Our water experts

  • Amidi-Abraham, Garshaw
    Senior Specialist, Climate Resilient Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Watershed planning and restoration, groundwater sustainability, geospatial analysis, nonprofit management, stakeholder engagement and outreach

  • Beaulac, Leah
    Manager, Climate Resilient Food and Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Sustainable water management; global food security and livelihoods for frontline producers; natural disasters and climate change; conflict, migration and refugee Responses; market linkages

  • Grimm, Robyn
    Senior Director, Climate Resilient Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Water management and policy; floodplain management and planning; interdisciplinary and multi-benefit decision support and analysis; operations and systems research; trade-off analysis; public finance mechanisms for water management

  • Hall, Maurice
    Senior Advisor, Climate Resilient Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Water management, water policy, hydrology, water resources engineering, aquatic ecosystems, sustainable agriculture, irrigated agriculture, water quality, natural infrastructure, civil engineering

  • Hayden, Ann
    Vice President, Climate Resilient Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Water policy, adaptive management and watershed resilience, strategic planning, stakeholder engagement, environmental markets, riparian and wetland habitat, river and delta systems.

  • Jackson, Brian
    Director, Western Water

    Areas of expertise: Ecosystems, natural infrastructure, community resiliency, stakeholder engagement, rivers and deltas

  • Kuzdas, Christopher
    Senior Manager, Climate Resilient Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Water management and governance; public policy; decision support; social-ecological systems; risk management; rural development and planning

  • McLaughlin, David
    Senior Economist

    Areas of expertise: Agricultural and Resource Economics, Environmental Economics, Public Economics, Econometrics, Causal Inference, Data Science

  • McLellan, Eileen
    Lead Senior Scientist

    Areas of expertise: Water quality, watershed protection and restoration, ecological resilience, land use planning, rural development, environmental policy

  • Moran, Kevin
    Associate Vice President, Regional Affairs

    Areas of expertise: Public policy, water law and management, coalitions, ballot campaigns and organizational leadership

  • Myatt, Mike
    Senior Director, Climate Resilient Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Water policy, water governance, coalition building, strategic planning, groundwater management, stakeholder engagement.

  • Osifeso, Nyasha (Nya)
    Manager, Federal Affairs

    Areas of expertise: Agriculture policy and water policy

  • O’Connor, Rachel
    Senior Manager, Climate Resilient Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Water policy and governance, water data systems, stakeholder engagement, coalition building, collaborative planning processes

  • Penny, Gopal
    Scientist, Climate Resilient Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Hydrological sciences, remote sensing, complex water-agriculture systems, resilience of social-ecological systems, causal inference

  • Puig-Williams, Vanessa
    Director, Texas Climate Resilient Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Water policy, water law, environmental law, groundwater management, conservation transactions, stakeholder engagement, endangered species

  • Rivera-Torres, Mariana
    Manager, Climate Resilient Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Water policy, transboundary water governance, groundwater, community development, facilitation and collaborative decision-making

  • Rodriguez-Flores, José M.
    Senior Analyst, Climate Resilient Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Hydro-economic analysis; multi-benefit land and water management; interdisciplinary groundwater analysis; resilient food-water systems analysis

  • Schiller, Anna
    Program Manager, Climate Resilient Water Systems

    Areas of expertise: Conservation biology, spatial analysis, groundwater management, land use planning