Andrew Segrave PhD

Andrew Segrave manages the ‘Public Design for Water’ Portfolio and he leads the scientific research into futures studies and strategy development at KWR. He is fascinated by how people conceptualise the future and how that affects behaviour, and he wrote a doctorate thesis on perceptions of time and the ‘foreseeable future’: the time horizon that people take into consideration in their decisions and actions. As a founder of the Dutch water sector’s joint horizon scanning platform (DWSI), Andrew works to extend the foreseeable future through social learning. Working with the steering committee of the Exploratory Research into trends, in the collective research programme of the Dutch and Flemish water utilities (BTO), Andrew ensures that the programming of knowledge agendas and innovation programmes is future oriented. He advises policy advisors, strategists and management boards in this area and designs and supervises scenario studies and strategy processes. At the national level, Andrew works with the Key Enabling Methodologies for (social) transitions (KEMs). In addition, Andrew has acquired experience in various European projects and he has worked internationally with organisations such as the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA). The knowledge implementation includes the establishment of water-oriented living labs.