Maria Manidaki

Net Zero Technical Lead & Principal Water Investment Planning Advisor, MottMacdonald

Maria Manidaki

Net Zero Technical Lead & Principal Water Investment Planning Advisor, MottMacdonald

Biography

Maria is Mott MacDonald’s Global Technical Lead for Net Zero. A chartered engineer with over 18 years of experience in investment planning, carbon and asset management, Maria has led a number of strategic decarbonisation projects in infrastructure, including the Water UK Net Zero Carbon Roadmap. Maria has been supporting water utilities and other infrastructure owners in the UK, Australasia, North America and the Middle East, plan and implement decarbonisation solutions. Maria is a member of the Green Construction Board in the UK and has co-authored the Infrastructure Carbon Review and PAS 2080: Carbon Management in Infrastructure. She is in the Technical Author team for the PAS 2080 update, which is to be launched in 2022. Maria is a visiting lecturer on Low Carbon and Net Zero Infrastructure at Cranfield University, UK. She is a technical advisor on Net Zero in a number of industry forums including the Institution of Civil Engineers Carbon Project.