Anna Kettle
AtkinsRéalis
Anna Kettle is a Legal Director at AtkinsRéalis. Anna’s role primarily involves advising the Project and Programme Services (PPS) division. She sits on the PPS Senior Leadership team and works hand in hand with the team to help realise key strategic priorities and find commercial solutions to their most pressing legal challenges. Anna is also part of the UK Extended Leadership Team and is surrounded by a great O shaped legal team who are always there to support and share expertise.
Prior to her role with PPS, Anna was Legal Business Partner to the Transportation business, where she developed a specialism in collaborative contracting and Alliancing and oversaw the successful deployment of the AtkinsRéalis Future Signalling System.
In addition to the Business Partner roles, Anna has acted as lead counsel to the EDAROTH team, helping AtkinRéalis to establish a new business model to tackle the social and affordable housing challenge using modern methods of construction. Anna was also part of the original DecarbonomicsTM team, providing legal support from the inception through to the successful commercialisation of this solution to help decarbonise the built environment.
Anna is a member of the AtkinsRéalis Empower and Parentsnet ED&I networks and is passionate about lifting other women up and supporting working parents.
Anna qualified as a Solicitor in 2012 and joined Atkins in 2014 from the law firm Charles Russell Speechlys LLP.
Anna currently works part-time, and when not at work she is normally chasing around after her two crazy children. In her very limited spare time Anna loves reading, going to the theatre, tennis, cryptic crosswords or just enjoying a coffee in peace.