Leading Expert in Agricultural Water Management and Drainage Systems
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Wageningen University & ResearchDr. Henk Ritzema served as Associate Professor at the Water Resources Management Chair Group of Wageningen University until his retirement in September 2020. His distinguished career spans nearly four decades of expertise in water management and hydrology for food and ecosystems. After obtaining his MSc in Civil Engineering from Delft University of Technology in 1980, he worked internationally in Fiji, Kenya, and Egypt before joining Alterra-ILRI at Wageningen University in 1989. He earned his PhD in 2009 with his thesis "Drain for gain: making water management worth its salts" from Wageningen University and UNESCO-IHE Delft.