Alan Lovell

Alan Charles Lovell (born 19 November 1953) is a British businessman, formerly chief executive of the British construction company Costain, and currently chairman of the Environment Agency.

Early life Lovell is the son of a farmer, and was educated at Winchester College,

Career He trained as an accountant with PricewaterhouseCoopers from 1976 to 1980, where he was seconded to the City merchant bank Kleinwort Benson, and then worked for the electronics company Plessey from 1980 to 1989. He was finance director of Costain from 1992 to 1995, and its CEO from 1995 to 1997, Carillion went into liquidation in January 2018.

In July 2019, Lovell was appointed chairman of the financially troubled Interserve group.

Lovell has been chairman of Safestyle UK and of the Association of Lloyd's Members. In 2022, he became chairman of the Environment Agency.

Lovell was High Sheriff of Hampshire 2010–11. He is a deputy lieutenant of Hampshire, former chairman of the Mary Rose Trust and former chairman of the board of governors of Winchester University.

Personal life Lovell is married to Virginia Weatherill (born 1955), daughter of the former House of Commons speaker Bernard Weatherill, and they have three daughters.

He has a longstanding interest in tennis, real tennis and rackets from his schooldays, and was head of the UK's real tennis association in Britain for 13 years.