Vicky Dawe

Vicky Dawe is the head of the Non-Agricultural Diffuse Water Pollution Team at the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), and manages Sustainable Drainage Systems (SuDS) and other water quality policies.
Vicky joined the Civil Service in 2003 as communications manager for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister's New Dimension programme, and then led the department's business planning unit. She established and ran the executive and non-executive Boards during the creation of Natural England, and led a Defra project to apply Better Regulation principles to Defra's enforcement policies. More recently Vicky worked on the Department for Energy and Climate Change's flagship Home Energy Saving Programme.
She was born in Australia, where, as a project manager, she ran marketing and conference facilities and developed customer strategies for an award winning company.
Vicky holds a Bachelor of Science and a Bachelor of Arts from Monash University, Melbourne, where she was later elected Secretary of the Monash Alumni Association. She is currently a Board member of the Sutton Women's Centre.