Professor Chris Zevenbergen
Professor Chris Zevenbergen is director of the Business Development Department of DuraVermeer Group NV. and professor at the Water Engineering Department of UNESCO-IHE with a 0 fte appointment at TuDelft. He has a masters in ecology from the Agricultural University Wageningen and a doctorate in environmental engineering from the University Utrecht. He worked as a researcher on various environmental issues related to the building industry, such as environmental impact assessments, product development, emission modeling, testing procedures, building codes and guidelines in the 1980s followed by 10 years research and consultancy in environmental engineering and water management of urban systems.
In the past 14 years he has accumulated extensive national and international experience with integrated approaches to manage floods in urban environments. His research interest is specifically on innovative concepts to mitigate urban flood impacts, on flood proofing building designs and technologies and on decision support tool development in urban design and planning with practical application in urban flood management. He has a strong affinity with the ecological, socio-economic, institutional aspects of urban planning and water management.
He is co-founder and chairman of the European Network COST C22 on Urban Flood management and the Flood Resilience Group (FRG). He is member of the board of the Dutch Living with Water program, the Netherlands Water Partnership (NWP), the Cooperative Program on Water and Climate (CPWC), and the Dutch Delta Design 2012 (DDD), and he is member of the board of recommendations of Rotterdam Climate Proof and Alterra Wageningen UR University. In the past 20 years he participated in various technical advisory boards of governmental bodies and was invited speaker in many national and international conferences. He has published/edited 3 books and (co)authored about 100 papers, including reviews and book chapters. He is member of the editorial board of Journal of Flood Risk Management.
