Jaap C.J. Kwadijk

Deltares

Director of Science

My Profile

About

Jaap Kwadijk received his PhD from Utrecht University in 1993. Since 1997 he has been at Deltares (WL|delfthydraulics). His expertise is climate change, flood and water management and worked on these issues in Europe, Iran, Hong Kong, Mongolia, Bangladesh and Egypt, where he lived for two years. He was one of the founders of the Deflt-FEWS forecasting system, one of the most widely used forecasting systems in the world. Currently he is Director of Science of Deltares. Since 2012 he is also part time professor Climate and water management at the Twente University

Career Type:

Scientist/Researcher/Academic

Organization Type:

Research Institutes and Centers

Expertise Fields/Interests:

climate change, flood and water management

Major Achievements:

Technical Committees

Committee Name
Committee on Flood Risk Management
Committee on Fluvial Hydraulics

IAHR Position

Committee Name	Position	Start Date	End Date
Hydrolink Editorial Board	Advisor	2012-01-01	Now

My Papers and Presentations

Title	Year

My Videos

Title	Year
Jaap Kwadijk - Water Security is Indeed a Global Issue	2020

IAHR Awards

IAHR Awards	Date