Governance
To provide direction and governance for the delivery of sustainability within the University, we have established a steering group called the Napier Group.
The Napier Group
The aim of the Napier Group is to act as the strategic group that oversees, monitors and guides the delivery of sustainability ‘strategy’ across the University. The group reports to the Executive Board as necessary.
The Napier group is made up of:
- The group's Chair - Professor Bob Nichol, Pro-Vice-Chancellor and Executive Dean of the Faculty of Engineering and Physical Sciences and member of the University’s Executive Board with board-level responsibility for sustainability at Surrey.
- Nathalie Hinds, Director of Institute (for sustainability) operations, innovation and partnerships.
- Martin Wiles, Head of Sustainability (Estates).
The Napier Group will also play a strategic role in delivering the net zero carbon (NZC) plan for scopes 1 & 2 and the scope 3 delivery plan. The group sits along side a University strategic programme board for NZC, which has a sub-board made up of both University of Surrey staff and staff from SSE. Under that will come workstream boards comprising of 8 boards for each of the 8 points of the NZC plan, plus specific project boards for projects like the solar farm.
Details of the structure below, including membership of the strategic board:
| Role | Name | Key Responsibilities |
| COO | Will Davies | Chair Programme Board & Programme Sponsor |
| Pro-VC, Executive Dean (FEPS) | Prof Bob Nichol | EB Sponsor |
| Head of Sustainability | Martin Wiles | NZC lead |
| Director of Estates | Marco Holness | To help mobilise estates functions to deliver NZC |
| Head of Built Environment | Patrick Abbott | To help project management of NZC. Provide admin. Support for board. |
| Senior Procurement Officer | James Moore/Nick Jones | To help manage procurement of NZC with energy partner. |
| Senior Financial Officer | Ian Prebble | To review and challenge financial costs of projects. |
| Senior Legal Officer | TBC | To help advise on legal issues within contracts and projects. |
| Energy Manager | Andrew Harman | To support Head of Sustainability. |