Piet Dircke Mr. Dircke is the ARCADIS Global Leader for Water Management. He is Water Management expert by training and has 30 years of global working experience in urban resiliency, flood protection, water management, waterfront development and climate change adaptation and he is considered a leading global expert in these fields. He presented numerous times at major global conferences, gave hundreds of interviews to leading global magazines and papers (including Rolling Stone, National Geographic, NY Times, Time magazine, Wall Street Journal, Der Stern), and had about fifteen TV appearances including in the recent Emmy Award winning documentary on climate resiliency “The years of living dangerously”, directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger and James Cameron.
Netherlands. In 2014 Mr. Dircke was a reviewer of the Flood Safety Policy and Procedures of the Dutch Delta Program. He was a Professor in Urban Water Management at the Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences from 2007 till 2014. His research at the RDM Campus focused on waterfront development, climate resiliency and multipurpose flood protection in delta cities. He is part of Rotterdam’s global climate resiliency ambitions as co-author and editor on three “Connecting Delta Cities” Books, covering Flood Risk Management and Climate Adaptation Strategies in the Delta Cities of the C40 based CDC Network. From 2009 till 2013 he was the Chairman of Flood Control 2015, a 22 M€ program developing smart flood control systems.
SE Asia. In 2012 he lead several review, project definition and preparation missions to Indonesia preparing for the Master Plan Phase of the JCDS Jakarta Coastal Defense Strategy. He was also responsible for preparation of the Terms of Reference (TOR) for the establishment of the intergovernmental Program Management Unit (PMU) for Jakarta.
In 2013 he was responsible for the preparation of the TOR of the Delta Plan 2100 for Bangladesh, and he accompanied the Dutch minister for Infrastructure and Environment Melanie Schultz, on her historic state visit to Myanmar, launching a national IWRM Master Plan study for Myanmar. In Bangkok he supported a contractor JV in preparing a Conceptual Plan (10 Billion US$) for Flood Protection and Climate Adaptation for Thailand and Bangkok.
In 2014 he accompanied the Dutch minister for Infrastructure and Environment Melanie Schultz, on her visit to Indonesia and was member of the End of Project Review team for NCICD National Capital Integrated Coastal Development, Jakarta’s Giant Garuda shaped coastal urban development and flood protection Master Plan.
USA. Since Hurricane Katrina he has been one of the major Dutch representatives in knowledge exchange with USA on flood protection, water management and climate resiliency, in particular in New Orleans, San Francisco, Miami, Los Angeles and New York. In New Orleans he assisted the Us army Corps of Engineers in providing Hurricane Protection and coordinated the Dutch team for the Dutch Dialogues and the New Orleans Urban Water Plan. In San Francisco he is involved in a number of projects on sea level rise and water front development in the San Francisco Bay and the Bay Delta Area. In New York he was involved in the Rebuild by Design competition and works on a number of projects on community resiliency, flood protection and waterfront development in Manhattan and Brooklyn.