Nicola Chadwick joined IHE Delft in October 2023 as Communications Advisor. As a member of the Communication Office team, she is responsible for content creation and communications.
Nicola’s career has spanned publishing, translation, journalism and communications. As a language student at the University of Liverpool, she came to the Netherlands for one year at the University of Amsterdam. After graduation, she moved to the Netherlands permanently, where she started as an editorial assistant at a small academic publishing house. Later she switched to translating both in house and as a freelancer. Her passion for current affairs led her to Radio Netherlands Worldwide, better known as the Wereldomroep, writing on Dutch news and politics. After that she joined the Dutch government, working for the Netherlands Enterprise Agency. Here she became part of the team which rolled out the new NL Branding. Building on her knowledge of Dutch issues and society, she specialised in the water, maritime, circular economy and energy sectors. At IHE Delft, she hopes to further the mission to have real impact in water solutions.