Nirmal Kotecha
Chair, Major Projects Association
Nirmal was appointed Chair of the Major Projects Association in April 2025. He is a Partner at Allora Infrastructure and an Independent Non-Executive Director on the Board of Thames Water. He has held senior roles in several Major Infrastructure Client organisations across a number of sectors including, Energy, Roads, and Water, and led the transformation of their procurement, commercial and programme delivery capability.
He stepped down from UK Power Networks in 2024 after serving over 12 years on the Executive Team as the Director of Capital Programme & Procurement, having successfully delivered its ED1 major capital programme via the ED1SON Alliance.
Nirmal was previously on the Board of the Highways Agency for four years, as their Major Projects Director, having joined on the back of the Nichols’ Review in 2007, and is credited with transforming the Agency’s commercial and programme delivery capability.
Prior to that, he was at Anglian Water where he developed the @One Alliance which is still regarded as an exemplary model for collaboratively delivering a large and complex programme of works.
Nirmal is the immediate past Chair of the Infrastructure Client Group Management Board and is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Civil Engineers and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing Supply and is an Alumnus of the London Business School.
He stepped down from UK Power Networks in 2024 after serving over 12 years on the Executive Team as the Director of Capital Programme & Procurement, having successfully delivered its ED1 major capital programme via the ED1SON Alliance.
Nirmal was previously on the Board of the Highways Agency for four years, as their Major Projects Director, having joined on the back of the Nichols’ Review in 2007, and is credited with transforming the Agency’s commercial and programme delivery capability.
Prior to that, he was at Anglian Water where he developed the @One Alliance which is still regarded as an exemplary model for collaboratively delivering a large and complex programme of works.
Nirmal is the immediate past Chair of the Infrastructure Client Group Management Board and is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institute of Civil Engineers and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing Supply and is an Alumnus of the London Business School.