Dr. William Veerbeek (1970) studied architecture at the Delft University of Technology and artificial intelligence at the VU University Amsterdam. He obtained his PhD from IHE Delft, then known as Unesco-IHE on the topic of urban growth driven future flood risk.
Dr. Veerbeek is one of the founders of the Flood Resilience Chair Group at IHE-Delft. He has a wide experience in area of urban climate adaptation in The Netherlands as well as internationally. His work was instrumental in the refinement of national flood impact assessment tools, which were tested in Dutch paradigm shifting projects like UFM-Dordrecht and Rotterdam-based projects in the Dutch Knowledge for Climate programme. He worked extensively in megacities like Beijing, Dhaka and Mumbai where his work focussed on the development of long term urban growth projections and subsequent changes in disaster risk. Strengthening IHE’s mission in capacity development, Dr. Veerbeek has been training many cities in climate adaption, especially in Southeast Asia. Currently he is developing a city-to-city learning network on green-blue infrastructure in the North Sea region.
Publications
A complete list of publications can be found in Google Scholar.