Description
Paul Stevens is a Chemical Engineer with extensive industrial and regulatory experience, including an early career in the cement manufacturing industry. He joined the Environment Agency in 1997 as a Process Industries and Radioactive Substances Inspector, gaining experience across a broad range of industrial sectors.
He subsequently held leadership and management roles, including responsibility for regulatory and permitting teams, before becoming the Environment Agency’s national technical lead for the cement, lime and minerals industries and the waste incineration sector.
Building on his technical and regulatory experience, Paul has played a leading role in the development and establishment of the UK Best Available Techniques (BAT) regime, helping to create a new framework for determining industrial environmental standards across the UK. As UK BAT Manager, he works with government, the Devolved Administrations, regulators, industry and other stakeholders to develop and implement the UK BAT process.
Paul also represents the UK internationally on BAT and wider environmental regulation, including through the OECD Expert Group on BAT and IMPEL work on the circular economy, complemented by earlier experience participating in European BREF discussions.
