Alex works for The River Trust with responsibility for establishing the Water Stewardship service, which aims to help business and others work collaboratively to deliver sustainable solutions for water at a catchment scale. He is the UK lead for the Courtauld 2030 commitment for collective action on water and a founding member of the Riverscapes partnership with the Woodland Trust, National Trust and Beaver Trust. Before joining The River Trust`s he worked at WWF -UK and before that spent 14 years at Defra and Natural England working on the design and delivery of agri-environment schemes.