Nirmal is a Partner at Allora Infrastructure and Chair of the Major Projects Association. 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, 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 and is a Fellow of both the Chartered Institution of Civil Engineers and the Chartered Institute of Purchasing Supply and is an Alumnus of the London Business School.