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Breakfast Briefing with Nick Smallwood, Chief Executive, Infrastructure and Projects Authority

Author WIG Date 17 Jan 2023

We were delighted to welcome Nick Smallwood, Chief Executive of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority (IPA) to share his insights on key challenges and priorities for the IPA; from railways, schools, hospitals and housing, to defence, IT and major transformation programmes.

Theme(s)

Infrastructure

Ensuring world-class delivery of major infrastructure projects across the UK will be crucial to achieving the government's Net Zero and Levelling-Up objectives. Catch up on this Briefing for your opportunity to:

  • Understand how the IPA plans to drive continuous improvement in the way government delivers infrastructure and major projects
  • Learn about opportunities for cross-sector collaboration

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Speakers at the Event

Nick Smallwood is the Chief Executive Officer of the Infrastructure and Projects Authority and Head of Government’s Project Delivery Function.

Nick is the former Vice President for Projects Engineering and Chief Projects Engineer at Shell. Nick has 40 years experience of managing complex project portfolios and having developed Shell’s Global Project Academy. At Shell, Nick was accountable for managing how projects were delivered and a variety of significant improvement programmes.

Nick was also a trustee of the board of the Association for Project Management (APM) until November 2019, where he contributed to the overall development of the UK’s project management profession.

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