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Robert FrostRobert Frost

Director, Energy and Natural Resources - Turner & Townsend 

Robert is a Director for Turner & Townsend's Energy & Natural resources business, delivering strategic project expertise to clients, leading on internal operations, managing key client relationships and business generation. A dynamic and results-driven project leader with over 18 years of cross-sector experience spanning defence (maritime), logistics and distribution, supply chain management, and energy (nuclear & conventional). 
 
Skilled in aligning executive priorities with delivery teams, acting as a strategic integrator to ensure clarity, cohesion, and momentum. Robert brings deep organizational insight and board-level awareness, with a track record of supporting governance forums, shaping executive briefings, and aligning programme delivery with corporate strategy.

Career highlights include:

  • Serving as a commissioned Officer in the Royal Navy.
  • Large team leadership implementing continuity strategies to enable safe operations of a large scale logistics facility during the Covid pandemic.
  • Launching a $500M state of the art robotics-enabled warehouse for Amazon Services UK.
  • Operational and supply chain optimization of Amazon Fashion's EU Imaging Business across EU UK and Turkey regions.
  • Project Management of the government's nuclear skills taskforce, delivering a suite of recommendations to secure £700m to boost nuclear skills within the UK.
  • Implementation of the people strategy within Hinkley Point C Supply Chain Directorate.
  • Strategic optimization of Harbour Energy's global project portfolio.

Robert is known is known for empathetic, values-led leadership that cultivates high-performing teams, drives behavioural change, and enables transformation across complex programme environments.

Session | Beyond nuclear delivery: From major infrastructure projects to lasting societal value through leadership, change and collaboration

The global transition to clean, secure and resilient energy depends on the successful delivery of complex nuclear programmes. Yet the success of these projects is no longer measured solely by whether they are delivered on time and within budget. Their true value lies in the lasting benefits they create for communities, economies, organisations and future generations.

Delivering these outcomes requires far more than engineering excellence. It requires visionary leadership, strong collaborative partnerships, organisational transformation, resilient supply chains, and the ability to align people, processes and purpose to realise benefits throughout the project lifecycle. In an increasingly complex and highly regulated environment, the challenge is not simply to deliver projects, but to deliver meaningful and sustainable change.

Bringing together senior leaders from AtkinsRéalis and Turner & Townsend, this panel draws on experience from some of the world's most significant nuclear and energy infrastructure projects, including Hinkley Point, Sizewell, Barakah, ITER and other major international projects. With expertise spanning engineering, programme leadership, organisational change, defence, logistics and business transformation, the panellists will share practical lessons from delivering transformational programmes in some of the most demanding sectors.

The discussion will explore how leadership, collaboration and benefit management can transform project delivery into lasting societal value. From developing future skills and strengthening supply chain resilience to embedding organisational change, fostering stakeholder collaboration and realising long-term benefits, the panel will examine the practical approaches that enable major infrastructure programmes to create value well beyond project completion.

Whether you are a project professional, programme leader, engineer, consultant, client or policymaker, this session will provide practical insights into delivering complex projects that not only achieve their objectives but also create lasting societal benefits and leave a meaningful legacy for the society.