Chris Zevenbergen
 

Chris Zevenbergen is professor of Flood Resilience at the Coastal and Cities Risk and Resilience Department of IHE Delft and of Delta Urbanism at the Faculty of Architecture of the TuDelft, The Netherlands. He is also a visiting professor at the Southeast University (SEU) and at the North China University of Water Resources and Electric Power (NCWU). He was a Member of the Board of the Public Private Innovation Platform Clean Tech Delta, The Netherlands in 2013 and 2014 and of the Netherlands Partnership (NWP) from 2010 to 2013). He is now chairman of the Academic Board of the MSc program River Delta Development of three Applied Universities in The Netherlands. He has published/edited five books and more than 120 scientific publications in the field of environmental engineering, water sensitive design and urban flood management. He was co-founder and chairman of the European Network COST C22 on Urban Flood Management. He chairs the Flood Resilience Group (FRG) of IHE Delft. He participates in various national and international advisory boards of governmental and scientific institutions.