Dr Nigel Walmsley is a Snr. Project Manager at HR Wallingford with 25 years’ experience in water resource management, including climate change aspects. Through substantial periods based overseas in Africa, Asia, the Pacific, and elsewhere, he has gained experience of water resource planning and management decision-making frameworks in a range of country contexts. He is familiar with working in multi-disciplinary, multi-stakeholder teams to achieve common goals and has led and coordinated a range of specialist international consultancy projects, research programmes and capacity development initiatives in water, climate and development. Recent work has included the development of frameworks to integrate water security and climate resilience into development planning processes (Africa, Asia and the Caribbean), the assessment of climate impacts on water resource and agricultural sectors (Middle East), the development of water sector support programmes (Pacific), and building capacity in sustainable water resources development and management (Africa, Caribbean and the Pacific).