David Tickner is Chief Freshwater Adviser at WWF-UK. He has spent the last fifteen years providing strategic leadership to river conservation projects around the globe and advising governments and companies on water management practice and policy. Dave is currently also a Research Fellow at the University of East Anglia and an Associate Editor of the journal Frontiers in Freshwater Science. Previously, Dave worked in the UK government's environment ministry and led WWF's conservation and policy programme for the Danube River. He was also a founding non-executive director of a not-for-profit co...