Simon Crowther

CEO of FPS Group

Simon Crowther’s passion for flooding started when his family home in Nottinghamshire was flooded five times in the summer of 2007. Being forced to live elsewhere for nine months led Crowther to start looking into how flood damage could be mitigated. He now runs the Flood Protection Solutions Group (FPS), which assesses and manages flood risks. Here he tells Attitude how things have changed since 2007 and how LGBTQ+ representation in Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics could be improved upon.

What happened in 2007?

When it first happened, it sounds strange, but as a 13-year-old it was fascinating because it was something I’d never seen before. We weren’t aware of the dangers, and we didn’t imagine the house was at risk. As the water got