James Dalton
Head, Water and Land Management
Photo: IUCN
Expertise: water, environment and development, water policy, water and climate change, food security, governance, resilience
Location: Gland, Switzerland
Language: English
Contact: Claire.Warmenbol, press
Dr James Dalton is the Head of IUCN's Water and Land Management team, in the IUCN Centre for Society and Governance. Previously, he was the Director of IUCN's Global Water Programme. He has worked on water resource management issues for the last twenty years. Prior to joining IUCN, James worked at the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SOPAC) in Fiji where he was the Integrated Water Resource Management Adviser to Pacific Island governments. Prior to this he was a water management and development consultant for ITAD Water, based in the U.K. but working internationally. He spent years working for consecutive DFID Senior Water Advisers in London as a consultant adviser.
He holds a Doctorate in Civil and Environmental Engineering focusing on groundwater management in the Aral Sea Basin. James has worked in over 25 countries worldwide, with extended periods working in the Pacific Islands, Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan, the Middle East, East Africa, and Eastern Europe.
