With more than 25 years of professional experience in water-related projects, always dealing with government and regional authorities, my working experience includes project management, strategic advice, technical design and natural hazard & risk assessment.

I am a protagonist and promoter of the Dutch International Water Ambition, focusing on core values of the Dutch approach:

• Integrated and adaptive approach to regional development, water technology and/or water management;
• Implementation based on most opportune timing, location and maximum financial benefit / impact (no-regrets measures);
• Measures based on socio-economic, environmental, technical and financial sustainability.

The most exiting projects I have been involved in over the last years are:

• Mozambique: Beira, Municipal Recovery and Resilience Plan (after cyclone Idai), A Roadmap to Building Beira Back Better. Drainage expert, May 2019. Needs assessment for a donor conference, multi-stakeholder, multidisciplinary and multicultural, supporting complex administrative decision-making processes in human settlements of Beira in a multi-stakeholder environment
• Kerala State, India. Dutch Risk Reduction Mission. Making of a draft action plan for Kuttanad. March 2019. Data management, decision support and integrated water management. After de severe floods from 2018 a multi-stakeholder, multidisciplinary mission was undertaken.
• Vietnam: Delta Vietnam, Consultancy services on Dutch experiences with regional coordination mechanisms, Netherlands Enterprise Agency, 2018. Role water governance.
• Philippines: Feasibility study on the Kaliwa Water Supply System, reviewing, GIS-modelling on site suitability and preferred pipeline routing, GIS & Hydraulics Capacity building Workshop with QGIS. 2017 – May 2018.
• Germany: Update of the SOBEK model of the Niederrhein for the Federal Institute of Hydrology, Germany. Hydraulic and geographic modelling (data management) assigned by Riquest, 2016-2017.
• India: Amaravati Capital City blue consultant, India: Acting as strategic advisor and senior specialist for the development of flood protection measures, stabilization of the riverine shore, islands and the design of urban navigable waterways. Recommendations on the organizational structure needed for maintenance and operations were also part of this project.
• Myanmar: A study regarding the inland water transport study on the Ayeyarwady River, hydraulic studies and development of navigational maps. This study was meant as a “blue print study” for developing the policy on waterway design.
• Philippines: Feasibility study on the Kaliwa Water Supply System for Maynilad Water Services Inc., Manila.
• Myanmar: Ayeryawady integrated river basin management project, development of a physical 3D-model of the basin for participative consultation of communities.
• Malaysia: Value engineering of the Flood Mitigation Conceptual Proposal for the city of Kuching, Sarawak.
• Colombia: Masterplan for Colombian coastal areas.
• Colombia: Masterplan for navigability of Colombian inland waterways.
• Poland: Flood risk management plans of Tuga River and Zulawy polder for Regional Water Management Board in Gdansk.
• Mexico: Design of a strategy and urban development plan for the municipality of Oaxaca/river basin; climate change adaptation and measures against (flash) flooding for CEA Oaxaca/Partners for Water
• Colombia: Masterplan and construction of a conceptual model for the restoration of a conservation corridor and sustainable use of the Cauca River system in its upper valley.
• Mozambique: Development of the water management chapter in the Urban Structure Plan for the Municipality of the City of Xai-Xai