Andrew Segrave PhD

Andrew is Chief Strategist at KWR. (Re)Designing a fitting approach and leading visioning and strategy development, he works to achieve the mission of bringing the multiple values of water to life through bridging science to practice.

Andrew developed a portfolio on ‘Public Design for Water’ and leads the scientific research into future exploration and strategy development at KWR. He is fascinated by future scenarios and how they influence behaviour and has written a dissertation on time perspective and the ‘foreseeable future’; the time horizon that people take into account in their decisions and actions. As founder of the platform for joint horizonscanning of the Dutch water sector (DWSI), Andrew works on increasing the foreseeable future through social learning. Through the steering group of the Exploratory Research in the collective research programme of the Dutch and Flemish water companies (Waterwijs) , Andrew promotes future-oriented programming of knowledge agendas and innovation programmes. He advises policy advisors, strategists and management on this, and supervises scenario studies and strategy processes. At a national level, Andrew works with the key methodologies for transformative sustainability transitions (KEMs). In addition, Andrew has experience in various European projects and has collaborated internationally with, for example, the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). Part of the knowledge implementation is the setting up of water-oriented living labs.