Mathijs van Ledden

Mathijs van Ledden, PhD, is Director Flood Risk Reduction with Royal HaskoningDHV, specialising in the fields of hydraulic and morphological challenges in deltas around the world. He was located permanently in New Orleans between 2006 and 2010, and was project manager at the New Orleans District, assisting the US Army Corps of Engineers.

Van Ledden is involved as senior coastal and river expert in projects in the Netherlands and abroad. He also has a part time position at Delft University of Technology and is member of the United Nation Disaster Assessment and Co-ordination (UNDAC) system