Niels Vlaanderen

Niels Vlaanderen is Coordinator of International Water Affairs at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water Management in the Netherlands. He holds a degree in Economics from the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam (VU) and has 19 years of experience in the water sector. He has previously worked as an Economist for Rijkswaterstaat (part of the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment) and as a Senior Policy Advisor for the Ministry of Transport, Public Works and Water Management. Some of his recent research areas include water-related disaster risk reduction and exploring governance in transboundary cooperation in water and climate change adaptation.