Andrew Segrave PhD

Andrew Segrave is Manager of the Impact Division in the KWR Management Team. He is inspired by the transformative potential of socially engaged co-creation of knowledge and innovations. By developing KWR as the institute for transformative water science, Andrew aims to bring the many values of water to life. Water is, after all, essential to life itself. Together with KWR experts in programme coordination, project design and integration, Andrew is shaping the new Impact Department. Our work starts with the most pressing societal challenges, and specifically with their water-related dimensions. The Impact Division works with mission-driven, theory-of-change approaches and designs projects with knowledge use and societal value creation in mind. Our impact pathways are the routes through which knowledge and innovations are applied. These pathways depend on strong relationships between KWR and its stakeholder communities, both in the Netherlands and internationally. Strengthening and nurturing those relationships is a key focus of Andrew’s work.

Andrew’s background is in futures studies, strategy development, and place-based, transdisciplinary research for sustainability transformations. He seeks to make science more enabling, more reflexive, more responsive, and more action-oriented. His PhD research at the Delft University of Technology explored the foreseeable future of water professionals in Brazil, Japan, Ghana and the Netherlands. For Andrew, the quality of scientific theories and models depends strongly on both their empirical grounding and their practical applicability. He takes the initiative when he sees opportunities for development, for example by founding the Dutch Learning Alliance for Water Sector Intelligence, establishing a Scenario Planning Masterclass for regional water authorities, and creating the national Strategists Platform for Dutch drinking water companies. Andrew also serves on the Editorial Board of the scientific journal Futures Reframed: an open-access, peer-reviewed platform for futures thinking anticipatory studies and futures anthropology that explores how science could be.