We’re proud to bring WUN to Scotland for the first time, and what better way to launch than with a powerful panel event featuring local executive leaders who are championing change in the utilities sector.

Hosted by WUN partner, Business Stream, this event will spotlight the real-world actions that can help create more inclusive, supportive and progressive workplaces for women across the industry.

What to expect:

• An engaging expert panel sharing insights, experiences and practical actions
• Lively discussion around the challenges and opportunities for women in utilities
• Informal networking to connect, learn and build relationships

Whether you’re based in Scotland or further afield, we’d love you to join us and be part of the conversation.

Limited tickets available.

Please let [email protected] know if you require a car parking space.

Chaired by Sarah Hopkins, WUN Director & Director, Pathways People Solutions.

Panelists include:

Jo Dow, Chief Executive, Business Stream:

Claire Jones (Head of Onshore Wind Commercial and Investments at EDF Renewables.

Isobel Green, Project Engineer, SSEN Transmission

Please let [email protected] know if you require a car parking space.

Bios

Sarah Hopkins, WUN Director & Director Pathways People Solutions.

Sarah is an experienced senior HR professional with 25 years’ experience, operating at Executive level at Wales & West Utilities for 13 years. She has subsequently set up her own consulting company, Pathways People Solutions, supporting clients to evolve their people and culture strategy, create leadership and management programmes, and deliver senior level coaching.

Sarah has a passion for culture transformation and has launched The Culture Kit to help organisations to create and nurture workplace cultures by blending proven expertise in Human Resources, colleague engagement and brand development.

She has been on the board of WUN since 2023 and has helped to create the bespoke WUN Drive and Thrive development programmes for female line manages and senior leaders.

Sarah has a degree in Business Management, a Masters in HRM and is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel & Development. She is a qualified coach and is a Trustee Director of National Energy Action and Cardiff Rugby Community Foundation.

Jo Dow, Chief Executive, Business Stream: 

Jo qualified as a chartered accountant while working in private practice. She joined the Finance team at Scottish and Southern Energy in 1998, before moving to join Scottish Water in 2002. In 2006, she was seconded to Business Stream to create the governance framework, funding structure and strategy for the new business in preparation for the retail market opening to competition.  Jo became Finance Director of Business Stream in 2006 and was appointed Chief Executive in October 2014.

During Jo’s time as CEO, she has led the successful delivery of the company’s ambitious growth strategy, helping cement Business Stream as one of the leading players in the UK water market. This has included two acquisitions of scale and securing a number of high profile, multi-million pound contracts. Jo has also held various external Board and senior level positions helping to drive market improvements for business customers, including sitting on the Strategic Panel which was set up to provide strategic direction to improve non-household customer outcomes, and being appointed as a Non-Executive Director for both the market operator (MOSL) in England and the Central Market Agency (CMA) in Scotland.

Jo is passionate about driving positive change for the environment and society as a whole. This belief led her to introduce the business’ purpose-led vision to make a positive difference to its customers, its people, the environment and local communities in 2019. To support others to achieve their responsible business goals, Jo sits on the Business in the Community (BiTC) Scotland Advisory Board, a business-led membership organisation dedicated to promoting sustainable business practices by inspiring members to build thriving communities in which they live and work and to make a positive difference to the environment.

Isobel Green, Project Engineer, SSEN Transmission

Isobel Green is a project engineer at SSEN Transmission, where she works as part of the engineering team to design and manage the construction of the Transmission Network for the North of Scotland as the UK pushes towards it’s Net-Zero goals. Her role encompasses substation design and research into overhead line noise mitigation. She has presented her research at international conferences and sits on both UK and International working groups. In the past year, she has been shortlisted for four national awards including the WUN Rising Star award and the YPGEA Culture Change Award, for the benefits she’s brought to the industry.

When she’s not working on the challenges surrounding the growth of the network, she’s working as a pillar co-lead in the Inclusion and Diversity committee and as a steering group member in the Disability, Neurodiversity and Chronic Health Belong Group within SSE, raising awareness using her own lived experience as an Autistic individual and working hard to create an inclusive workplace for diverse minds to flourish. She recently presented at Utilities Week Live 2025 on the importance of inclusion to attract and retain the workforce we need to face the challenges ahead.

Claire Jones (Head of Onshore Wind Commercial and Investments at EDF Renewables.

Claire is an experienced leader in the development of renewable energy projects, having worked in the energy sector for most of her 20+ year career, specialising in renewables for the past ten years. As Head of Commercial & Investments, Claire’s role at EDF Renewables is largely to guide onshore wind projects through the development process to Financial Investment Decision, providing commercial oversight from initial origination, through construction and into operations. Her team is responsible for the overall business case management of a pipeline of over 2GW of projects and 1GW of assets. Scotland has been the key focus of Claire’s work throughout her time at EDFR and she has supported the investment of hundreds of millions of pounds into new generation projects across the country. In addition to investments, Claire also plays a leading role in shaping the strategic direction of EDFRs Onshore Wind Business Unit, defining the strategy for growth, through the development of new utility scale projects, mergers and acquisitions and repowering opportunities.

Climate change and sustainability are real passions of Claire’s, and her career is reflective of this with roles in waste management and recycling, energy conservation, fuel poverty, carbon reduction and renewables. Claire has an Environmental Science degree and a Masters in Renewable Energy and Economics. The scale of the Net Zero challenge is a concern of Claire’s, but she enjoys being able to contribute to the solutions and the ongoing balancing act between the environment and the economy

Event Inclusion Policy

WUN Event T&Cs