Dr. Marchand is an expert at Deltares (The Netherlands) in the field of coastal zone and flood risk management and has over 35 years of experience in the Netherlands and abroad. He has a scientific background as policy analyst/ecological scientist and wrote numerous papers and book contributions on flood vulnerability, tsunamis, environmental flows, coastal erosion management, coastal resilience and sea level rise. He received his PhD at Delft Technical University on an integrated modelling approach to coastal flood vulnerability assessment. Currently he is living in Hanoi as Country Director of Deltares in Vietnam.