James Dalton

Board Co-Chair
INTERNATIONAL UNION FOR THE CONSERVATION OF NATURE

Dr. James Dalton is Director of IUCN’s Global Water Programme after having first joined IUCN in 2009 as the Water Management Advisor. Before IUCN he was based in Fiji at the Pacific Islands Applied Geoscience Commission (SPC-GSD) as the Integrated Water Resource Management Adviser. As the Director of IUCN’s Global Water Programme, James is focused on working with a wide range of partners and stakeholders to advance water governance and management for people and nature.

Dr. Dalton is an irrigation engineer and holds degrees in rural development, science and politics, irrigation engineering, and a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering focussing on groundwater management in the Aral Sea Basin. He has worked on water management for 20 years in over 25 countries worldwide and sits on the governance committee of the Hydropower Sustainability Assessment Protocol, the Board of the Alliance for Water Stewardship, and as a Technical Advisor to the Climate Bonds Initiative. He is currently based at the IUCN Headquarters in Switzerland.