Speaker
Laurens van der Tak PE, D. WRE

Water Resilience Director for the Americas
Jacobs
Biography
Laurens van der Tak, PE, D. WRE
JACOBS
Laurens is Jacobs’ Water Resilience Director for the Americas. He is a water resources engineer with 33 years of experience addressing stormwater and water resource issues, including climate resilience and adaptation, green infrastructure, flood modeling, stormwater utilities, and water/wastewater master planning. He is Chair of AWWA’s Water Resources Sustainability Division. He has degrees from Cornell University, UC-Davis, and MIT.