Dr Phil Hopkins is an independent consultant.
He has held a number of senior management and executive positions in the oil and gas business, and combines this high level management expertise with over 35 years engineering experience in transmission pipelines, including work on pipeline engineering, damage, safety, risk, integrity, surveillance, inspection and maintenance, and repair.
Dr Hopkins has served on many national and international committees, and continues to be involved with universities as Visiting Professor at Northumbria and Newcastle Universities.