Julien Harou is Chair in Water Engineering at the University of Manchester. He has a PhD from the University of California Davis in water resources engineering and economics and an Master’s degree from Cornell University. Julien's group contributes globally leading research in water resources planning and management, water-energy-food systems, and environmental management software. He is research director of the $10M RCUK-funded FutureDAMS project, lead of NERC's Water Stewardship Portal project and a coinvestigator of NERC's UMFULA project. In 2010 he received a NASA Launch Innovator award for his group's contributions to water management and open software. Julien is an Honorary Professor at UCL.