Dr James DALTON

Director - Global Water Programme, IUCN

James joined IUCN in 2009 as the Water Management Advisor.  Previously he was based in Fiji at the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission as the IWRM Adviser.  He holds degrees in rural development, science and politics, irrigation engineering, and a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering focussing on groundwater management in the Aral Sea Basin.  He has worked on water management for 20 years in over 25 countries.  He sits on the governance committee of the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol, the Board of the Alliance for Water Stewardship, the Board of the Alliance for Global Water Adaptation, as a Technical Advisor to the Climate Bonds Initiative, serves on CDP’s Water Security Advisory Council and is a member of the Advisory Board to the Dutch Governments Valuing Water Initiative.  In October 2020 he was selected as a Member of the European Commission's Platform on Sustainable Finance.