Dr Daniel Zimmer has an engineering and hydrology background and is leading the Sustainable Land Use theme at Climate-KIC.
In this position, he developed a portfolio of innovation projects aiming to accelerate the systemic transformation of land use and food supply chains in response to climate change in both mitigation and adaptation areas. He gained an in-depth and broad experience of land management issues and potential solutions.
Previously, he was the Director of the World Water Council, where he developed a global experience on water-related issues spanning from research and engineering to finance and geopolitics. He connected science, policy and water experts in multistakeholder processes aiming to address the current water crisis and implemented high-level panels and political processes on adaptation.
He has also managed research teams in the environment sector and developed expertise on the environmental impacts of land use.
