Brendan is Discipline Lead for Systems Thinking at Mott MacDonald and Technical Director for Integrated Water Management. He understands systems methods to be about joining up people and organisations for better collaborative working as well as being about joined up analysis. Previously, he worked on environmental governance for the UN and he coordinated the Food Water group at King's College London. He is currently coordinating a national initiative to standardise approaches to NbS with Ofwat innovation funding.