
Email: Nigelhawkins1010@aol.com

I am a City investment analyst, who specialises primarily in the electricity, water, gas and telecoms sectors, and have been employed in the City since 1988.
A regular feature writer for Utility Week since 1995, I also write for other publications and frequently contribute to the financial media.
In addition, I undertake research projects on energy, water, health and economic policies for Westminster-based Think Tanks and other organisations. I am currently a senior fellow of the Adam Smith Institute.
Prior to joining the City, I worked for six years in politics, including three years as political correspondence secretary to Lady Thatcher at 10 Downing Street. In 1987, I stood in the General Election as Conservative Party candidate in Sedgefield against Tony Blair.
A graduate of Buckingham University in Law, Economics and Politics in 1978, I subsequently qualified as an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (AICS), whilst working as export sales manager at Marlow Ropes in East Sussex.

Fay Newman

Ad manager
Tel: 020 8652 8690
Email: fay.newman@rbi.co.uk

Bought up in Tunbridge Wells, Kent, and of course went to the girls' grammar. It all went horribly down hill from there with a dancing career as a show girl for 8 years. Unfortunately no one would then give me a job, due to lack of experience, and I fell into local press advertising sales and here I am quite some time later, in advertising sales!
I live in Kenley in Surrey, with my committed, non-committed (confused) boyfriend.
I love being creative with my hands and number millinery, sewing, knitting, cooking and gardening amongst my hobbies. Those of you who know me well will know I like a fine wine or champagne too.