Position
Global Leader Water Management
Piet Dircke is the ARCADIS Global Leader for Water Management and 100 resilient Cities platform partner. He was a Professor in Urban Water Management at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences till 2014 and co-author and editor on three “Connecting Delta Cities” Books for the C40 based CDC Network. He was involved in coastal resilience plans for the Netherlands, Bangkok, Jakarta Semarang and Myanmar.
Since Katrina he is one of the most influential Dutch representatives in knowledge exchange with USA on flood protection and climate resiliency, active in New Orleans, New York, San Francisco, Miami, Los Angeles, Pittsburgh and Norfolk.